Nineteen sixty-nine was for John Lennon a year of intense search for social and personal liberation. He had already been to the Maharishi and later would enter primal therapy and left-wing politics. On September 14, John, Yoko, and George Harrison, after enjoying an Indian vegetarian meal prepared by the devotees at the Temple, walked over to Srila Prabhupada's quarters for their first meeting. And now they were about to meet the guru who brought the Hare Krishna mantra to the West. In a conversation sometimes lightly humorous, sometimes intense, the reader will be struck by Srila Prabhupada's prophetic use of President Kennedy's assassination to dramatize the temporality of human life and how the soul lives on after death, subjects that John would explore in his later songs.
Material knowledge is practically no knowledge whatsoever.
It is covered knowledge. But when one is liberated and attains liberated knowledge, his knowledge is very much greater than the greatest material knowledge. That's what we're doing. We're going around. Actually, Yoko never met the Maharishi.