Journalist: Let me ask you . . . I have my opinion, but I want to ask you. Why do you feel that the younger people today are turning more and more toward the Eastern-oriented religions?
Prabhupāda: Because you have failed to give them satisfaction.
Journalist: You what?
Prabhupāda: You have failed to give them satisfaction. Your this materialistic way of life will no more satisfy them. There is a stage, in the beginning, when one is poverty-stricken, he may think that, "Money and woman and good apartment, good car, can give me satisfaction." They are after this. But after enjoyment, they see, "Oh, there is no satisfaction." Because matter cannot satisfy you.
So your stage is, in America especially, you have got enough for enjoyment. You have got enough food, you have got enough woman, you have got enough wine, you have got enough house. Everything enough. This shows that material advancement cannot give one satisfaction. The confusion and dissatisfaction is more in your country than in India, which is said to be poverty-stricken.
You see? But you'll find in India still, although they are poverty-stricken, because they are continuing that old culture, they are not disturbed. Yes. They are dying inch by inch, but still they are satisfied: "All right." You see? Why? Because they have got little tinge of spiritual platform.
So it is necessary now that people should take spiritual life. That will make them happy. There is no hope. All these people, they're in darkness. They do not know where they are going. They have no aim. But when you are spiritually situated, you know what you are doing, where you are going, what is your future. Everything is clear. You see?
Journalist: So I'll just follow up on this very briefly. In other words, you feel that the Western-oriented church, whether it be the synagogue or a church, has failed to present . . . would you say that it's message is not relevant, or that they have failed to present their message properly?
Prabhupāda: No. The thing is, these Western churches, just like Christianity, these gospels were spoken long, long ago to the primitive men. You see? Jerusalem. These people were living in desert, and they were not so much advanced. So at that time . . . of course, in Bible or in the Old Testament, the idea of God is there. That is all nice. But they . . . just like the statement, "God created this world."