Association with devotees purifies; avoiding nondevotees' company protects the heart from spiritual pollution.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[conversation takes place on the train at the station, with cries of vendors, etc.]
Prabhupāda: "...prefer that I do not see the face of nondevotee." Hari-śauri: You quote that in the Nectar of Devotion.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Actually, yes. This society, modern, it is very painful to see even their face. They have fallen so much down that by seeing their face you become polluted.
Last night they disturbed so much. And they are happy.
Hari-śauri: Actually they're not happy, but they make a show of happiness.
Prabhupāda: No, they think they're happy. They think they are very happy. They're enjoying life.
Satsvarūpa: But we have to take the risk to go and see their face, to preach to them.