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taste for Krsna consciousness. Why aren’t these boys going to see the
cinema? Why don’t they eat meat or go to the nightclub? Because their
taste has changed. They hate all these things now. In this way, you make
progress. First faith, then association with devotees, then removal of all
misgivings, then firm faith, then taste, then God realization, and then
love of God, the perfection. That is first-class religion. Not some
ritualistic ceremony of ‘‘I believe, you believe.’’ That is not religion.
That is cheating. Real religion means to'develop your love for God. That
is the perfection of religion.

Mike Robinson: Thank you very much for talking with me. It’s been a
pleasure talking to you.

Srila Prabhupada: Hare Krsna.
