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Srila Prabhupada:

"A layman cannot be a Spiritual Master, and if he becomes so then he will simply create disturbance. Unless one is a resident of Krishna Loka, one cannot be a Spiritual Master. That is the first proposition. You are correct when you say that when the Spiritual Master speaks it should be taken that Krishna is speaking. That is a fact."