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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Devotional service is so strong that it cannot be checked by any material impediments. The ''smārtas'', they are thinking like that, "How these ''mlecchas'' and ''yavanas'' can become a ''brāhmaṇa''?" But they do not know that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one can jump over. ''Māyām etāṁ taranti te. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). ''Māyā'' is very strong. Therefore there are gradual process. ''Varṇāśrama''-''dharma'', ''karma''-''tyāga'', this, that, so many things, pious activities, rituals. But this is the process, step by step, to cross over ''māyā''. But Kṛṣṇa said, ''mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te''. Anyone who surrenders to Kṛṣṇa sincerely, immediately he crosses over.
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Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So many of our . . . the girls in our Society, they have reached that age, but they are not getting married.

Prabhupāda: No, your society is different. Now it is here also.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I mean in ISKCON, in our Society.

Prabhupāda: No, ISKCON is not going to be social reformer, but as far as possible, we can help. Our main business is how to make everyone Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is our business. We cannot take up, but if possible, we can take up all the system of ''varṇāśrama''.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: If ''varṇāśrama'' is neglected, then how can there be proper functioning of society?

Prabhupāda: No. If the society chants Hare Kṛṣṇa seriously, then it is all right. Never mind whatever is done. It doesn't matter. ''Pāpī tāpī jata chilo, hari-nāme uddhārilo''. This is the power of ''hari-saṅkīrtana''. If one is absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so all benefit is there. So long in the bodily concept of life, we require this ''varṇāśrama''-''dharma''. Otherwise there is no necessity.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Caitanya Mahāprabhu you have read in the eighth chapter, ''Madhya-līlā,'' talk between Rāmānanda Rāya and Caitanya Mahāprabhu? So "Perfectional life, how begins?" This question was raised by Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and Rāmānanda replied, "It begins with the ''varṇāśrama''-''dharma'', regulated social life."

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He rejected that.

Prabhupāda: Not rejected. "Yes, it is not very important." ''Eho bāhya'': "This is external." ''Āge kaha āra'': "If you know something more." So the ''varṇāśrama''-''dharma'' is a good help undoubtedly, but it is not important for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise how could I start this movement in the Western country? There was no ''varṇāśrama''-''dharma''. But that did not hamper my movement. Now people are surprised: "How these people have become such great devotees." So it was not based on ''varṇāśrama''-''dharma''. No. Because the whole movement is spiritual. It starts from the spiritual platform, ''ahaṁ brahmāsmi. Jīvera svarūpa haya nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.108-109|CC Madhya 20.108]]). ''Samāśritā ye pada-pallava-plavaṁ mahat-padaṁ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ, bhavāmbudhir vatsa-padaṁ param'' ([[Vanisource:SB 10.14.58|SB 10.14.58]]). Now just like here is a gap. So you can go by the bridge, and if you can jump over, that is also going. That is also going. So to become Kṛṣṇa conscious means to jump over to the spiritual platform immediately. And this ''varṇāśrama''-''dharma'', ''sannyāsa, varṇa-tyāga'', ''karma''-''tyāga'', these are different steps only. But if you become Kṛṣṇa conscious seriously, then you jump over all these steps; you go immediately. That lift and the staircase. By staircase you go step by step; by lift you can go immediately, faster.

Hṛdayānanda: Even some of these women, they're not married but they are serving Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Yes. ''Striyo śūdrāḥ tathā vaiśyās'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.32 (1972)|BG 9.32]]). This ''striyā'', generally they take it, "Even she is prostitute," ''striyā. Te 'pi yānti parāṁ gatim'': "They can also go back to home, back to Godhead." ''Māṁ hi pārtha'' . . . If he takes Kṛṣṇa very seriously, then everything is possible. No impediment. ''Ahaituky apratihatā''. Kṛṣṇa . . . Devotional service is so strong that it cannot be checked by any material impediments. The ''smārtas'', they are thinking like that, "How these ''mlecchas'' and ''yavanas'' can become a ''brāhmaṇa''?" But they do not know that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one can jump over. ''Māyām etāṁ taranti te. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). ''Māyā'' is very strong. Therefore there are gradual process. ''Varṇāśrama''-''dharma'', ''karma''-''tyāga'', this, that, so many things, pious activities, rituals. But this is the process, step by step, to cross over ''māyā''. But Kṛṣṇa said, ''mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te''. Anyone who surrenders to Kṛṣṇa sincerely, immediately he crosses over. As Kṛṣṇa says in another place, ''ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]): "I'll do immediately." So ''māyā'' means ''pāpa''. Unless one is sinful, he cannot be in ''māyā''. So if one surrenders, then he, means, immediately crosses over ''māyā''. So these ''smārta brāhmaṇas'', they consider this thing. They are thinking, "How a person born in other families, they can become ''brāhmaṇa''?"

Hṛdayānanda: So they have no faith in devotional service.

Prabhupāda: No, they are . . .

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What was the conclusion last night with Caitya-''guru'' and Mr. Motilal. I couldn't follow in . . . (break) 

Prabhupāda: Then you come to ''Gītā's'' instruction, ''guṇa''-''karma''-''vibhāgaśaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). And Nārada Muni also says that one must be qualified, not the birth.
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