Invite all to chant and taste prasadam; philosophy follows naturally as love for God develops.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pṛthu-putra: ...one thing they always like, when we don't explain to them too much the meaning of the chanting, they like the music. Prabhupāda: Oh. Well then that is all right. Pṛthu-putra: But when we start to explain the meaning, then they're a little bit suspicious, because they don't tolerate other type of religion. Prabhupāda: No, no, why...? Let them chant and take prasādam. This preaching, that's all.
Later on, when they're little advanced, then talk of philosophy. Otherwise there is no need of philosophy. If they are, some of them, educated, they can read the books voluntarily. But general process is anywhere, any part of the world, you simply give them chance of chanting and take prasādam.
That will be peaceful. Devotee (1): Prabhupāda? Is it possible to see the box of films now?[?] Prabhupāda: Hmm. Pṛthu-putra: Because I went to some universities. They have big, big universities in Cairo and in every places in North Africa, because now they try to be educated. The white Africans, they have some intelligence to understand to a certain extent philosophy.
Because when I was talking about the Bhagavad-gītā, when I showed the table of contents, they more or less agreed to take interest in it because they didn't see anything specific about another religion, another God. They were seeing the titles like "Confidential Knowledge," "Transcendental Knowledge," "Karma-yoga," "Jñāna-yoga." They are very interested about knowing these things. Prabhupāda: That is good. The first, beginning, let them come. Let them sit down, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and take prasādam.
In Iran we are doing that. Gradually it is becoming interesting. You had been in our Iran, Tehran? Pṛthu-putra: I went there also some time, a long time ago. But Iran is a different concept.
They're not so strict about following the Koran. For example, these Arabic countries like Algeria, Libya and Egypt and Tunisia, they don't recognize Iran like being part of them. Iran and Turkey and Afghanistan they think is another Muslim world. For example, in Iran there is much more Sufis, the different...
But in these Arabic countries like Egypt, they're really conservative. They're very strict. Prabhupāda: Yes. Conservative means fanatical. Pṛthu-putra: Fanatical, yes, that's the word. So my idea, when I went there...