Allen Ginsberg: Now, for instance, in America many of the black people are tending toward Allah and toward Muhammadanism.
Prabhupāda: That is another thing. Somebody is inclined to some thing, somebody is inclined to some thing. That is going on, and it will go on till the end of the creation. (laughing)
Allen Ginsberg: Yuga.
Prabhupāda: But our process is that you are searching after the center; here is the center. That is our proposal.
Allen Ginsberg: But what do you do when different religious groups claim to be the center? What do you do when different religious groups . . .
Prabhupāda: No, we welcome every religion. We don't decry any religion. Our point is the love of Godhead. Or Kṛṣṇa is love, all-attractive. So we want to be attracted by Kṛṣṇa. Just like a magnetic force and iron: unless iron, it is rusty, it is automatically attracted by the magnetic force.
Similarly, we are contaminated by material coverings. So we are trying to make it dust . . . rustless so that immediately we shall be attracted. This is the program. Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive. That is a fact. And we are attracted. But, being covered with this rust, we are, instead of being attracted by Kṛṣṇa, we are being attracted by māyā. This is our whole program.
So our central program is how to love Kṛṣṇa, or how to love God. So we want to see—that is the Bhāgavata definition—that how much you have enhanced your love of God. You call "Kṛṣṇa" or something else, that doesn't matter. Phalena paricīyate. The result. Your religious principle, what is the result? Are you enhancing your love for God or dog? That you want to see. If you are enhancing your love for God, it is all right. We don't say anything. And if . . . people should learn how to love. That is the perfection of life. That we are teaching.
Allen Ginsberg: If you're identifying love, however, with the sabda "Kṛṣṇa," what of those people who identify love with the sabda "Allah"?
Prabhupāda: If that śabda, of course, identifies with God, we have no objection. That Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, that nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis (CC Antya 20.16, Śikṣāṣṭaka 2).
God has many names. God is attractive, His name is also attractive, because He's not different from His name. So if you have got exactly the same attractive name, we have no objection. We simply say, "You chant God's name, holy name." Then you become purified. That is our program. We don't say that you change your Christianity. No. We don't say. If you have got a nice name, all-attractive name, in your scripture—don't manufacture, but authorized—then you chant that. We simply request, "You chant."