Perfect devotional practice, not mere book knowledge, transforms a preacher into an authentic teacher of Krishna consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — April 22, 1972, Tokyo 720422R1-TOKYO [26:05 Minutes] Conv_720422R1-TOKYO Prabhupāda: harer nāma harer nāma harer nāma eva kevalam [Cc. Ādi 17.21] What is that, that... [indistinct] the Deities?
Prabhupāda: śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānāśṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau [Śrī Śrī Gurv-aṣṭaka 3] Wherefrom we got this? Sudāmā: Tamāla Kṛṣṇa sent these from Los Angeles three years ago. Cintāmaṇi: They stayed in the closet.
Prabhupāda: So who will paint? Sudāmā: Cintāmaṇi will paint.
Prabhupāda: So take note. So eyes are all right. Eyes are all right. It is all right.
Simply you have to..., all the hairs to make black up to the... It is all right? Cintāmaṇi: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Then His hands should be red. Cintāmaṇi: What about this? She's holding?
Prabhupāda: She holds the sārī, skirt. She holds some cloth. Sudāmā: Some cloth.