Sin obstructs God realization; purification through regulative principles and devotional service enables divine connection.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Jayādvaita: That should be finished in not more than one or two days. Viśākhā: Tell him this has to be turned over when it stops. Hari-śauri: If it runs out. Viśākhā: Yeah, it flops up.
Hari-śauri: Yeah, keep it there. Lekhaśravantī: Śrīla Prabhupāda, this is Father Kern and Father Scheuerman. Father Scheuerman is from this church across the street from the temple here. He came also tonight.
Prabhupāda: Yes, let him... Give one āsana. Ambarīṣa: There's another chair coming. There's another chair coming.
Prabhupāda: Give him āsana. Hari-śauri: Put a mat out, cushion. Priest: Thank you. [commotion in background, mic moving around while devotees bring seats] Scheuerman: This is just fine. Kern: We're happy the way we are. Scheuerman: I don't think I could quite sit too long like that.
I have to practice more. [break] Prabhupāda: We are habituated to sit cross-leg, like that. They have learned also. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa.
So people in general, they are now out of God consciousness. Is it not? Scheuerman: Yes, I would agree that in our society, that the consciousness of God is definitely on the wane. There's no question about that. We find it very, very difficult, I think, even to speak about the Lord God in the presence of people, because the ears are closed or stopped.
There's not a willingness to listen. Prabhupāda: Why the people have come to this condition, that they are not prepared even to hear about God? Scheuerman: I think..., I think that, perhaps... Prabhupāda: One priest in Boston, he issued one booklet, that "These boys, they're our boys, mostly they are coming from Christian or Jewish family. But before this movement, they were not coming even to the church, never inquired about God. Now they are mad after God." He issued one pamphlet like that. These boys. Scheuerman: Oh, you're referring to the young men right here, coming from Boston, that's what you're saying, I see.