Only bhakti-yoga grants eternal spiritual bodies; all material paths remain incomplete without devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: I know him, but I did not say anything.
Prabhupāda: No. When I went to America one gentleman here, Paramananda Mehra...
Prabhupāda: ...he gave me an introductory letter. Yes. So he received me well. In the beginning I was staying in his care.
But I did not say anything, but I knew everything.
Prabhupāda: I was his guest. He was receiving nicely. Of course, I was indirectly saying him that "You are not doing nice," but what more I could do? Yogi Amrit Desai: Yes. I just...
I have so much love for you, and I said I must come for a darśana. Prabhupāda: Thank you. Yogi Amrit Desai: I was telling to the devotees. I said you are... Prabhupāda: You are with Dr. Mishra? Yogi Amrit Desai: No, I'm not. I was telling all the devotees here, I said Śrī Prabhupāda is the first man who brought bhakti in the West, where it is needed most.
Because there they are so much in the head—thinking, thinking, thinking. This path of love is so profound. Prabhupāda: You see: if you present a real, genuine thing... Yogi Amrit Desai: It's very genuine. Prabhupāda: ...it will act. Yogi Amrit Desai: That is why it is growing so beautifully, because it is genuine. Prabhupāda: And it is the duty of the Indians to give them genuine thing. That is para-upakāra. Before me, all these svāmīs and yogīs went there to cheat them. Yogi Amrit Desai: No, they were afraid to give the truth, because they were afraid they will not be accepted. Prabhupāda: They did not know what is truth, [laughter] what afraid.