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Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī explains pure devotional service in this verse from Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu [1.1.11

So, to reach the spiritual abode of the Lord, we must engage in pure devotional service to Kṛṣṇa.

conscious person has realized knowledge, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, because He is satisfied with pure devotional service

But we may not remember; that is another thing. In my last life, what was my body? I do not remember. So forgetfulness is our nature, but our forgetting something does not mean that it did not take place In my childhood I did so many things I do not remember, but my father and mother remember. So, forgetting does not mean that things did not take place.

Benford: I don’t not believe in God; I’m just not forming an opinion until I have some evidence.

Journalist: Well, “Thou shalt not kill” is obviously an ethic … and it’s timeless, and it’s valid. But man is not really interested—

Śrīla Prabhupāda: That means he has not seen all the species. He has not traveled all over the universe. He has seen one island, but he has not seen the whole creation. He has not seen all of them; he has not excavated the depths of all the planets. He has not seen everything, nor is it possible for any human being to see everything.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: That we shall not allow.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: They do not accept the soul?

Kṛṣṇa has not recommended this for nothing; it is not like that. Kṛṣṇa’s order has meaning. on our Hare Kṛṣṇa farms are giving more milk than other cows – because they are confident, “We will not It is not like these rascals, these so-called Christians, say: “They have no soul; they have no intelligence In other places they do not give so much milk. But on our farms they are very jolly. And they are confident, “We’ll not be killed.” So they are jubilant, and they are giving much milk.

Journalist: I’m not arguing with you. I couldn’t agree with you more. I’m in total agreement. “Thou shalt not kill.” “Thou shalt worship no other gods before Me.” “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.”

They are not really interested in religion. It is simply show-bottle. If you do not follow the regulative principles, then where is your religion?

Śyāmasundara: Do you mean that it’s not being practiced?

The transcendentalist thinks, “Ahaṁ brahmāsmi: I am not the body; I am not the mind; I am not the intelligence

But those who are not personalists cannot enter into the spiritual planets. They remain outside. The sunshine is not different from the sun disk. But still, the sunshine is not the sun disk. Those who are not personalists are placed into the brahma-jyotir as one of the minute particles.

Śyāmasundara: Because he was not fulfilling the aims of the people.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: This is not only pessimism, but evidence of his poor fund of knowledge. He did not have perfect knowledge, nor was he trained by a perfect man.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But in Moscow we have seen that not everyone is satisfied. One boy who came to us was very unhappy because in Russia young boys are not allowed to go out at night

Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is being spread so that you do not forget your cultural life. We do not say that you stop your business and become a sannyāsī like me and give up everything. We do not say that. Nor did Kṛṣṇa say that. You should not say that. You must fight.” That was Kṛṣṇa’s instruction.

Devotee: But still I’m not convinced. If we make geological investigations all over the world, not just here and there, but in many parts of