Numerous cheaters perplex Srila Prabhupada

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

The personal weapon used by Lord Krsna, the disc, is called hari-cakra, the
disc of Hari. This cakra is the wheel of time. It expands from the beginning
of the atoms up to the time of Brahma's death, and it controls all
activities. It is always revolving and spending the lives of the living
entities, from Lord Brahma down to an insignificant blade of grass. Thus one
changes from infancy, to childhood, to youth and maturity, and thus one
approaches the end of life. It is impossible to check this wheel of time.
This wheel is very exacting because it is the personal weapon of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Sometimes the conditioned soul, fearing the approach
of death, wants to worship someone who can save him from imminent danger.
Yet he does not care for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose weapon is
the indefatigable time factor. The conditioned soul instead takes shelter of
a man-made god described in unauthorized scriptures. Such gods are like
buzzards, vultures, herons and crows. Vedic scriptures do not refer to them.
Imminent death is like the attack of a lion, and neither vultures, buzzards,
crows nor herons can save one from such an attack. One who takes shelter of
unauthorized man-made gods cannot be saved from the clutches of death.
PURPORT
It is stated: harim vina mrtim na taranti. No one can save himself from the
cruel hands of death without being favored by Hari, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. In Bhagavad-gita it is stated, mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam
taranti te: [Bg. 7.14] whoever fully surrenders unto Krsna can be saved from
the cruel hands of material nature. The conditioned soul, however, sometimes
wants to take shelter of a demigod, man-made god, pseudo incarnation or
bogus svami or yogi. All these cheaters claim to follow religious
principles, and all this has become very popular in this age of Kali. There
are many pasandis who, without referring to the sastras, pose themselves as
incarnations, and foolish people follow them. Krsna, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, has left behind Him Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. Not
referring to these authorized scriptures, rascals take shelter of man-made
scriptures and try to compete with Lord Krsna. That is the greatest
difficulty one encounters when trying to promote spiritual consciousness in
human society. The Krsna consciousness movement is trying its best to bring
people back to Krsna consciousness in its pure form , but the pasandis and
atheists, who are cheaters, are so numerous that sometimes we become
perplexed and wonder how to push this movement forward. In any case, we
cannot accept the unauthorized ways of so-called incarnations, gods,
cheaters and bluffers, who are described here as crows, vultures, buzzards
and herons.

SB 5.14.29, translation & purport by Srila Prabhupada