Sannyasa is the consciousness of selfless service to Krishna, not merely the dress one wears.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Satsvarūpa: So the men would not buy their lunch from the meat-eaters. Prabhupāda: No, that is not our scheme. Our scheme is that pathyam auṣadha. Auṣadha means medicine, and pathya means diet. So in order to cure him from these material desires we shall give him medicine, hari-nāma, and diet, prasāda.
We have no such program to make him vegetarian. That is not our program. Yugadharma: I had one more other scheme with Dhanañjaya dāsa from Vṛndāvana. Dhanañjaya is making with this Spanish devotee from Spain, making... I have just seen last week these beautiful, beautiful Gaura-Nitāi mūrti, these Gaura-Nitāi Deities that he is making.
They are casting them in Vṛndāvana, and they are very, very beautiful. And Dhanañjaya has told me that you have encouraged him to sell mūrtis in the United States. Prabhupāda: Yes. Yugadharma: I would like to do also, set a large business up if the prasādam... Prabhupāda: It will be very nice. Satsvarūpa: Oh. Yugadharma: That would... Yes.
Prabhupāda: So you teach them that before Gaura-Nitāi, let them chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and take prasādam. Yugadharma: Yes. I would like to do this in Laguna Beach on the highway. Prabhupāda: And if you do this, it will be great service, great service. They can take Gaura-Nitāi at home. So let them offer vegetarian food to Gaura-Nitāi and then take it.
If you can introduce home to home, it will be great service. Yugadharma: Because it is a very arty community. They are very interested in art there, and bogus impersonalism. There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm in the gṛhasthas in Laguna Beach. Prabhupāda: No, if they chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra... Yugadharma: What I would like to do is make you very happy by doing this. Prabhupāda: That is yajña. Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ [SB 11.5.32].
This is the way of delivering them: Let them worship Gaura-Nitāi by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra or śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-prabhu-nityānanda. If not two, but one, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, and let them take prasādam. These two things will make them advance very quickly, the spiritual life. Yugadharma: Because they are very interested in these little figures. Prabhupāda: Yes. So if you can do that, it will be very nice. Yugadharma: How about Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa also? Prabhupāda: Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa not now. Yugadharma: Not now. Prabhupāda: No.
When they have actually advanced and initiated and following strictly the Vaiṣṇava principles, then Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. And Gaura-Nitāi, they can worship in any condition. Yugadharma: I would like also to comprise with Gaura-Nitāi mūrtis the very pakkā Indian artifacts. Prabhupāda: Yes. Yugadharma: Very nice. Prabhupāda: Yes. That will if they keep Gaura-Nitāi... Yugadharma: Like nice chāñcas[?]. Prabhupāda: At least if they see and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, that will make them advance. Chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra before Gaura-Nitāi will make them very quickly advanced in spiritual consciousness.