Pancadravida: …went to America, what was your idea of what would be your program when you got there?

Prabhupada: This idea: I shall speak to don’t eat meat, and they’ll immediately kick me out. [laughter] That was my program. And I was going to say that “Don’t eat meat. No illicit sex,” and immediately they will kick me out. “All right.” I never thought that you would accept it… And I was asking Krsna, “I do not know why You have brought me here. As soon as I will say these things, they will kick me out. What is Your program, I do not know.” [chuckles]

Aksayananda: Everybody knows in their heart that actually these things are wrong.

Lokanatha: You are so expert. For one year you did not mention those rules and regulations, I heard.

Prabhupada: No, I simply said, “Come and join and chant.”

Lokanatha: And when they developed higher taste, then you said, “Now no more meat-eating.”

(Morning Walk — April 8, 1976, Mayapur)