Richard: According to you, this is the only spiritual knowledge.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Richard: What you write about and have studied.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Richard: What would you classify, ah, other works, say, the Koran or the Bible or any other religious...
Prabhupāda: Well they are also aiming to this aim of life.
Richard: They are in the same aim.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.
Richard: But do you think they are successful?
Prabhupāda: They are successful if they follow the education. Just like Christ, he's speaking of kingdom of God. So if you follow Christ, there is hope that you go to kingdom of God. But if you don't follow, you simply rubberstamp, "I am Christian," then it is useless.
Richard: But there are other...?
Prabhupāda: Yes, they are of the same type.
Richard: Yes, but do they have any value as far as you are concerned?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, they have value.
Richard: Okay, that's what I was trying to get at.
Prabhupāda: There is value.
Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda meant that the other branches of knowledge outside of our...
Richard: Oh, yes, right, I wasn't talking about that.
Rāmeśvara: That was mis...
Richard: Right, I wasn't talking about a technical or secular knowledge at all. I was talking about other spiritual philosophies.