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“You do not know what is the meaning of Kṛṣṇa?” Prabhupāda retorted. “You do not know?”

Prabhupāda if he was happy with the way his movement had spread, and Prabhupāda replied, “Why shall I not I am not manufacturing anything. That is not my business.”

“Now it is not only not demolished, but it is standing there.”

Prabhupāda: “Do you think that you are not being taxed? Why should you not be taxed for the proper gain? You are being taxed for so many nonsense things. Why not be taxed for the proper thing? That is intelligence.”

“Not by the church,” said Prabhupāda.

Not only was Prabhupāda reminding his disciples that he hadn’t forgotten them, but he was also reminding them that they should not be absent from the guru-pūjā and worshipful thoughts of the spiritual master , even if he was not able to personally come before them.

“I do not see!” the man insisted.

“No,” said Ādi-keśava, “it is not logic.”

“Why not?” said Prabhupāda. “He is honoring you.”

Prabhupāda: “They are not bothering. They are educating. When a thief is advised, ‘Kindly do not become a thief,’ he takes it as botheration.

“So it is not that it will happen overnight?”

“But you have not seen that something,” said Tamāla Kṛṣṇa.

“You do not see, but can you hear?” Prabhupāda asked.

“You do not know logic. You have to learn logic.”

“I personally did not go with you,” said Śrīla Prabhupāda. “So how shall I believe? From the practical point of view, I did not go. It is just some news, so why should I accept it? So why shall we not believe the Vedic literatures? Vedic literature is so authoritative.

When you do not die although the body is destroyed, that is healthy life. Actually, everything is not finished, but people are kept in that ignorance. They think the body is finished and then everything is finished, but that is not the fact. Kṛṣṇa very clearly said, na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin.* If you do not question, then how is it possible

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “How we are living if our diet is not good? You do not know what is good food, but the result you have to know. If the cow says, ‘You are not eating sufficient like me,’ is that logic?”

But Jesus Christ did not explain more to you because you are rascals. You cannot follow even his one instruction, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ It is not the foolishness of Jesus Christ.

“No, it is not like that. The quality of the people will be changed.”

* People do not know that their highest self-interest is Viṣṇu. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.5.31)