I very much appreciate your ability to remove simply material conceptions, which we have because we have grown up in an actually demoniac civilization with all kinds of creative misconceptions.

You have to speak on the principle and make the principle presented in a way that someone can appreciate it. Relative means material. Absolute means it is real today, it was real before, it would be real in the future.

This philosophy of 'We are Westerners and so we can't follow all this Indian culture' - extremely dangerous apasampradāya, extremely dangerous. Because it makes one think that my upādi, defining myself as a Westerner, is a valuable element in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

You talk about that there is this particular little group of people, they are controlling the whole planet. But no one is that powerful. Yudhiṣṭhira could control the whole planet. Who is that pious?

There are holy places with sacred rivers and the demigods appear in deity forms. But these purify the soul only after a long time, whereas saintly persons purify just by being seen.