Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa has many names. Kṛṣṇa has name Govinda. It is not three letters, it is more than that. Kṛṣṇa has so many thousands names. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta (BS 5.33). So therefore Kṛṣṇa advises for the beginners, "Just try to remember Me in this way—raso 'ham apsu kaunteya (BG 7.8): I am the taste of the water." The water you must be drinking twice, thrice, four times. So when you drink water, the taste satisfies your thirst. So if you simply remember, "This taste is Kṛṣṇa," that is Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Doctor: When you eat food, that also, the taste is Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: No, especially of the water. Kṛṣṇa is everything, but specifically He mentions, "The taste of the water I am." So you remember this.
Doctor: That's very interesting. So every time you drink water . . .
Prabhupāda: You can remember Kṛṣṇa. Where is the wrong, and what is the loss there? But you follow Kṛṣṇa's instruction. (someone enters) Yes, sit down. There is no difficulty to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. (microphone moves)
Doctor: Why do you tape record?
Hari-śauri: Everything Prabhupāda speaks we tape record, and then everyone in the world can listen.
Doctor: Someone said that the word oṁ is given to sannyāsīs, and it . . .
Prabhupāda: No, Kṛṣṇa does not say.
Doctor: It's not so.
Prabhupāda: "Someone," we don't take authority. "Someone." There are so many "someones." We don't care for them. What Kṛṣṇa says, we accept. That's all.
Doctor: But this Kaṭha-Upaniṣad praises oṁ.
- etad ālambanaṁ śreṣṭhaṁ
- etad ālambanaṁ param
- etad ālambanaṁ jñātvā
- brahma-loke mahīyate
Prabhupāda: Yes, Upaniṣad is giving lesson, counterpart of this material world. Because . . . just like you are stressing on oṁkāra because you do not give much importance to Kṛṣṇa. In the material world, Kṛṣṇa . . . they think Kṛṣṇa is one of the historical person. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam (BG 9.11). So Upaniṣad is teaching us in an indirect way about the importance of Kṛṣṇa. Upa-niṣat: to bring you nearby. Because you have got so many material conception, if we say that, "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead," you may not like it. Therefore . . . oṁkāra is Kṛṣṇa. So you are giving lesson on oṁkāra. Although Kṛṣṇa and oṁkāra is not different, but you'll not like Kṛṣṇa. In your present position you'll not like Kṛṣṇa's name.