Reporter (2): This path of devotional yoga, bhakti-yoga, that is the path for this time, for this age?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Bhakti-yoga is the real yoga. You'll find in Bhagavad-gītā, when yoga system is described, the Lord says:
- yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
- mad-gatenāntarātmanā
- śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
- sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
- (BG 6.47)
"The first-class yogī is he who is always thinking of Me," or Kṛṣṇa, "within Himself." He is first-class yogi. So our these students, they are being educated how to think of Kṛṣṇa always, twenty-four hours, without any stop. And that is first-class yoga.
Reporter (2): If you are to think about something, don't you first have to see that thing?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter (2): Well, are you showing your devotees Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, certainly.
Reporter (2): Then what does . . .? Well, what is Kṛṣṇa? What does Kṛṣṇa look like?
Prabhupāda: Then ask them, who has seen already. Ask them. They'll tell you what is Kṛṣṇa. But the same thing: if he says something about Kṛṣṇa, you will accept it?
Reporter (2): Yes.
Prabhupāda: You will accept?
Reporter (2): Yes.
Prabhupāda: Then see. Here is Kṛṣṇa.
Guest (2): But that's a painting.
Prabhupāda: That is painting. Suppose your painting is there. Can I not say that, "Here is Mr. Such-and-such"?
Reporter (2): Yes.
Prabhupāda: Then? What is the wrong there?
Reporter (2): Well, the artist would have been looking at me to paint the picture of me.
Prabhupāda: No, no, your photograph is not yourself?
Reporter (2): Yes, it is.
Prabhupāda: Yes, similarly, it is Kṛṣṇa's painting. But the difference is that you cannot talk with your photograph, but we can talk with Kṛṣṇa's photograph. That is the difference.