Prabhupāda: Anyway, this idea of society, of your culture, general mass of people, especially nowadays, it is very difficult. So if the leaders understand—yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhaḥ (BG 3.21)—then the common mass will follow.
Interviewer (3): Yes, but here in Mauritius, most of the people are of Indian origin. It is easy for them to understand Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Therefore I say the Indian, these leading Indians here, if they make a program, the common will follow. And everything is described in the Bhagavad-gītā, how society should be conducted.
Interviewer (3): But I think, Swāmījī, common men follow only svāmīs, not the leaders or the priests.
Prabhupāda: The idea is: the common men, they expect something, especially from India, that India has got some spiritual culture. So every human being is seeking after spiritual culture, but unfortunately, at the present moment they are doing something which is not very desirable, the so-called svāmīs and yogīs. I do not wish to describe them to you.
Interviewer (2): Does your haircut have any particular significance?
Brahmānanda: The shaving of the head is a sign of surrender to the spiritual master, and we leave the śikhā . . .
Prabhupāda: And keep the head light instead of unnecessarily burdened. In the Kali-yuga there is a symptom. It is stated in the . . . lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam (SB 12.2.6): "In the Kali-yuga people will think by keeping long hairs he has become beautiful." This is the mentality of this age. Lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam. You can write this. Lāvaṇyam means luster, and keśa-dhāraṇam means keeping hair.