Minimize sense gratification and develop steady devotion; become one moon rather than millions of useless stars.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Arrival Address — October 9, 1972, Honolulu 721009AR-HONOLULU [24:49 Minutes] Arrival_721009AR-HONOLULU [kīrtana]
Prabhupāda: [prema-dvani] Thank you very much.
Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. [devotees offer obeisances] [02:51]
Prabhupāda: So I'm very glad to see you again.
Prabhupāda: And I am still more glad to see that the deities are so nicely dressed and decorated.
Prabhupāda: The more we keep the deities nicely dressed and decorated, the more your heart will be decorated. This is the science. If you neglect the decoration of the deity, then your heart will be gradually blackened. Therefore on account of neglect of the deity worship so many dirty-hearted persons have left.
They had to leave. Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not want them to stay. This is the formula. bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛta-cetasām [Bg. 2.44] That is [indistinct]. Unfortunately, we do not read.