Practical Training Attracts Intelligent People

0:00[Several devotees conversing about doctors and hepatitis before Prabhupāda enters, offer obeisances]

0:00Prabhupāda: You can make little chewra.

Practical instructions for temple service

2:49Pālikā: Same way Hari-śauri is making?

3:18Prabhupāda: Hmm.

3:18Pālikā: Same. Turn it off? Or on? Hari-śauri: It's on now, Śrīla Prabhupāda. It's on.

3:52Prabhupāda: On. Hari-śauri: That priest was very responsive. It's very nice. He wanted to become student. Hari-śauri: [laughs] He was becoming very enthusiastic. He was very enlivened.

4:09Anyone with a little intelligence, as soon as you begin to speak to them, they, immediately, they become so much enlivened.

4:17He's obviously..., he's had some idea about organization and whatever, but he's never seen it practiced. And now he's come here and seen it practical. Yes. This is practical training. That is wanted.

Spiritual education and religious leadership

4:50Simply theoretical knowledge... That is helpful, but training, that is the greatest need, that we have to create a set of first-class men. Then the world will be all right.

4:50That is an attempt of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, to make first class, ideal. Why they'll be attracted? They are seeing that "The priests are doing the same thing as we are doing." So how they will be attracted?

5:22Therefore Christianity is failing. They are also having the meat, illicit sex, drunkard—and they're priest. Hari-śauri: They've watered down so much, there's no value left to what they're doing.

5:36They're exactly the same as a man in the street, except he says he believes in God and the man on the street says he doesn't believe. And they have no ability to convince a man that God exists.

5:48They have no scientific knowledge or whatever. Simply by the position = "I am Cardinal," "I am Pope," "I am priest," "I am that." How long it will go on?

6:00Hari-śauri: It's not going on very much longer anyway, there's so many... It's falling apart. There's so many branches.

6:11Just the fact that there's so many divisions now of Christianity, that this man was speaking about this charismatic movement. Now this is the young people.

6:17They're feeling a need for God, so they're trying to express it through another concocted form of Christianity. But that will also be a failure. Let us try honestly, that's all.

Preaching standards and travel plans

6:40Hari-śauri: As long as we can preach very purely, then the effect will be there. So by this time, we shall be in Toronto tomorrow. Hari-śauri: Yes. Three quarter... 5:45 the plane leaves.

7:17So we'll be there by 6:00, 6:40, something like that. They don't have a garden there, though. Time difference the same? No time difference? Hari-śauri: I don't think so. Oh, we'll have to go through Customs though.

7:37It's Canada, so we have to travel through Customs, what have you. We require passport? Visa? You've got? Hari-śauri: I think so. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja already has it sorted out.

7:58My U.S. visa allows me to travel outside the country and come back in unlimited amount of times.

Acquiring facilities for spiritual centers

8:12I don't... [laughs] In Toronto also, one boy there was telling us that the priest that was selling that church, he said that he would rather burn it down than sell it to us.

8:26But because this Indian man bought it for us, then we were able to get it. Ah, yes. It was sold to somebody else. But because it is an old church, the government municipality would not allow to break it.

8:50Then the man who purchased, he was obliged to sell to us. Hari-śauri: That's an exact duplicate of the situation that happened in Melbourne.

9:02That place was sold to a property developer, and then the National Trust put a classification on it, so he was not able to break it down, and neither could he utilize the extra space in the yard for building flats, because the Council would not allow him.

9:21So then we... They wouldn't... Originally they would not sell to us. Same thing here. Nobody would purchase it on account of this black quarter. Nobody was purchasing, ready to purchase.

9:40Hari-śauri: So Kṛṣṇa is saving some very nice places for us. That is Kṛṣṇa's trick.

Transcending cultural and material designations

10:21[chuckles]

10:21Everyone talks of this, "We Eastern, we believe in this," and "We Western, we believe in this." You remain peaceful, everyone. Everyone is thinking like this. We have no such thing, Eastern, Western. It is fact.

10:48For everyone, it is good. Eastern, Western, we don't take. Several times, this question... I talk..., I spoke in the American Embassy in Calcutta.

10:58They gave me the subject matter, "East and West." So I, in the beginning, I began to speak that we have no such dual, East and West. Hari-śauri: Hmm. Needs a higher consciousness. If she can make samosā...

11:52Hari-śauri: With the chewra. No, chewra may be avoided. Samosā. One will be enough. Hari-śauri: Either chewra or samosā, or both? No. Either of them. Hari-śauri: One or the other. Yes. But I shall prefer samosā.

12:11Hari-śauri: Oh, I'd better go down before she starts, then. [end]