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Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Now, nowadays coat-pant is very costly. If you can spend your money, costly dress, we have no objection. Then you have to earn more; you have to work more. Therefore we are simplified.

770111 - Conversation - Allahabad

Rāmeśvara: Many people think that if you become a Hare Kṛṣṇa you have to shave your head.

Prabhupāda: That is very good.

Rāmeśvara: But it scares them, and it keeps them from joining us.

Prabhupāda: No, you save so much barbers' expenditure. (laughter)

Hari-śauri: So much inconvenience for washing.

Rāmeśvara: These are misunderstandings that confuse people.

Prabhupāda: The whole life is misunderstanding, material life.

Rāmeśvara: But we want them to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. That's the main thing.

Prabhupāda: So why they are envious of us? When we live very nicely, they are envious, that "These people do not do anything, and they are living so nicely."

Rāmeśvara: They will not be so envious if they see that people who dress in Western style and keep their families and keep their jobs are also chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Then they will not be so . . .

Prabhupāda: We say . . . We say that, that we simply say, that "You change your consciousness."

Rāmeśvara: Not change your dress, but change your consciousness.

Prabhupāda: No, we never said. If you prefer that kind of dress, costly, you prefer it. But we are simplified.

Rāmeśvara: It's our choice.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Hari-śauri: As a person becomes more purified, then he'll simplify himself anyway. And if he really cultivates a desire to . . .

Prabhupāda: Now, nowadays coat-pant is very costly. If you can spend your money, costly dress, we have no objection. Then you have to earn more; you have to work more. Therefore we are simplified.

Rāmeśvara: Ultimately, it is the best thing.

Prabhupāda: If they want to come in that dress, come in. If you want, come in.

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-Jagadīśa: If someone who is well-off wants to become a devotee, shall we encourage him to give up all of his material well-being, or shall we ask him to instead put a temple in his house and encourage him how to make his house into a temple and make his whole family Kṛṣṇa conscious?
-Prabhupāda: And what is your material well-being? Everyone is going hundred miles for well-being. Is that well-being? Either they may go by motorcar or by train... And as soon as there is—what is called?—bottle-neck, they become very much disturbed: "How to go to the office?" Where is well-being?
-Rāmeśvara: Say the Christian religion... The Christian religion has millions of followers.
-Prabhupāda: But what is the meaning of these followers? They do not understand anything. Simply by rubber-stamp they are follower.
-Rāmeśvara: But if we can get a mass following, it is only possible by preaching to them little bit at a time.
-Prabhupāda: Yes. By your ideal life, ideal teaching, you'll get. This Christian or any religion, what is the use of that? It's not at all religion. It's simply rubber-stamp.
-Rāmeśvara: No. But if we had many people, then gradually we could help them become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
-Prabhupāda: Yes.
-Rāmeśvara: But I think they will all... One thing that scares people is that we ask too much...
-Prabhupāda: Oh, that is...
-Rāmeśvara: ...at the beginning. We are asking too much.
-Prabhupāda: Yes.
-Rāmeśvara: So if we ask just a little bit, then gradually we increase.
-Prabhupāda: No, little bit we say, that "You come, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and take prasāda."
-Jagadīśa: "And read our books."
-Prabhupāda: Suppose you are illiterate, you cannot. But you can do this—"Come here, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and take prasādam."
-Rāmeśvara: That is a big misunderstanding in America. People think that to be a Hare Kṛṣṇa you have to give up everything.
-Prabhupāda: That... Yes, you have to give up everything which is bad. Do you think drinking is very good?
-Rāmeśvara: (chuckling) No.
-Prabhupāda: So if I say, "You have to give it up," so what is the wrong there?
-Rāmeśvara: But they feel that unless they give up everything all at once, they cannot become members of the Kṛṣṇa movement.
-Prabhupāda: No, he'll automatically give...
-Rāmeśvara: Gradually he'll automatically...
-Prabhupāda: He'll give up.
-Hari-śauri: (train starts to move again) First thing is to begin the positive process. Then the negative process will follow along.
-Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. If he understands it is very nice to chant, dance and take prasādam, they'll give up.
 Rāmeśvara: Many people think that if you become a Hare Kṛṣṇa you have to shave your head.
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 Prabhupāda: So why they are envious of us? When we live very nicely, they are envious, that "These people do not do anything, and they are living so nicely."
-Rāmeśvara: They will not be so envious if they see that people who dress in Western style and keep their families and keep their jobs are also chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Then they will not be so...
+Rāmeśvara: They will not be so envious if they see that people who dress in Western style and keep their families and keep their jobs are also chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Then they will not be so . . .
-Prabhupāda: We say... We say that, that we simply say, that "You change your consciousness."
+Prabhupāda: We say . . . We say that, that we simply say, that "You change your consciousness."
 Rāmeśvara: Not change your dress, but change your consciousness.
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 Prabhupāda: Yes.
-Hari-śauri: As a person becomes more purified, then he'll simplify himself anyway. And if he really cultivates a desire to...
+Hari-śauri: As a person becomes more purified, then he'll simplify himself anyway. And if he really cultivates a desire to . . .
 Prabhupāda: Now, nowadays coat-pant is very costly. If you can spend your money, costly dress, we have no objection. Then you have to earn more; you have to work more. Therefore we are simplified.