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Indian guest: “But not necessarily food.”

“You’re not joking then?” Upendra asked.

“Oh, no,” Janārdana replied, “not yet.”

“Not by the church,” said Prabhupāda.

One of the devotees present, not understanding Prabhupāda’s point, remarked that since Prabhupāda was Prabhupāda replied that he was not encouraged to write when his manuscripts were not being published.

He also said, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ One shouldn’t imitate the īśvaras. No, we should not imitate the powerful controllers. That priest said also that the Bible does not say, ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ but ‘Thou shalt not murder. So I told him that if the word is actually ‘Thou shalt not murder’ in the original Hebrew, then Jesus He could not answer.”

“That is not very good.” Śrīla Prabhupāda shook his head. “Sometimes you may have to chastise your child, and you should not be chastising your guru.”

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.

Moderator: “But you’re not in London yet.”

“I do not see!” the man insisted.

Prabhupāda: “But because you are rascal, you do not know that you can become more happy – go back home That you do not know.”

“Renunciation is not artificial,” said Prabhupāda. “It is a process. Like sometimes in a health club there is artificial swimming, is it not? Artificial swimming is not actual swimming, but it is to practice.”

“No, he says,” Tamāla Kṛṣṇa went back to reading the text, “even God could not create them, because He did not know the technology involved in making them.”

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: “So is it correct to say that if we are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, then if it’s not the gṛhastha

“Why not? You are a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.”

Prabhupāda: “So they are doing that or not?”

Devotee: “No, they’re not even following regulative principles.”

Moderator: “Not to search for it with them.”

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

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