Prabhupāda: Why? Why I shall be in contact, Aurobindo?
Swiss man (1): Because he's . . . well known in Europe.
Prabhupāda: He does not know better than Kṛṣṇa. So one association is sufficient. There is no need of going this Aurobindo, Saurobindo.
Swiss man (1): Because he wrote on the Veda and . . .
Prabhupāda: We never . . . why should we waste our time? We have got sufficient education in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. First of all let us finish these hundred books of four hundred pages. Then we shall see what Aurobindo writes. We don't think anyone can speak better than Kṛṣṇa. That is admitted. Aurobindo was . . . Aurobindo, Vivekananda, they started talking something in the Western world hundred years ago. But not a single man became Kṛṣṇa devotee.
Yogeśvara: (French conversation) They wish to thank you very, very much for your kindness in receiving them.
Prabhupāda: And I thank you for your coming. (chuckles)
Yogeśvara: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. (aside) Give this flower. Thank you.
Swiss man (1): And God bless you.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. (guests leave) These Aurobindos or Vivekanandas and Gandhis, they have spoiled Hindu culture. Vedic culture they have spoiled. Hodgepodge writing, hodgepodge speaking, dry speaking, speculation—choked up the progress of Vedic civilization. Now here is some hope. People are now taking it. Now did I say wrong that, "Why shall I go to Aurobindo?"
Nitāi: You never say wrong. (laughs) All of your answers were right. It's great.
Prabhupāda: I have got better instruction than Aurobindo. Why shall I go to Aurobindo, waste my time? He could not know anything. Nobody has become a devotee of Kṛṣṇa in reading Aurobindo's literature. And here, as soon as they saw our literature, immediately police officer said: "Oh, you are so high." Immediately. Where is the record, the professors and universities eager to purchase Aurobindo's book and Vivekananda's books? There is no record. But here they are eager: "All sixty books, please, sir." "All twelve books, please, sir."
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Why are they so attracted to humanitarianism?
Prabhupāda: That is false pride. This has been taught. In the Christianity they have taught like that, giving medicine, open hospital. That is Christianity.
Yogeśvara: He admitted it himself. He said himself, "It's a false pride to think . . ."
Prabhupāda: That's all.