Brahmananda: You also tricked us, Srila Prabhupada, when you came to New York. You were just chanting Hare Krsna and speaking on Bhagavad-gita, and we came and we listened, and then you took everything. You took our lives, took all of our money… [devotees chuckle] We left our families.
Prabhupada: There is a Bengali word, “Enter like a needle and come out like a plow.” [laughter]
Hari-sauri: “Enter like a needle and come out like a plow.”
Prabhupada: If you say in the beginning, “I am a plow,” he’ll not allow you to enter. Say “I am needle.” Let us try to serve Krsna. He’ll give all intelligence. Buddhi-yogam dadami tam [Bg 10.10].
Conversation, 9 Oct 1977, Vrndavana