Satsvarūpa: It's not allowed in this country. It's illegal. It's against the law.
Devotee: It's against the law.
Nityānanda: No, it's a matter of . . . no one knows who is married or unmarried, but if you have . . .
Prabhupāda: That is not very difficult.
Satsvarūpa: Well, the other difficulty, you brought this up several years ago, was that the men who take many wives have to be very select. Otherwise men will be attracted to join our movement for sex life, having different wives.
Prabhupāda: No, no, unless our men are trained up, why you should allow to stay here and to marry? We want trained-up men, not third-class picked-up. We want men who will follow the rules and regulations and fully trained up. Otherwise we don't want. We don't want ordinary karmīs and . . . and if he agrees to be trained up, then we'll take. Otherwise, what is the use of bringing some useless men? He must agree to produce his own food, and work. Our rules and regulations, he must follow. Then it will be ideal community. Otherwise, if you bring from here and there some men and fill up, that is not good thing. This is a training institution, to become devotee.
Satsvarūpa: Everything we do, we don't hide it. We show the world what we're doing. I don't see how we could hide that one man had many different wives.
Prabhupāda: If you don't call wife, you can have. The law allows you to keep boyfriend, girlfriend. Then the . . . instead of calling "husband," call "friend." That's all. But, er, it is risky, and the man must be responsible to keep . . . to keep more than one wife by trained-up man is not disallowed.