In what respect is chanting Hare Krsna difficult? So many American boys and girls have already adopted it, and they are not feeling any difficulty. What is the difficulty there? There is no difficulty. So if people are actually thirsty–if they are actually thirsty–then they can adopt this system given by the Supreme Lord. But there is a thirst felt by many, many people for an alternative answer. Srila Prabhupada: To that I say that this Krsna culture is not something that many, many people can immediately accept.Īllen Ginsberg: Yeah. Our magazine is in English.Īllen Ginsberg: But the question is, Is the mode of life that you are proposing adaptable to many, many, many people? All our books are being published in English. We are translating, presenting everything in the English language. So, Your Divine Grace, my original question was, Is the complicated ritual and the Sanskrit language–are they going to keep people from accepting what you’re … It took place on May 12, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio.Īllen Ginsberg: O.K. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and the poet Allen Ginsberg.
Here we continue an exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. We simply say, ‘Please try to chant Krsna.’ We don’t say, ‘Why you are chanting Krsna like this?’ We never say that.