Prabhupāda: Generally, we see now, especially in the western countries, they are working so hard. The master is wine and woman. That's all. Is it not? They have made their master wine and women. In Paris we see everywhere. On the street they are drinking and talking. In Germany also, I have seen. You have been in Germany?
Devotee: Amsterdam is the same way.
Prabhupāda: Amsterdam is a place simply for prostitutes.
Devotee: It is the center.
Prabhupāda: This is very prominent in the western country, which we are asking, that no meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex. These things are only thing enjoyable.
Satsvarūpa: They think if you eliminate those, there is nothing left to live for.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is Rāyarāma's statement. Yes. I am denying the bare necessities of life. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye (BG 7.3). Who will try for becoming perfect in this way? Very disappointing. But still, Kṛṣṇa is so kind that helping so many. They are doing actually. All right, keep it.
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: Lord Caitanya's program is so attractive that even...
Prabhupāda: That is the astonishment. In India, they give me credit this, that "How it has become possible that these European boys, American boys and girls, they have taken to this path?" That they are surprised.
Yogeśvara: We don't have a very good reputation in India?
Prabhupāda: Very good reputation that you have become perfectly Vaiṣṇava.
Devotee: No, he means the western people themselves.
Prabhupāda: "They must be cynic, crazy, another edition of hippies." Like that, they say like that.
Devotee: They think that... They won't allow even a westerner to marry their daughter, because the westerners have a reputation of marrying for a week and then flying away. So they think like that of the people. Even our own men, sometimes the Indian girls wanted to marry the brahmacārīs, the American brahmacārīs, but the parents would not allow because they said, "After you are married a week, he will just run away back to his country and leave you here." So they are thinking like that about the westerners, that they, the life is so fast.
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: Another brahmacārī saved.
Prabhupāda: One of our man has done so. You know that Rāmānuja? The Mexican boy?
Devotee: There's that boy in Bombay he married one Indian girl.
Prabhupāda: He is staying.
Devotee: Jagat-puruṣa.
Prabhupāda: He has not left as yet. But he can leave any moment. (laughs) No. He is not American. He is devotee. Therefore he is reliable. (pause)
Bhagavān: We have to arrange a few things.
Prabhupāda: What is the next program? Is there any program?
Yogeśvara: A big hall meeting.
Prabhupāda: Today.
Bhagavān: Tonight.
Prabhupāda: What time?
Bhagavān: 8 o'clock. You will be speaking around 8:30.
Prabhupāda: All right. (end)