Rāmeśvara: Now, sometimes in our mantra page in the beginning of the magazine we have photographs of people who are not living in our temples but who have been induced to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa—sometimes parents of devotees...
Prabhupāda: So these things can be discussed. Of course, I could not read. Those who have pointed out the defects, so let them come and then discuss.
Rāmeśvara: No, if there's some defect, it must be corrected.
Prabhupāda: So... No...
Rāmeśvara: But if it can be done without...
Prabhupāda: Whatever is there... They have pointed out some defect, so in the presence of them you discuss. Then I shall give my decision.
Hari-śauri: That should be done in front of Your Divine Grace?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Rāmeśvara: They should all come?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. So, Satsvarūpa, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa, you have said?
Rāmeśvara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: He's also. He has also pointed out... So altogether. Pros and cons.
Rāmeśvara: One point that was felt, not the specific defect, but a very general point, is that this magazine is being distributed by the hundreds of thousands to very ordinary people who go shopping in stores, housewives and so on.
Prabhupāda: No, still, we cannot make it a shopkeeper's magazine.
Rāmeśvara: No, of course, but the tone of the magazine, we felt, should be such that they can also feel that it is...
Prabhupāda: They may not feel. That cannot be.
Rāmeśvara: That is their thing.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Gold must be presented as gold. One may not be able to purchase. You cannot... To sell, you cannot make, adulterate gold with iron.
Rāmeśvara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That is not.
Rāmeśvara: What about the idea that "You do not have to move into a temple, give up your family and everything, but you can actually chant Hare Kṛṣṇa in your own home," that idea that "It is available to you..."
Prabhupāda: No, that chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa does not mean whimsical.
Rāmeśvara: No.
Prabhupāda: Offenseless, he must be properly initiated. It does not mean that he should not be initiated and chant. That is not the idea. You can... Must be initiated, either you are a gṛhastha or sannyāsī or brahmacārī. Not that without being initiated you'll whimsically chant and the effect will be the same. No. You must be initiated. Ādau gurvāśrayam. You must accept a guru.