Meeting with Father WallaceSrila Prabhupada concluded: "If anyone can understand God consciousness that is a great profit for us. Now our appeal is to everyone, every religious sect, that people are becoming Godless generally at the present moment. So we should make a combined effort to revive their God consciousness. Otherwise it is doomed. And there is no question of Christian God or Hindu God or Muslim God. God is one. So there should be no difference between the system."According to the time and circumstances, there may be a little difference, but really, if we can understand God, either through Christianity or through Hinduism or Islam, that is our profit. That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje. That is first-class religion, following which one becomes a lover of God. So you become a lover of God. That we want to see. It doesn't matter whether you go through Christian religion or Mohammedan religion or Hindu religion or Buddhist .. It doesn't matter. You understand God and love Him. This is our mission.""I agree entirely," said Father Wallace. "And it's good that we're coming more to understand that. And I think you see a lot of young people who really are longing for some form of contemplation and prayer. That is why you get followers.""Yes," said Prabhupada. "Now, these boys are coming from your Christian group, Jewish group, but they are taking to Krsna consciousness. One priest in Boston, he issued one pamphlet stating that 'these boys are our boys, and before this movement, they didn't care to come to the church. And now they are mad after God.' How is it? The same boys. How they have accepted?"Father Wallace: It satisfies the longing in the heart that one has for God.Prabhupada: Yes.Father Wallace: It's like Augustine said: "The heart is restless until it rests in You, our God."After enjoying some prasadam, Father Wallace rose to leave.Father Wallace: Thank you very much.Srila Prabhupada: Hare Krsna, jaya.Father Wallace: Thank you. We will pray for one another.Srila Prabhupada: Yes.Father Wallace: God bless you.Devotees: Hare Krsna.- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
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