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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Eleven. That's all. This is the age. Twelve to fifteen years, the boys become, by bad association, they become rotten. This hellish world is like that. They go to school and become demons.
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[[Vanisource:740611 - Morning Walk - Paris|740611 - Morning Walk - Paris]]
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Prabhupāda: What is your name?

Devotee: (telling child) Bhakti dāsa.

Child: Bhakti dāsa.

Prabhupāda: Oh! You do not know your name? You ask your father? (laughter) You do not know your name? You are asking your father, "What is my name?"

Child: No, I don't remember.

Prabhupāda: Oh, you don't remember your name? I . . .

Bhagavān: We began to call him Bhakti dāsa yesterday. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: Oh, thank you very much. Very good. (laughs) Making a Vaiṣṇava, very nice boy. Very good-looking boy. Don't let him deviate. This is the age to be careful so that he may not deviate. What is his age? Twelve years?

Devotee: Eleven.

Prabhupāda: Eleven. That's all. This is the age. Twelve to fifteen years, the boys become, by bad association, they become rotten. This hellish world is like that. They go to school and become demons.

Paramahaṁsa: Yesterday in your lecture, you mentioned how in this age it's very difficult to remain chaste, or free of . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes, but one who is Kṛṣṇa conscious, he's all right. (japa) Teach him Sanskrit and English and let him read our books. Then perfect knowledge. He doesn't require to go to school. And so far mathematics and history concerned, everyone knows. Two plus two equal to four, it doesn't require much education. Even illiterate man who has never gone to school, he can also count. Eh? "How much money you are giving me?" He doesn't want to be cheated. No. (japa) So the fact is, God cannot be unknown. If you are actually serious to know God, God can be known. This is no argument that, "God cannot be known."

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That is putting limitation on Kṛṣṇa, to say that you cannot see.
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