Jyotirmayī: Mr. (indistinct) has made very good progress, because before he was always teaching impersonalist Bhagavad-gītā, and now you see he is wearing a dhotī, he's coming to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, he's coming for Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam classes, and he teaches personalist Bhagavad-gītā. But he still thinks a little bit that maybe above there is something impersonalism. But there is good progress. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate (SB 1.2.11). Brahman, Paramātmā... He understands English?
Devotee: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Brahman, Paramātmā, and Bhagavān, last stage. First realization impersonal Brahman, then localized Paramātmā, and then Personality of Godhead.
(Jyotirmayī translates into French)
Yogeśvara: Jyotirmayī, perhaps you can explain what Mr. Priest's qualifications are.
Jyotirmayī: Yeah, Mr. (indistinct) is a priest, and he has been for a long time in India, a Christian priest, and he was very glad to know what you are doing here. Kṛṣṇa consciousness was...
Prabhupāda: In India, where did you stay?
Priest: In Poona.
Prabhupāda: Poona, oh. How long you were there?
Priest: Twenty-five years.
Prabhupāda: Oh, then you are Indian. (laughter)
Priest: Half of my time, yes, I was in India, half my life.
Prabhupāda: Twenty-five years in a place means you domicile. Yes, naturally.
Priest: Did you come to Poona?
Prabhupāda: Once I went. One friend took me there. I stayed in that Gujarati hotel, near the station I think.
Priest: Yes, not far.
Prabhupāda: Poona is nice place. Climate is nice.
Priest: For studies it's a beautiful place, and particularly for Sanskrit.
Prabhupāda: Yes, there are many good scholars.
Priest: Many scholars, many institutions, and also the society is rich.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Maharastrian, they are educated, advanced.
Priest: How do you find your disciples here in Europe?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Priest: I shouldn't ask personal question.
Prabhupāda: No, it is not personal. It is..., Caitanya Mahāprabhu's cult is so nice that it can attract anyone.
Priest: It does, it does.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Not only here in Europe—in Africa, in Canada, in China, in Japan, everywhere. In, what is called, Philippines. We have got everywhere center—Australia.
Priest: In Bombay also you have got?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, Bombay just now we have got a very big place.
Priest: Yes.
Prabhupāda: And we are constructing a big hotel, strictly vegetarian prasādam. We are at Juhu quarter. (someone enters room) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. So you can give him a chair, this one. You can come forward here.
Bhagavān: You have been to India? You've worked there.
Priest: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes, he was twenty-five years there.
Priest: Twenty-five years.
Prabhupāda: He is Indian. (laughter)
Priest: I was... I mean I am still a bhakta of Kṛṣṇa, but not..., of the old tradition of Maharastra the (indistinct) of Pāṇḍarapura, Viṭhobā.
Prabhupāda: Vaiṣṇava.
Priest: (indistinct) Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa, that Viṭhṭhala, Viṭhṭhala. Viṭhṭhala, there is... So they are Vaiṣṇava.
Priest: And it's the main... (indistinct) center of Maharastra.
Prabhupāda: Yes, Pāṇḍarapura.