Philosophy awakens necessity for Krishna; cheating swamis offer only material illusion masquerading as spirituality.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — December 14, 1975, New Delhi 751214R1-DELHI [19:12 Minutes] Conv_751214R1-DELHI Bhāgavata: ...explaining to them the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and pure devotional service so that they may go back to home, back to Godhead, and become liberated from the realms of birth and death in this material world.
Prabhupāda: Is that all right, what he said? So, how to help them?
Devotee: First we give them the chanting, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Devotee: First we give them the mahā-mantra.
Prabhupāda: Mahā-mantra, one may not accept. Bhāgavata: We have to find the ways and the means by which we can make pure devotional service attractive to each living entity according to his particular...
Prabhupāda: Unless one feels necessity, why they will accept your proposal, "Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa"? How you'll make them feeling, "Yes, it is necessary"? That is wanted. Otherwise, anyone will say, some proposition, "You do this." Then why they will accept it?
Prabhupāda: Unless he feels that... That requires philosophy. If you say something dogmatic, why they'll accept? You say that "You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa," he'll say, "I have no interest.