Interviewer: Thank you, caller.
Caller: Thank you.
Interviewer: To join Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a total commitment, then, to your way of life.
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is total commitment to the way of life as it is prescribed in the Bhagavad-gītā, the science of God.
Interviewer: Must one renounce his present religion?
Prabhupāda: No, not necessarily. Religion is a kind of faith. So naturally, if you go to the higher standard of life, the stereotype faith does not act there. So this understanding, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is transcendental to all religious faith. Faith you can change. But this you cannot change.
Your constitutional position as part and parcel of God is never to be changed. You may accept a faith as Christianity or accept a faith Muhammadanism. That is a mental situation. But this is your actual constitutional situation, that you are part and parcel of the Supreme. That cannot be changed.
Interviewer: What happens in your temples? Do you have services, like other religions?
Prabhupāda: Yes, generally we chant this mahā-mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa, and then we deliver speeches from Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and then there are questions, we answer, and in that way the audience and the disciples, they become enlightened and they advance.
Interviewer: But there's no sermon, as we would know in other churches?
Prabhupāda: That is, you can call sermon, because there is prayer songs, and there is, I mean to say, recitation from scriptures.