What is Krsna consciousness?

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

Guest (2): Swamiji, what is Krsna consciousness?

Prabhupada: What Krsna says, you hear and do. Just like you are now acting,
family conscious or country conscious or society conscious. The dog is also
working as dog conscious. Monkey is working, monkey conscious. He is thinking,
"I am monkey." You are thinking you are Indian. He is thinking he is American.
He is thinking as..., so on, so on, different consciousness. But when you act
Krsna consciousness, that is your real consciousness. Now we are working under
different consciousness; therefore varieties. And when you come to Krsna
consciousness, then it is oneness, perfection, to act according to the
instruction of Krsna. Anukulyena krsnanusilanam [Cc Madhya 19.167]. What Krsna
says, you act accordingly. You are acting... The Communists, they are acting
Lenin consciousness. Is it not? Their god is Lenin. I have been in Moscow.
Everywhere Lenin's picture, Lenin's book, and they are worshiping Lenin's tomb.
That is Lenin consciousness. So similarly, you become Krsna conscious.

Room Conversation – December 5, 1976, Hyderabad