During Vraja Mandala parikrama, Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja told the visiting devotees: "I know which of you are writing 'prema' letters to each other. If you come to me and tell me about your problem of lust, then I will help you and save you from it. If you do not come and tell me, you will become more and more entangled in it, and you will go to hell. I know everything that is going on in your mind. If a Vaisnava does not know everything in your mind, he is not a Vaisnava."
Another instance took place in France, in the next year. During a class on guru-tattva, Srila Maharaja said, "Srila Rupa Gosvami has written, "Visrambhena gurau-seva." This means 'service to gurudeva with intimacy.' What is the meaning of intimacy? We can open our hearts to Gurudeva. In the West, if one goes to the bathroom, he may become naked at the time of taking bath. In Indian culture we don't do this, but now Indians are following the Westerners. Be that as it may, if you are seeing yourself in a mirror at that time, there is no harm if you are naked because there is no other person to see you. The mirror is not a person. Gurudeva should be seen in this way. He is like a mirror; meaning a bosom friend. We can open our heart fully and give it to Gurudeva so that he may read it. There is nothing to conceal from him. If you are concealing anything from him, it is duplicity: 'How are you?' 'Okay.' 'Any problem?' 'Nothing'. The disciple is not revealing that he is making love with a girlfriend or anyone else. The effect of this will be an atom bomb, although in the beginning it seems like nothing. One may think, "Oh, Gurudeva should not know all these things. Otherwise he will chastise me and make some problem for me. This neglect of Gurudeva will be like a hole in a needle that becomes large enough for an elephant to pass through. Don't do this."
Murwillumbah, Australia: January 24, 2001