Perfect knowledge comes from surrendering to perfect sources, not from imperfect speculation and challenge.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Mādhavānanda: Have you read the other cantos also? You read all the way up to the Fifth Canto? Mother: I read so much, you know, and I have four children—[indistinct] doesn't live at home—and I read so much that people probably wonder how I get my work done. But it gets done. [Prabhupāda chuckles] And it's like I'm in another world.
It's really great. I had a dream about you, Prabhupāda. And I dreamed... This is a dream that's coming true.
But you didn't acknowledge me because I didn't say "Kṛṣṇa." [Prabhupāda laughs] And then when I did, then you did, and you asked me what I knew about Kṛṣṇa, and I didn't answer you because I didn't want to display my ignorance. Prabhupāda: Very good. You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and be one of our members. Your son is also very good. Mother good, son good.
According to our Indian estimate, son acquires the quality of mother and the daughter acquires the quality of the father. Mother: I didn't understand. Pradyumna: You didn't understand? The son acquires the quality of the mother and the daughter acquires the quality of the father. So like mother, like son. Mother: When [indistinct] was living in the temple, I didn't tell Kim this, but he looked ten years younger than he does right now, so... Mādhavānanda: When he was living in the temple he looked ten years younger. I was thinking he should live in the temple again. Prabhupāda: Yes, that's a fact.
One clergyman, he asked me, "Swāmījī, why your disciples look so bright?" So that's a fact. Mother: All the devotees. Prabhupāda: Because they are spiritually enlightened. That is the cause of brightness. And materially involved—moroseness. Because it is ignorance.
Material life means life of ignorance, and spiritual life means life of enlightenment. That is the difference. Material life is called tama. Tama means darkness.
Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya. This is the Vedic mantra. "Don't remain in darkness." But people cannot understand. "I am living in the light.