Devotional service requires both firm engagement and self-control; overeating creates illness that destroys Krishna consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: People have got already very respect now for the... [break] You should maintain the temple. They already call it angrej [English] temple. But still people come.
But if you make a mleccha temple... Actually, [laughs] they can say like that, but still they come. But their awe and veneration may be disturbed..., may not be disturbed. That is management.
Hari-śauri: One of the things they haven't been able to criticize us for is our Deity worship.
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Hari-śauri: One of the things they can't criticize is our Deity worship, because it's a lot better than anywhere else.
Prabhupāda: But we are not above criticism. Hari-śauri: Oh, no, they criticize us for plenty of other things. Akṣayānanda: So many discrepancies. Even that does not mean...
Hari-śauri: That's one point..., that was one point in our favor, so we should maintain it.
Prabhupāda: The servant should be kept only when it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, everything should be done by us. Haṁsadūta: I understand that, Prabhupāda.