Prabhupāda: Well, you are in my front. You are a soul. What is the difficulty? Everyone, you are all souls. You are in my front. Simply you are dressed only. Suppose you come in a dress. You are my friend. Do I see your dress or you? Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ. Vidyā-vinaya-sampanne (BG 5.18). You are reading Bhagavad-gītā. You know all these things. When you are learned, you won't see the dress. You will see the soul.
Indian guest (3): My real object . . . still, I want to . . . the chanting would be the primary stage, but it is not the stage that it will stay on all the time for a person who is really seeing the truth.
Prabhupāda: No. If you take this process, you will come to the perfectional stage very easily.
Indian guest (3): But do you agree or not?
Prabhupāda: What is that?
Indian guest (3): That chanting is not the stage you have to preserve all the time or practice all the time?
Śyāmasundara: That as you become as more advanced in spiritual life, your chanting drops away.
Prabhupāda: No. no, chanting is eternal. After you become perfect, you will also chant more loudly.
Indian guest (5): I have one question. Swāmījī, you accept Kṛṣṇa as the supreme glory . . .
Prabhupāda: I do not accept, the whole Vedas accept.
Indian guest (6): But in our Hindu religions, there are gods and goddesses. There are so many.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. That is for material purpose. Those who are after material benefits, they can worship different demigods. That is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā. That is the point. You are reading Bhagavad-gītā. You should note all these things. Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānā yajante anya-devatāḥ (BG 7.20). Those who are bewildered or lost of intelligence, they go to worship other demigods.
Indian guest (5): Basically we accept . . .
Prabhupāda: So those who are interested in spiritual salvation, they need not worship other demigods. But those who are interested for material profit, they can worship demigods. Yajante anya-devatāḥ. Karmaṇā . . . there is a verse. Just to have immediate result of material profit, the Vedas recommend, "All right, you worship this demigod, that demigod." So our concern is we don't want any material profit; we want Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we do not require to worship demigods.
Indian guest (7): But why not Viṣṇu?
Prabhupāda: Viṣṇu and Kṛṣṇa the same. Viṣṇu and Kṛṣṇa the same. Kṛṣṇa is viṣṇu-tattva.
Indian guest (7): Rāma and . . .
Prabhupāda: Rāma also. We worship Rāma also. Rāma, viṣṇu-tattva.
Indian guest (7): Because they are the incarnation of the Viṣṇu. The person Himself is the reincarnation of the Viṣṇu.
Prabhupāda: So whatever is . . . that is your conclusion. But Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya (BG 7.7). Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate (BG 10.8). So if we have to believe Bhagavad-gītā, then Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. That's all.