Everyone has faith; the question is whether we surrender to science or to Supreme Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[morning walk is a drive in car, due to rain] Prabhupāda: The prisoners... Haridāsa Ṭhākura was very well known, so all of them assembled and offered him respect. Haridāsa Ṭhākura blessed them, "Stay in this condition." [laughs] So they were surprised, that "We offered respect, and the blessing is that 'Stay in this condition.' " Then they were explained, " 'Stay in this condition' means your attitude to offer respect to a Vaiṣṇava." That was the intent, [chuckling] not that "You stay in the prison house." Viṣṇu, Vaiṣṇava, offering respect... [break] ...ārādhanam. When Pārvatī inquired from Lord Śiva what is the best form of worship, he advised, viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param: "Oh, to worship Lord Viṣṇu is the best form of..." Then he said, tasmāt parataraṁ devi tadīyānāṁ ārādhanaṁ [Padma Purāṇa]: "And greater than viṣṇor ārādhana, Viṣṇu worship, is to worship tadīyānām, anything in connection with Viṣṇu." Anything...
That is Vaiṣṇava. Just like we are worshiping tulasī, tulasī plant. Why tulasī plant? It is a plant only, not even human being.
Tadīyānām. Because tulasī is liked by Kṛṣṇa. Tadīyānām. Similarly, anything in connection with Viṣṇu, to worship, that is better than Viṣṇu worship. Kīrtanānanda: King Pratāparudra, he got the clothes of Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Kīrtanānanda: Caitanya Mahāprabhu sent some cloth to King Pratāparudra, and he worshiped it just like Viṣṇu. Prabhupāda: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Hari-śauri: Oh, I've got a handkerchief here, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: Viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param... [japa] [break] ...philosophy is very, very difficult, undoubtedly. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye [Bg 7.3]. Therefore I wrote that poetry, that "How they'll understand?" Kīrtanānanda: Does that mean difficult to understand or difficult to practice? Prabhupāda: It is very difficult to...
Sarva-dharmān—everything to give up, except Kṛṣṇa, it is very difficult. Sarva-dharmān. They are proud if they are little rich. And America is very proud.
They are trying to accumulate money, and we are trying... We say, "Give up this nonsense." Is it very easy thing, that "For Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we shall give up everything, our attempt to earn money"? Nobody will accept it. "Our industry, our trade, our opulence—everything we shall leave?" But the meaning is that.
Yes. Who will take it? Jñānīs, yogīs, the same thing—"Oh, I am so... I am great yogī.