Madhudviṣa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, aren't you presenting Kṛṣṇa consciousness according to time, place and circumstances?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Madhudviṣa: So what enables a person to do that?
Prabhupāda: No . . . but principle is that you try to understand that you are not this body. That is applicable in all time, all circumstances, all, for everyone. It is not that formerly one had to learn that he's not this body, and now that is not required. The same problem is there still. Arjuna, five thousand years ago, he was given lesson about this, that "You are not this body, you are soul." The same problem is now also for the foolish person, because the foolish person will always remain in the world, and the intelligent man is to teach him. This is fact always, without any consideration of time, space and circumstance. There will be certain class of men foolish, and there will be certain class of men who are intelligent. So the foolish man has to take intelligence from the intelligent man. This is perpetually truth in this material world. It is not time and circumstances changes this principle. There will be foolish men. Just like now we read, "Two classes of men are there always, the demons and the demigods." So at the present moment more demons. Two classes of men are there always, but at the present moment the demons, number of demons, are more, and number of demigods are less, because it is Kali-yuga.
Laguḍi: Śrīla Prabhupāda, does this possible . . . (indistinct) . . . to teach consciousness in Russia and the country who are in the unitary trust in the East? Like here in the West or America and Australia, in the . . .?
Madhudviṣa: His question is . . . he is . . . this boy is Yugoslavian, Yugoslavian, and he has done some translating of your Īśopaniṣad into Yugoslavian. So he is wondering, is it possible to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness in Yugoslavia?
Prabhupāda: Everywhere possible.
Madhudviṣa: And in other Russian . . . but these countries are all under Communist rule. It is very difficult in those countries.
Prabhupāda: Not difficult. Nothing is difficult. For the time being it is difficult, but in due course of time it will be very easy. Now who knew that in Europe and America or all over the world, Hare Kṛṣṇa will go on? Bon Mahārāja left the field, others left the field. You see? Other svāmīs, they came. They talked all nonsense, yoga, and this and that, nose pressing, eyes pressing—all finished. Now Hare Kṛṣṇa is going on. Now people, the nose-presser and eyes-presser, (chuckles) they are no more important. Is it not? Eh? Now our men go and challenge these rascals. And in New York they did it, huh?
Satsvarūpa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: And they are afraid of our troops. (laughter) They are afraid.
Madhudviṣa: One of those nose-pressers, he once was speaking, and he said: "These Hare Kṛṣṇa people, they like me very much. They always come to my lectures, and they sell all the books, all their books, and then they go away before I start to talk." (laughter)
Prabhupāda: "You go on pressing your nose. We make our business and go away." (laughter)
Madhudviṣa: He was speaking like that because our men go into the lecture dressed in disguise, plain clothes, and we are going in the audience selling books to everyone. They all get the book, and then, when he begins to speak, then we all turn around and go out.