Rāmeśvara: Śrīla Prabhupāda, for this GBC meeting, I understand one of the topics will be to discuss some things about Back to Godhead. So I wasn't here when you gave your instructions. So I was wondering if you could give me some idea what you want done, so I can also think about how to improve the magazine. Something is wrong in the magazine?
Prabhupāda: That . . .
Rāmeśvara: A few things in this last issue.
Prabhupāda: The thing is that you should not change abruptly without any sanction.(?)
Rāmeśvara: In the past I have sometimes asked you that we wanted to try to follow your example when you were first writing Back to Godhead, offering solutions to problems that people are currently bothered by, making the magazine contemporary and so on, rather than just giving them philosophy, but making it so that it can relate to their . . .
Prabhupāda: But we . . . Based on philosophy. You cannot go beyond the philosophy. Philosophy must be there. It cannot be changed. But we have to . . . You cannot change the wine. That should be the . . . So therefore, while changing, you can consult.
Rāmeśvara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That will be . . .
Rāmeśvara: Now, there has been a tendency that I have observed among the writers to try to use what they call outside information sources, like quoting scientists . . .
Prabhupāda: That, one cannot do it unless he is very expert in transcendental knowledge. This is not possible for kaniṣṭha-adhikārī.