Guest (4): Will the Swāmī give another service in the Arlington Street Church at any time in the future?
Prabhupāda: Arlington?
Jadurāṇī: Are you going to be there again, he wants to know.
Prabhupāda: Arlington Church? Yes, I was there.
Guest (4): Will you be there again some time in the future?
Prabhupāda: That, if you arrange, I can go. I am at your service. I have dedicated my life for this. Whenever you call me, whenever you invite me, I can go anywhere. Why Arlington Church? I can go to any place. Because it is my duty to give you, to deliver you this message of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā. That is my duty.
Guest (5): Swāmī, what is oṁ?
Prabhupāda: Oṁ is the concentrated name of God.
Guest (5): Can one say oṁ instead of "Kṛṣṇa" and gain the same benefit?
Prabhupāda: Yes. But why instead of Kṛṣṇa? If one Kṛṣṇa is the same, why not Kṛṣṇa? Why stick to oṁ? Oṁ . . . Oṁ is formless, but Kṛṣṇa has got beautiful form, enjoying. And we are addicted to beautiful form. Why something (chuckling) which is not beautiful? Kṛṣṇa . . . Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, akṣarāṇām akāro 'smi (BG 10.33): "Amongst the alphabets I am oṁkāra."
So Kṛṣṇa says that "I am oṁkāra." So in one sense oṁkāra and Kṛṣṇa the same. But I can see Kṛṣṇa very beautiful and so many things, but I do not see in oṁkāra that thing. Therefore my preference should be to Kṛṣṇa. Why shall I stick to oṁ?
Guest (5): Thank you, Swāmī.