Gurudāsa: Isn't brahmajyoti temporary in the fact that you can come back down to the earth? Back to the material world?
Prabhupāda: Brahmacārī?
Gurudāsa: Brahmajyoti.
Prabhupāda: No. Brahmacārī . . . (indistinct) . . . brahmajyoti means spiritual sky. This material sky means brahmajyoti is covered by material cloud. Actually, everything is brahmajyoti. Just like clear sky, but some portion of the sky is sometimes covered by cloud. Some portion only. The whole sky is never covered by sky. Similarly, some portion which is covered by this material atmosphere, that is called material world. That's all.
Actually, the original sky is spiritual. Original sky is full of sunshine, but the covered portion means we cannot see the sunshine. Covered portion by cloud means we cannot see the sunshine. And similarly, this material sky means where we cannot see the spiritual effulgence. That is the difference. Otherwise, even this material sky is also a spiritual sky. The spiritual sky is the original status. Yes.
Guest: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Yes, any question you can ask.
Guest: I have noticed when everybody touches their head to the floor. And this I find so disturbing . . . (indistinct) . . . another man and kiss their boots. I found that . . . (indistinct) . . . and to tell you frankly, I find it quite shocking, too, that people place their head on the ground before another man. And you are a man like that. You are a man of knowledge, and you're . . . (indistinct) . . . but yet I can't see the point of people touching their heads to the floor . . .
Prabhupāda: You have been asked to do that?
Guest: Nobody asked me, but I see everybody else does it.
Prabhupāda: Then why you are feeling so disturbed?
Guest: Because to me, people are people, and there's . . . no man is a God, and it's just appearing as if you were . . .
Prabhupāda: But as you are thinking that they should not, they are thinking that you should. (laughter) As you are thinking they should not do like that, they are thinking you must do that. Then what is it? Difference of opinion. Your vote is single and they are so many. So you have to follow the greatest majority vote.
Guest: Unless I am given a very good reason to do so . . .
Prabhupāda: No, I am answering your question. As you are thinking in that way, they are also at liberty to think otherwise. So you cannot encroach upon their thinking.
Guest: I will not do that.
Prabhupāda: So therefore as you are thinking that they should not have done, they are thinking you should have done. The real question is that they are following a system. So in that system, the spiritual master is offered respect in that way. There is a system. And they don't feel any uneasiness by doing that.
Guest: But if I were to enter politics and . . . (indistinct) . . . and suppose I were to attack some people who have actually the leadership of foreign powers or something like that, and a newspaper man would tell my opponents that that man has . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: Newspaper man has poor vision. He's seeing "Indian" and "American" and "Canadian." So his vision is poor. If anyone thinks that "This Swāmījī is coming from India, and the Americans or Canadians, they are offering their respect in that way," so he has to expand his vision in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.