Purify yourself first through Krishna consciousness; then you can convince others of spiritual truth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Second Talk with Bob Cohen [Brahmatīrtha dāsa] — February 28, 1972, Māyāpur 720228TA-MAYAPUR [89:45 Minutes] Talk-PQPA_720228TA-MAYAPUR [loud loudspeaker with Giriraja giving lecture in background]
Prabhupāda: You are feeling warm? Bob: Just tight.
Prabhupāda: Too tight. Bob: I was cold before. [break] Thank you so much for allowing me to ask my questions.
Prabhupāda: No, that is my mission, that people should understand the science of God. Because I am convinced that it's a fact, that without again cooperating with the Supreme Lord, our life is baffled. I give this example many times. Just like a screw from the machine fallen down, it has no value.
The same screw, when it is again attached with the machine, it has value. Similarly, we are part and parcel of God. Without God, as part-and-parcel small screw, what is the value? No value.
We should again come back to the position of becoming a screw. That is our mission. Bob: I met a fellow today who came in the afternoon. Well, his reason for coming, he said, you may find humorous, was to come..., he heard the hippies were in Māyāpur.
Prabhupāda: Huh? Bob: He heard that hippie... [break] ...I was talking to him, and then some devotees were talking to him. And he had said some things to me which I could find no answer for.