Well, I hope that you will reconsider.

Kaushalya : The first time I met Prabhupada was in 1969. I was a sixteen year-old hippie living on the beach in Hawaii, meditating, reading the Bhagavad-gita, and trying to understand the meaning of life. One day as I was sitting meditating, a flyer flew by which said, "A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami speaking on the Bhagavad-gita at Sunset Point." I thought, "This is amazing. I can hear an actual Indian swami talk about Bhagavad-gita, the book I have been studying for two years." At the lecture Prabhupada sat on a slightly raised platform covered with a beautiful Indian rug, talking about how a bona fide spiritual master explains Bhagavad-gita as it is, without misinterpreting it, and how we must read such a Bhagavad-gita. There were only five or six devotees present. He finished talking and asked for questions. I said, "Swamiji, I've been reading this Bhagavad-gita," and handed him mine. I said, "Is this one okay?" He said, "Come back to the temple and we'll talk." So I got in the back of an open, flatbed-type truck with a couple of devotees. Prabhupada was in the front with a couple of other people, and I was watching his head the whole time because it was a beautiful, bald head and it was bobbing with the motion of the truck. As he walked up the stairs to the temple, he said to me, "Come on in, and we'll talk." I went into the room, and he started talking to me about the Bhagavad-gita. I started talking to him about LSD, which I was very much into at the time, and how I had seen Krishna while I was on LSD. He said, "You don't need to take LSD. You can see Krishna because Krishna loves you and can show His favor to you." Then Govinda dasi brought in a tray of sugar cane. Prabhupada said, "Would you share this sugar cane with me?" I said, "No, no, I don't eat sugar." I was against any kind of sugar-eating. He said, "This is natural. It grows on the side of the road." He was reading my mind. He knew exactly where I was coming from. He showed me how to eat sugar cane, and we sat together chewing the pieces of sugar cane, putting our chewed pieces on the same plate. In retrospect it was amazing because it was so casual. He played me a tape of a record that he had done and showed me some other books. He said, "I would like you to stay at the temple," but he also told me that I would have to stop taking LSD. I said, "I can't do that. I'm getting so much spiritual insight from taking LSD." He said, "Well, I hope that you will reconsider." That was the first time I met him. He was pretty wonderful. I went back to the forest to meditate some more and a short time later realized that the only way I could ever get spiritual enlightenment was to find Prabhupada. I called around because I didn't even know that there was a Hare Krishna movement, and I found out that Prabhupada was going to the La Cienega temple in Los Angeles in two weeks. When I saw him there I was dressed in a sari. He looked at me and said, "I remember you from Hawaii." He was very glad that I had come. He said, "Come to my apartment and we'll talk." So I went back to his apartment and he said to me, "Now do you understand the difference between your Bhagavad-gita and my Bhagavad-gita?"