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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
BOB:  He can become rich through this means?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Oh, yes. Because Kṛṣṇa is all-powerful, if you pray to Kṛṣṇa to become rich, Kṛṣṇa will make you rich.
BOB:  If somebody lives an evil life but prays to become rich, he may still become rich?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. Praying to Kṛṣṇa is not evil.
BOB:  Oh, yes.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  [ chuckling ] Somehow or other he prays to Kṛṣṇa, so you cannot say that he is evil.
BOB:  Yes.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gitā ,  api cet sudurācāro bhajate mām ananya-bhāk . Have you read it?
BOB:  Yes. The Sanskrit I don't know, but the English I do.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Hm-m.
BOB:  "Even if the most evil man prays to Me . . . ?"
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes.
BOB:  ". . . He will be elevated."
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. As soon as he begins to pray to Kṛṣṇa, that is not evil. Therefore He is all-attractive. It is said in the  Vedas  that the Absolute Truth, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the reservoir of all pleasure— raso vai saḥ . Everyone is hankering after someone because he realizes some mellow in it.
BOB:  Excuse me?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Some mellow. Suppose a man is drinking. Why is he drinking? He is getting some mellow out of that drinking. A man is hankering after money because by possessing money he gets a mellow out of it.
BOB:  What does mellow mean?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  [ to Śyāmasundara ] How do they define mellow?