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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
[“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”] “Because it has been offered to Me with devotion and love”—that is required. Therefore we do not allow anyone to cook who is not a devotee. Kṛṣṇa does not accept anything from the hands of a nondevotee. Why should He accept? He is not hungry. He does not require any food. He accepts only the devotion, that’s all. That is the main point. So one has to become a devotee. Not a good cook. But if he is a devotee, then he will be a good cook also. Automatically he will become a good cook. Therefore one has to become a devotee only. Then all other good qualifications will automatically be there. And if he is a nondevotee, any good qualifications have no value. He is on the mental plane, so he has no good qualification. [ There is a long pause in the conversation. ]
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  And the time?
ŚYĀMASUNDARA:  Six o’clock.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Questions and answers are required. They are beneficial to all.
BOB:  I still have a question on the  prasāda .
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Sūta Gosvāmi says:
munayaḥ sādhu pṛṣṭo 'haṁ 
        bhavadbhir loka-maṅgalam 
        yat kṛtaḥ kṛṣṇa-sampraśno 
        yenātmā suprasidati
[“O sages, I have been justly questioned by you. Your questions are worthy because they relate to Lord Kṛṣṇa and so are relevant to the world’s welfare. Only questions of this sort are capable of completely satisfying the self.”] Kṛṣṇa-sampraśnaḥ, that is very good. When you discuss and hear, that is  loka-maṅgalam , auspicious for everyone. Both the