God possesses spiritual form; our material senses simply cannot perceive it, limiting our understanding, not His reality.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with Yoga Student and Other Guests — March 14, 1975, Tehran 750314R1-TEHRAN [28:44 Minutes] Conv_750314R1-TEHRAN Devotee: ...to chant the names of Nitāi-Gaurāṅga before we encourage them so much to chant the mahā-mantra?
Prabhupāda: No. Why not? Now, what is the difference, Nitāi-Gaurāṅga and Hare Kṛṣṇa? Nitāi-Gaurāṅga and Hare Kṛṣṇa, there is no difference.
Nitāi-Gaurāṅga is also nice. Whatever he finds convenient, let him chant. Yoga student: This country, which was..., once at one time followed the Āryan path of Zoroastrianism, which is now..., practices primarily Islam although having absorbed many of the original elements in it. Do you have a recommendation as to how people of this country might feel the grace of Kṛṣṇa, perhaps even within the forms of their own traditional practice?
Prabhupāda: What is that traditional practice? Yoga student: They're in... Apart from Zoroastrianism, the majority of traditional practice now is of Islamic, of the Shiite sect.
Prabhupāda: What is that philosophy? Yoga student: That involves the prayer five times a day...
Prabhupāda: Eh? Yoga student: That involves the prayer of three to five times a day of the Shias...
Prabhupāda: Prayer five times? Yoga student: Well, it's the Islamic prayer five times a day, but the Shias compress it to three times. It's the same prayer.