Mayavada philosophy creates atheism; human days are squandered chasing money while nights dissolve in sleep and sex.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 9, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750909MW-VRNDAVAN [16:54 Minutes] Walk_750909MW-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: [Hindi] Do you know this? [break] ...go somewhere, better go, at least four men. And when you read some knowledge, at least two men. But when you eat, one man.
Don't bring four men and two men. Then he will be hungry; you will be hungry. [laughter] So for advancement of knowledge, two men at least required, discussion—not that I am reading and sleeping also. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Just before coming here we were in Laguṇa Beach, and Gurukṛpā Mahārāja, Yaśodānandana Mahārāja, Paramahaṁsa Mahārāja, Viṣṇujana Mahārāja and myself, we got your new books, Caitanya-caritāmṛta. So we were reading constantly from early in the morning. We found it was very enlivening, the fact that we were reading amongst a number of devotees.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore it is called iṣṭagoṣṭhī, or discussion. Discussion does not take place alone. There must be at least two.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Dvabhyaṁ patanam. [Hindi] ...instruction... [Hindi] Either you speak in Bengali or in Sanskrit.
In Hyderabad, these Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were challenged by the people that "Bhaktivedanta Swami has gone to foreign countries, and he established so many Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa temple. What did you do? If you say that you disagree with Bhaktivedanta Swami—you worship demigods—so how many demigods' temple you have established?" They challenge like that. "If you say that you are worshiper of Lord Śiva, why don't you go and establish a Śiva temple?
You are sitting idly here." Indian man (2): And Śiva always worshiped Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: That is another thing. That is another thing. They, "If you believe that Lord Śiva is the Supreme, why don't you go and establish? Why you are sitting here and declaring jagad-guru?" Their purpose was that "Either you worship Śiva or Kṛṣṇa, it doesn't matter, but if you would have done something, that would have spread the Hindu conception of...