Navayauvana prabhu raised the point that people sometimes have the idea that first they must reach a materially comfortable position before they can practice Krsna consciousness. "On the material platform they are thinking, 'You have gotten so much, now you can afford to practice this. We cannot afford such practice.'"
Prabhupada said that they are thinking then that Krsna consciousness is a luxury rather than a necessity. "But why the Indians, they are not like the Americans?" he asked. "You find in India still millions of people will go to the Kumbhamela with torn cloth. They are not like Americans, riches. Why they take? Indian is well-known poverty-stricken. So why almost ninety-nine percent people, they are after Krsna consciousness naturally?"
He said it was a question of training and culture, and he gave the example of Aniruddha, Pradyumna's son. "This boy is taking three times bath, chanting Hare Krsna. It is training and culture. And if he is kept in this culture, in future he'll be great saintly person. Then he'll do everything automatically. He will deliver others. It is training."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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