Prabhupāda: Objection is that they will not be allowed to drink tea. That is objection. No cigarette, no even tea. They think it is impossible. All, they are Indian house. Eh?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: They live?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Some live upstairs.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Some live upstairs here. But all of these people who are living in this area have to move out.
Prabhupāda: And business?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Businesses, for now they can stay. They try to push them out, though, all the time. (break)
Prabhupāda: Sahajananda has written very frankly that, "All the svāmīs and yogīs, they are deriding Kṛṣṇa. You are the only person pushing on Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world, single-handedly."
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, that's a fact.
Prabhupāda: He has very much appreciated this effort. Everyone will do that. I am the single man speaking of God. Nobody speaks. All big, big leaders, politicians, philoso . . . who is speaking of God? We are stressing only God consciousness. As soon as you speak of God, "Oh, it is old-fashioned to bring in God. These are primitive. Now we speak of science. There is no God. That is very nice." As soon as you speak of God, "Oh, you are useless. You have no advanced knowledge."
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They are challenging, then, the authority.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They are challenging the authority.
Prabhupāda: There is no authority. And Vivekananda says: "You manufacture your own God, whomever you like. Even you can worship stool as God." They say like that.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But now the Indian government—if this is true—they are giving visas to the devotees, and that means they are favorable towards the movement more and more.
Prabhupāda: Yes. It may be due to my interview with Indira Gandhi. I appealed to her that, "No Indians are joining, and these European, American, they are helping me. And if they are asked to go away, then how shall I maintain the establishment? Indians are not coming." So they might have studied that, "They are not politician, and this movement . . . everyone will appreciate God consciousness. They are doing something," this consideration. Otherwise it is surprising. They have given three years.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes. It is very surprising.
Prabhupāda: It is very, very surprising.