As soon as we say that "If you want to become my disciple, you will have to
give up four things: no illicit sex, no intoxication up to drinking tea and
smoking cigarette, no meat-eating and no gambling," and they criticize me,
"Swamiji is very conservative." And if I say that "You can do all nonsense,
whatever you like. You simply take this mantra and give me $125," they will
like. Because in America, $125 is nothing. Any man can pay immediately. So I
would have collected millions of dollars if I would have cheated like that.
But I do not want that. I want one student who follows my instruction. I
don't want millions. Ekas candras tamo hanti na ca tara-sahasrasah. If there
is one moon in the sky, that is sufficient for illumination. There is no
need of millions of stars. So my position is that I want to see that at
least one disciple has become pure devotee. Of course, I have got many
sincere and pure devotees. That is my good luck. But I would have been
satisfied if I could find out one only. There is no need of so-called
millions of stars.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Arrival Lecture -- San Francisco, July 15, 1975