I therefore sometimes like these hippies because they have a spirit of renunciation. That is very good position. Simply they require jnana, or knowledge. Then their life will be successful. To bring one to the platform of renunciation, that is a very difficult job. Especially when one has got nice wife, nice home, nice bank balance, it is very, very difficult. So there is a version by Krsna that one who is anxious to take Krsna consciousness, but he is entrapped by this binding-nice wife, nice children, nice home, nice bank balance - so Krsna, in order to give them, give such devotee, facility, He takes away.
Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.13.11, Geneva, June 2, 1974