Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Three months. Utmost, six months. And we are losing five to six lakhs of rupees per year for this injustice. I have pointed out the government that "In America they give permanent residentship to so many Indians. I am also. I have got that blue card, formal residence in America. So why don't you give them permanent residence? They are my assistants." "No." This is our misfortune. I am preaching Indian culture all over the world, and I am bringing at least ten lakhs of rupees, foreign exchange, for my Indian activities, but there is no help from the government. This is our position.
Indian man (4): So now the government has changed.
Prabhupāda: But the machine is the same.
Indian man (3): It may be due to secular state. Maybe that also.
Prabhupāda: No, secular state it was . . .
Indian man (4): Secularism means it's opposed to religion.
Devotee (2): Different parties, different government.
Prabhupāda: No, no. We have to study the Indian constitution. It is defective, because by the same constitution our present Prime Minister was put into custody for nineteen months. And we are working on the same constitution. So the constitution itself is defective. Anything man-made will be defective.
Indian man (3): It will never be perfect.
Prabhupāda: Therefore I am insisting that "Take the instruction of Kṛṣṇa, you'll be perfect. Don't manufacture."
Indian man (5): You can't have that in authoritarianism. You get that in Delhi, where they feel that they are authority.
Prabhupāda: So become authority. That is . . . We said that. You become guru, authority. But you learn first of all as celā from the guru. And then you become guru. And without any learning, without any . . . how become a guru? That is going on. Everyone is self-made guru. That has to be stopped.
Indian man (5): I feel, in this country at least, the young generation, the present generation, absolutely has got no base, religious base. And . . .
Prabhupāda: Religious base is there. There is scriptures. But they are not being trained up.