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When the system is imperfect, then it has to be changed according to time and circumstance

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"When the system is imperfect, then it has to be changed according to time and circumstance"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

When the system is imperfect, then it has to be changed according to time and circumstance. But if the system is itself perfect, there is no question of...
Interview with Newsweek -- July 14, 1976, New York:

Interviewer: Is there any method for dissent within your movement? Or change?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Reform, you mean? Changing the teaching perhaps, to fit the times?

Rāmeśvara: Just like in the church, as the public mood is changed, they have compromised on certain issues like abortion, homosexuality, priests getting married. So she wants to know if in our movement there will be this arrangement also. (laughter)

Interviewer: Well, I didn't necessarily mean the specifics.

Bali-mardana: In other words the purity is maintained by... The system is perfect to begin with so it remains perfect by being unchanged. If the system is imperfect, you may always be questioning.

Prabhupāda: Yes. When the system is imperfect, then it has to be changed according to time and circumstance. But if the system is itself perfect, there is no question of... Just like the perfect system: the sun rises from the eastern side. So for millions and trillions of years the system is going on because the system is perfect. It doesn't require change, neither you can change. You cannot ask the sun to rise from the western side. So if the soul is eternal, it does not die or it is slain after the body is finished. But that is eternal fact. Destined in the past present and future, everything.

Page Title:When the system is imperfect, then it has to be changed according to time and circumstance
Compiler:Rishab
Created:08 of Oct, 2011
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