4 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

BOB: He can become rich through this means?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Oh, yes. Because Krsna is all-
powerful, if you pray to Krsna to become rich, Krsna will
make you rich.

BOB: If somebody lives an evil life but prays to become rich,
he may still become rich?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. Praying to Krsna is not evil.
BoB: Oh, yes.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: [chuckling] Somehow or other he
prays to Krsna, so you cannot say that he is evil.

BOB: Yes.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Krsna says in Bhagavad-gitd, api cet
suduracaro bhajate mam ananya-bhak. Have you read it?

BOB: Yes. The Sanskrit I don’t know, but the English I do.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Hm-m.

BOB: “Even if the most evil man prays toMe . . 2”
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes.

BOB: “. . . He will be elevated.”

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. As soon as he begins to pray to
Krsna, 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 sah. Everyone is hankering after someone because he
realizes some mellow in it.

BOB: Excuse me?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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 be-
cause by possessing money he gets a mellow out of it.
BOB: What does mellow mean?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: [to Syaémasundara] How do they define
mellow?

