Becoming Pure
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was somewhat difficult at first, then easy, and I had returned to—
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  No, you can stick to all the regulative principles, provided you take to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness process—otherwise it is not possible.
BOB:  Yes, this is it. I have—when I'm back in Bihar, and—um—my friends may say . . . We're sitting in the evening, and there's nothing to do but fight mosquitoes, and they say, "How about smoking some marijuana?" And I say, "Sure, there's nothing else to do," and then I sit down, and I enjoy myself for the evening. Now we did this, we got carried away, we were doing it every day and realizing we were hurting ourselves and stopped, but still on occasion we . . .
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  You have to live with us. Then your friends will not ask you, "What about marijuana?" [ Bob laughs. ] Keep the association of devotees. We are opening centers to give people a chance to associate with us. Why have we taken so much land [in Māyāpur]? Those who are seriously desirous—they will come and live with us. Association is very influential. If you associate with drunkards, you become drunk; if you associate with  sādhus , then you become a  sādhu .
ŚYĀMASUNDARA  [Śrīla Prabhupāda's secretary] : He can come and stay with you in Bombay.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes, you can stay with us in Bombay. But he wants friends with marijuana. That is the difficulty.
BOB:  Let me ask you about something else; then maybe I'll come back to this. I find that I think of myself too much, and this way I can't think of God so much. I think of myself in too many places. How can I forget about myself so I can