Woman Interviewer: Is there conflict with other Eastern religions, and if so, how far is this spread?
Prabhupāda: There is no conflict at all. The conflict is between persons who are godless, who does not believe in God. Conflict is there. The conflict is not between East and West, the conflict is between the atheist and the theist. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, not that we are trying to replace something by Indian method to Christian method or Jewish method. That is not our policy. This is . . . in one sense, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is the postgraduate study of all religions.
What is the method of religion? To accept the authority of God. That is the primary principle of every religion, may be Christian religion or Hindu religion or Muhammadan religion. It doesn't matter. But people are becoming godless. That is the problem. They are thinking that, "There is no God. Nature is everything." That is their foolishness. They are unhappy for this godlessness. And as a result of this godlessness, the Communist party have sprang up, the hippies have sprang up, and so many other things will gradually sprang up. So there is no check. It is . . . the only check is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, if people are taught that he can be happy only by reestablishing his eternal relationship with God.
So our test of religion is how one has developed his God consciousness, or love of God. We do not accept any principle of religion as genuine if we see that the followers have no love of God but they have got love of matter. We testify the, I mean to say, bona fides of a religious principle . . . of course, in religious principle there is the teaching to become God conscious, to accept the authority of God, but because they are not properly taught, the followers are becoming godless, not only here, in India also. That is the position everywhere.
So our proposition is to make people God conscious. It doesn't matter what he is. Either he is Hindu or Christian or Muhammadan, it doesn't matter. And this Kṛṣṇa consciousness procedure is to raise or to develop love of Godhead. And as soon as he develops love of Godhead, then he becomes happy individually or collectively, because there is love. He wants to love somebody else, but he is placing his love wrongly. He is placing his love . . . even one has nobody to love, he is loving cats and dogs. So love is there, but he does not know where to place his love and be happy. This is the information: Kṛṣṇa.