As an example of truthfulness he cited the story of the disciple of Gautama Muni, who was once asked by the Muni, "Who is your father?"
"He said, 'I do not know.'
"'Go to your mother.'
"He went to the mother. Mother said, 'Oh, my dear son, I do not know.' He was a prostitute's son.
"So he came to Gautama Muni and said, 'Sir, my mother does not know, I do not know.'
"So he said, 'You are a brahmana. Because you don't keep any secrecy, you are brahmana. I'll initiate.'"
"So it is not the birth, but the quality-truthful. But these qualities will come when you make him a devotee. So this process should be taken, how to make him a devotee. And the easiest process of making devotee is let them come to the temple, chant Hare Krsna mantra and take prasadam. Then gradually they'll become. I began this movement on this. Very simple. And they have come. I never asked them to study Vedas in the beginning. What they'll read Veda? What do they know? But if you take this process it will be very quickly successful. And then literature; I never gave them literature. I have got about 80 books. Not that in the beginning I asked them, 'Come here and read books.' No. 'Chant Hare Krsna and take prasadam.' Now they are interested in reading books, in publishing them, in selling them and everything. They are doing everything. So if you take the authorized program, it will be successful. Otherwise, it will not be successful."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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