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I mean I follow one or two. One or two I follow now.

Bob: Two or three.

“Some” means three, or two?

Bob: And pleasing Kṛṣṇa, then, is being a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.

Everything is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa because everything is generated by the energy of Kṛṣṇa and everything is the energy of Kṛṣṇa.

I went to America, for instance, but whether in America or India, I am the same man.

Is it material or spiritual?

Bob: Pleasing Kṛṣṇa.

Similarly, since we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, we cannot be happy without acting as part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. We are part of Kṛṣṇa; we must join Kṛṣṇa. And you can join Kṛṣṇa immediately by your consciousness, simply by thinking “I am Kṛṣṇa’s, Kṛṣṇa is

Bob: We are part of Kṛṣṇa.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: They have no tendency for going to the cinema or a nightclub. No.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Spiritual pleasure means the pleasure of Kṛṣṇa.

Bob: You mean by following the principles of Kṛṣṇa consciousness?

Bob: They implied that you cannot feel happy without Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But if you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, you will feel happy always.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: A devotee is one who is always pleasing Kṛṣṇa. He has no other business.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: No, you can stick to all the regulative principles, provided you take to the Kṛṣṇa

Bob: The devotees have told me that without consciousness of Kṛṣṇa all the time, you cannot be happy.

When you simply try to please Kṛṣṇa, that is spiritual pleasure.

It doesn’t matter whether you stay in America or India.