When all five - cows, brāhmanas, women, children and old people - are taken together as important, that is called human. If you just take one of them and make an issue out of that, that is a mundane social-political position, that's all.

Pretentious is that the living entity thinks he is God and separate from Kṛṣṇa. Because if we don’t do devotional service, what is left for us? Illusion, staying in the material world, being God. That is more pretentious.

The Lord does not take seriously an accidental falldown because the devotee is determined to continue his service despite the obstacles placed by his conditioned nature. In the case of an accidental falldown the only prāyaścitta for a devotee is devotional service itself. 

When you are working within the Kali-yuga, you are working within the Ācārya system, where there is a Founder-Ācārya. So that person is the Paramahaṁsa because they know perfectly what to do in this age. And knowing what to do then everybody else follows them. Relevant instruction means, the Ācārya

Whether the person is respected or not, at the end of the day your problems still remain, believe it or not. If another person who is having problems is removed from the scene, still you remain and your problems still remain, it doesn't actually change anything.

What we are discussing here doesn't change the position or authority of GBC. This gives them the authority that they are supposed to have, that is given by the sampradāya, as well as it gives to the presidents their authority.

The movement of Lord Caitanya is to deliver the fallen souls. Those who accept that and try to do that - that's the movement. Those who associate amongst themselves  in that mood - that's the society. And those who associate with the idea of organizing things so that these things

You have white guy that is interested - preach to them! You have Indians that are interested - preach to them! If you have a Chinese guy there, you preach to him. It's whoever is willing to listen, that's who you preach to.

Do we have to rewrite Shakespeare because the language is its own language, it has its own grammar? So then here is going to be Prabhupāda's books.

One is simply saying, 'ISKCON didn't take care of my body.' If we cared about the soul, then we would do something for the benefit of the soul. Which is associating with devotees, chanting, taking prasāda, studying the scriptures. But if you want to be the rich guy walking around