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Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes. [Laughs.] And a real physician says, “You cannot do this. You cannot do that. You cannot eat …

“Oh, let us take advantage!” You see? So the rascals advise people, “You are God – everyone is God. You …

People like this. “Oh, simply by fifteen minutes’ meditation I shall become God, and I have to pay only thirty-five …

We cannot bluff like that. We say that if you actually want spiritual life, you have to follow the restrictions. …

Journalist: This kind of thing has disenchanted an awful lot of young people.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: So please try to help us. This movement is very nice. It will help your country. It will …

Journalist: Authorized by whom?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Authorized by Kṛṣṇa, God. In India this Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy has millions and millions of followers – eighty …

Journalist: Do you really think, from a very practical standpoint, that your movement has a chance to make it here …

Śrīla Prabhupāda: From what I’ve seen it has a great chance. We don’t say, “Give up your religion and come …

Journalist: Well, I couldn’t agree with you more.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: I am prepared to talk with any God conscious man. Let us chalk out a program so that …

Journalist: Right you are.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: That is our test – you have to develop love for God. We don’t say that you must …

Journalist: Have you seen pictures of a smiling man with a mustache and a pushed-in nose? Before he died, he …

Śrīla Prabhupāda: He was God? He was another rascal. Just see – this is going on. He was making propaganda …

Journalist: [Laughs.] No, I don’t think I would.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: These rascals! The people are accepting them as God because they do not know what God is – …

Journalist: It’s just absolutely absurd that somebody comes along and tells you he’s God.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But whoever accepts him as God is just as much a rascal. The man who says he’s God …