Prabhupāda: Yes, certainly. Because from God's side there is always an attempt to make the people right. As soon as they're wrongly directed, some messenger comes, like Jesus Christ or Buddha or, before Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa. So what we are preaching, that is not new. It is God consciousness. And all the great messiahs, they came. But the thing is that people are changing in their different education mentality. So we have to present things in such a way so that intelligent person can accept the old teachings in the Western countries, like Lord Jesus Christ.
Either they're not being followed or they're not properly understood, because in London I saw hundreds of churches are vacant. That means it shows practical that people have no more interest in Christianity, or the Christian people could not convince them about the spiritual necessity of life. Many churches are for sale. That's not a good sign. That means people have lost interest in spiritual life. But fortunately, the younger generation, they are taking this spiritual movement.
Frenchman: (French)
Bhūgarbha: (translating) He asks: Lord Jesus Christ, when he came, brought a message of hope, of peace and confidence, not only in this life but also in the future life, life after death. He asks if Your Divine Grace would like to speak about what our conception this life after death is. He also asks that I translate at the same time as you are speaking. Is that all right?
Prabhupāda: So we are giving a message by which everyone can be happy in this life and next life also. Generally, all religious sects, they do not believe in the next life. Or even they believe, they have no clear idea of the next life.
Frenchman: (French)
Bhūgarbha: (translating) What is the present hope of the human society even beyond death?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Human society . . . a human life is an opportunity to stop all the problems of material life. So if he does not do so, if he does not understand or take to this business how to solve all the problems of life, then he's missing the opportunity. We are giving very nice idea what is next life, how we can elevate to the topmost spiritual planet, and how we can live eternally, peacefully, with full knowledge. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for all these purpose.
Frenchman: (French)
Bhūgarbha: (translating) He's asking. In society of today, the consumer society, with so many moral and social miseries, what is the message you can bring people even in this day?
Prabhupāda: Yes. By accepting this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement they will be moralist, they will be religionist, they will be first-class socialist, first-class politician. Everything perfect by accepting Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Frenchman: (French)
Bhūgarbha: (translating) He's asking . . . he's asking simply, "We have heard from the mouth of such a great master who has by his life exemplified the highest spiritual principles," and words like 'socialism' and 'spiritual communism,' he'd like to know exactly what this means.
Prabhupāda: Spiritual communism means that these so-called Communist, they are concerned with the limited thing. Just like Communists in Russia or China, they are thinking of their countrymen only. They are not thinking of others. Or they're thinking only the human beings, not of the animals. But our spiritual comm . . . communist means that we take care not only of the human being, but of the animals also. We don't think that the human being is only our own community. We think every living entity is within the community, center being God.