Excessive material enjoyment blocks spiritual life; Krishna consciousness must remain life's central purpose.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — July 5, 1975, Chicago 750705MW-CHICAGO [29:18 Minutes] Walk_750705MW-CHICAGO [in car]
Prabhupāda: ...encouraging the professors. Brahmānanda: In Eastern Europe. Jayatīrtha: He's a graduate of Princeton University, a very big, big university. Brahmānanda: I think he was the president of his class.
Prabhupāda: He is president? Brahmānanda: Of his class. Jayatīrtha: He was the president of his class at Princeton.
Prabhupāda: Oh. [break] ...scholar. Distribution, he is right man. Jayatīrtha: Yes.
Sat's men are hand-picked. It takes a very special devotee to be able to speak with these professors intelligently.
Prabhupāda: Yes. [break] Jayatīrtha: At the library convention in San Francisco we had that booth there. So I went to see them, and they appeared very professional with their suits and wigs. Brahmānanda: Successful?
Prabhupāda: ...saṁsāre māyāra janeiya, moha janeiya, jīva ke karaye gāḍha. This māyāra vaibhava, this material advancement, a advancement of māyā. Big, big building, nice road, nice motorcar, nice... Surely it is material advancement, admitted.