Prabhupāda: Guru is the representative of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore guru will also teach to surrender to Kṛṣṇa.
Scholar: From this movement, what has been . . . what is the plan, and what is the . . .
Prabhupāda: Everyone should become a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. That is the plan. That is the whole plan. That is stated: man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru (BG 18.65). Just like this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa, this is man-manā, always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. This Kṛṣṇa chanting means thinking of Kṛṣṇa immediately, man-manā. Mad-bhaktaḥ, there is in the temple, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity, they are worshiping.
Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī, they are regularly, according to the rules and regulations, from morning call to up to ten, there is worshiping method. Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru (BG 18.65): "Offer your obeisances. So then you come back to Me." That is perfection. They are . . . they do not know where they are going, either they are going to be cats and dogs. But here, by this process, you go back to home, back to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore this should be adopted. Why should you spoil your energy to become cats and dogs? This is it.
Scholar: And for real life . . .
Prabhupāda: That is real life. That is real life: to go back to Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise you do not know where you are going. After all, you're preparing for something next. But your energy is being spoiled because do not know. But if you become kṛṣṇa-yājī, always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, is it very difficult? Man-manā.
To think of Kṛṣṇa, to worship Kṛṣṇa, you are going to the temple, you're offering some prayers. That's all right. What is the difficulty if you offer the prayer to Kṛṣṇa? You have to do the same thing in a systematic way. Then mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām (BG 9.25), then you go back to Kṛṣṇa. Next life is to go back to home, back to Kṛṣṇa. That is perfection of life.
Scholar: Well, I think the Bhagavad-gītā also mentions that many ways lead to God.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Many ways, that is all right. But the best way He suggests, "Who comes back to Me." (chuckles) Many ways, there may be. You may go to hell, that is also another way. Therefore He says in the sixty . . . seven, sarva dharmān pari . . . "I have already suggested many ways. You give up, kick up all these ways. You simply surrender unto Me." That is the most confidential part of knowledge. So intelligent man should take it. And still if he likes many ways, let him do that. Let him go to hell. Who can check it? Yānti deva vratā devān pitṟn yānti pitṛ . . . (BG 9.25).
He has suggested. You can go to the higher planetary system, you can remain here, you can become cats, you can become dogs, you can become bhūta, ghost. You can become anything you like, but "If you become mad-yājī, if you become a devotee of Me, then you come to Me." Now it is up to . . . our position to make choice whether we are going to be a ghost, or become . . . going to become the associates of Kṛṣṇa. It is up to us.