Prabhupada: What is your name?

Devotee: [telling child] Bhakti dasa.

Child: Bhakti dasa.

Prabhupada: Oh! You do not know your name? You ask your father? [laughter]You do not know your name? You are asking your father, “What is my name?”

Child: No, I don’t remember.

Prabhupada: Oh, you don’t remember your name? I…

Bhagavan: We began to call him Bhakti dasa yesterday. [laughter]

Prabhupada: Oh, thank you very much. Very good. [laughs] Making a Vaisnava, very nice boy. Very good-looking boy. Don’t let him deviate. This is the age to be careful so that he may not deviate. What is his age? Twelve years?

Devotee: Eleven.

Prabhupada: Eleven. That’s all. This is the age. Twelve to fifteen years, the boys become, by bad association, they become rotten. This hellish world is like that. They go to school and become demons.

Morning Walk — June 11, 1974, Paris