Prabhupāda: So for attaining Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there are several stages. The first stage is faith or inquisitiveness. Just like you have come to me. This is the first stage, out of inquisitiveness or some faith that, "These people are teaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We have heard it is very nice. Let us see what it is." This is the first stage. This is the first stage. One should be inquisitive and have little faith or little respect for Kṛṣṇa consciousness: "It is very nice. They are speaking . . . doing nice work." This is the first stage. The second stage is that in the first stage, if you find it, it is interesting, then the second stage is to associate with us, to understand more. Just like we are having our classes three days in a week. We are having class morning daily, but for public we are holding classes in the evening from seven to nine in our temple. Perhaps you know. You have been yesterday there?
Interviewer: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So we are holding classes there and discussing on this book, having kīrtana, distribution of prasādam, food. It is very nice. There is no labor. Simply you come, you hear nice songs, you dance, you take nice food, you hear nice philosophy and you think over, and you may go home. We don't ask anybody that, "You press your nose like this, you make your head down like this, make exercise like this." We don't ask anybody. But people automatically like to dance with us. Although dance is labor, but they like it. So the next stage is to associate with us, to understand more and more. This is the second stage, to associate. First stage, faith and respect, and second stage, association.
The third stage, if by association one becomes serious that, "I shall become a regular student of Swāmījī," that is third stage. That is called initiation. Just like these boys. They are initiated. So in that stage they are guided by me. They follow strictly. Just like we have got, for the initiated students, we have got six . . . four principles. We do not allow illicit sex life. No.
We do not allow these boys or girls sex life without being married. Yes. This is one regulation. We don't allow them to take anything which is not offered to the Deity. So we offer to the Deity foodstuff—in grains, fruits, flowers, milk products, in that way—no meat, no egg, nothing of this sort. Simple food. They are nutritious. We prepare very . . . perhaps you have participated in our Love Feast in Sundays. Yes.