When an American reporter asked why most Krishna followers were young, Prabhupada’s response was, “We’re attracting the young flowers of your country, not the old fools.” In 1968 Srila Prabhupada also said “yellow bamboo doesn’t bend,” meaning that older people generally will not take to Krishna consciousness as readily as the young. And on May 13, 1973, in Los Angeles, this exchange occurred: Paramahamsa: “Just like many of your devotees, we experienced when we tried to preach to our parents, because they are much older, to admit that Krsna consciousness is the right path in life, means to also admit that they have wasted their entire life.” Prabhupada: “Real knowledge is to be given to the younger section. Older section, it is not possible. They will have to forget first of all, what they have learned. That they cannot. Therefore it is impossible. Therefore knowledge begins from the school children, not from the man who is going to die. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan: [SB 7.6.1] ‘Krsna consciousness should be taught from the very childhood.; Not at the time of death.”