Prabhupāda: But generally the Christians, they are very much confident that, "All our sinful actions, that have been absorbed by Lord Jesus Christ, so we can do anything."
Nara-Nārāyaṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Therefore they say the Christian religion is very good. "Very good" means that Lord Jesus Christ has taken contract for absorbing all their sins, and they go on committing. Is that not idea in the Christian religion?
Devotee: Yes.
Lady devotee (1): They say all our sins have been washed away by the blood of Jesus. (break)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I know, Prabhupāda, that in Seattle you had me lecture on a newspaper clipping that in New Jersey they had opened up one home for alcoholic priests. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Five thousand . . . five thousand priests, they are suffering from alcoholic . . . (indistinct)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Plus here in India we see that the sādhus, they are taking gañjā.
Prabhupāda: Gañjā, yes. Not sādhus; rogues. Sādhu's description is there—bhajate mām ananya-bhāk. Fully surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, he is sādhu. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ (BG 9.30). He is sādhu. Api cet sudurācāro. Even one is found that his habits are not to the standard, but if he has unflinching faith in Kṛṣṇa and engaged in His service, then he is sādhu.
These sādhus with long hairs and gañjā smoking, they have no idea what is the ultimate goal. And those who come from Western countries, naturally they find out these are the sādhus, and they imitate. Hippies, they do like that, imitation. They do not know what is the philosophy, what is religion, what is sādhu.
Nara-Nārāyaṇa: The American hippies actually are following these sādhus. Certain persons, like Allen Ginsberg, have brought back impression that this is what the sādhus . . .
Prabhupāda: But they do not know that they are not sādhus, they are rogues.
Nara-Nārāyaṇa: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: Sādhu means devotee of Kṛṣṇa. That is sādhu.
Devotee: We are also opening up homes for habituated japa-mālā users, who are also intoxicated, but in a spiritual way. (laughter)