True spiritual advancement requires moral discipline and surrender, not cheap shortcuts or material comfort.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Press Interview — December 30, 1968, Los Angeles 681230IV-LOS ANGELES [77:58 Minutes] Journalist: ...and I spoke to him, and then he said we could have an interview, and... [break] ...Cosmos. It was formerly The New Cosmic Star...
Journalist: ...and we just changed the name for January, the first issue. The first issue just, well, it's out, coming off the printer today.
Prabhupāda: It is published every monthly?
Journalist: Monthly, that's correct. That's correct. And we cover Eastern religions. We did a feature article this month on Bishop James Pike, UFOs, astrology.
We have... You know Dr. Bode, Framroze Bode from the theol... He's with Manly Hall.
Journalist: You don't know Framroze Bode?
Journalist: Yes. He does an article for us next month. [break] But I spoke to Dan, and I told him that one of the things I would like to ask you, and I think that an awful lot of our readers, and an awful lot of people in the United States, are terribly confused with the many people who claim to be avatāras and who come from India to this country, one after the other, after the other, and they say... Prabhupāda: I can declare, they are all nonsense. Journalist: That's what... I wanted to...