Simple living, high thinking, and lasting values reflect a spiritual society centered on family, devotion, and genuine human happiness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: I have not done it, but I have seen it. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You learned everything by seeing. You said that you learned how to cook by watching your mother.
Prabhupāda: Sometimes I used to cook. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, for your family?
Prabhupāda: Our family. I asked my mother, "I'll do this, that." They'll allow, "All right." Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You said that sometimes you would be walking in the footpath, and you would watch those men cook there.
Prabhupāda: Not cook. Somebody's doing some artistic work. I'll stand. I'll see how they are doing.
Prabhupāda: Just like knitting. So I'll learn knitting by standing before. They're making some flower of wool, so I'll learn it. And do it at home.
That was my hobby. And similarly I learned how to worship Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: By watching. You watched your father?
Prabhupāda: Father and the Mullik's Thakurbhari. "I'll do." I'll ask my father, "Give me Deity. I shall worship." "Yes, take Deity." Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How old were you when you got your Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity?