Journalist: Oh, you're on vacation. You have tickets to the ball game?
Hayagrīva: No.
Journalist: Oh. What the heck. I come all the way down here, and you can't get me a ticket to the ball game.
Hayagrīva: Ohio State. Yes, they're playing the game here.
Journalist: Do you think?
Hayagrīva: I know. That Rose Bowl game.
Journalist: Yeah, I would feel that you had not attained that level of being out of it yet that you wouldn't know that. I really think I've asked most of the questions that I want to ask. I really sort of knew the answers—the ultimate of the answer, that is. I can't really think of much else to say or to ask.
Have you anything that you'd like to say that may be of some kind of revelation to me or to our readers, or something that . . . you know, what you're really saying, there's no easy way out. (laughs) If man is to attain any goal in his quest for fulfillment, he's got to work at it, is really what it amounts to. So your message is really no different from that of Moses or Christ or any of the other great religious leaders. If people will follow the ethic of the Ten Commandments, and follow it, that's where it is.
Prabhupāda: We ask people . . . that. We don't say that, "You give up your this religion. You come to us." But at least you follow your own principles. And . . . just like a student. Sometimes in India it happens that they, although they have passed M.A. examination in Indian university, they come to foreign university to study more. So why does he come? To get more enlightenment.
Similarly, any religious scripture you may follow, but if you get more enlightenment here in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, why should you not accept it if you are serious about God? Why should you say: "Oh, I am Christian," "I am Jew. I cannot attend your meeting"? Why should you say: "Oh, I cannot allow you to speak in my church"? If I am speaking about God, what objection you have got?
Journalist: Well, I couldn't agree with you more. I'm sure you know, and I'm certainly aware, that it's only recently that, for example, a Catholic couldn't even come in here because of some other church. That's changed.
Prabhupāda: Now I have written one letter to Pope. You have seen that? (aside) Where is that paper?
Hayagrīva: It's in here.
Journalist: Oh, a letter to the Pope. Did he answer it?
Prabhupāda: I have not received any answer.