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That is not perfection.”

“Kṛṣṇa’s name is not different than Kṛṣṇa. Do you understand?”

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

“Are you free not to become older?” Śrīla Prabhupāda persisted.

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

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

Hopkins: “So the deciding test as to whether one is a serious devotee or not is not only whether one

“It is not a free hotel for love-making,” Prabhupāda began, even before Gopāla Kṛṣṇa entered the room “Vṛndāvana is not a joking place. They must be serious for Kṛṣṇa, and I shall give them everything. There is not scarcity of money. There is scarcity of management. It is not simply a place for husbandless women.

“Why not?” Prabhupāda said. “What is the difficulty? I have consciousness. There is God. The questioners were not his submissive young disciples, and this was not Prabhupāda relaxed and sitting But some of the panel were not satisfied with his presentation. The moderator took up their cause.

“Sex life is not denied,” Prabhupāda said, “but one must take responsibility for sex life. So sex life is meant for simply begetting nice children, not for sense gratification. If it is in regulative form, the world may not become hell. Sex life is not denied. Sex life is not denied, but in a regulated form, so that you can get nice population and live very happily

Nothing new had developed; the deed still had not been signed.

“That coconut kacaurī – it was not cooked.”

“I did not say. But it may be.”

“But not all of the G.B.C. members are here to decide.”

“But here you have not been translating lately,” said Tamāla Kṛṣṇa.

“Do not touch politics,” Prabhupāda warned. “We are cultural and philosophy.”

“We can’t be happy if you are not there,” Kīrtanānanda said.

But we may not speculate upon the mind of the Ācāryas.

“That will not be possible for me in this lifetime. Is it not?”

“Otherwise,” Prabhupāda continued, “this is not bad. This is not bad.