Bhaktijana: Kṛṣṇa takes the, er, takes the spiritual matter from the food and leaves us the physical matter?
Prabhupāda: No. He takes, He takes . . .
Bhaktijana: When we offer up . . .
Prabhupāda: . . . when He takes, He does not take anything material. He takes spiritual.
Bhaktijana: And leaves the material for us . . .?
Prabhupāda: No. That is also spiritual. That is not material.
Bhaktijana: What's left, then?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Bhaktijana: What's left when Kṛṣṇa takes . . .?
Prabhupāda: That is spiritual. Unless it is spiritual . . . just like . . . first try to understand how it is spiritual. Of course, in our gross vision, we see, "Oh, we offer this cāpāṭi to Kṛṣṇa, and Swāmījī said namo brahmaṇya devāya, and it becomes spiritual." Yes. It becomes spiritual. How?
That we have to understand by the result. Phalena paricīyate. If you eat this spiritual food, you'll get spiritual strength. That is practical. Just like I'll give you another example: milk. You take more milk preparation, you get diarrhea. You go to a physician, he'll say, "Yes. Today you take only yogurt mixed with little salt and black pepper."
Cured, diarrhea cured. Now, you can say: "The same milk?" But it is treated. Therefore it cures. You can say: "Oh, the same milk? Yogurt is also milk." But it is treated. Therefore it cures. So you'll find that your material disease is being cured by spiritual foodstuff. That is practical. Therefore it is spiritual.
Woman: Uh, does belief in any scripture, or . . . any scripture whatsoever, such as the Bible or Koran . . .?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Woman: Does belief in any scripture . . .
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Woman: . . . lead to salvation?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, certainly. Certainly. Yes. The same thing, just like I have given example several times, that pocket dictionary and the big dictionary, both of them are dictionaries. It is not that because it is small pocket dictionary, therefore it is not dictionary. It is also dictionary.
So when he's advanced and finished pocket dictionary, he may consult the big dictionary. That is the difference. Bible is not different from Bhagavad-gītā, but when one is perfectly conversant with Bible, he'll understand more nicely Bhagavad-gītā. It is not contradictory; it is helpful.