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.