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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1969 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Allen Ginsberg: Well, so tomorrow we'll be doing it. So now, the next question I had in my mind is, we'll be doing kīrtana, then language, speech. Then end with kīrtana. Prabhupāda: That is also kīrtana. Kīrtana means kīrtayati, glorifying. That is kīrtana. So either you sing musically or you speak devotionally, both of them are kīrtana. Just like Śukadeva Gosvāmī, he continually spoke to Mahārāja Parīkṣit. That is also state . . . śrī viṣṇu . . . śravaṇe parīkṣit, abhavad vaiyāsakiḥ kīrtane. Vaiyāsaki, the son of Vyāsadeva, Sukadeva Gosvāmī, he became liberated simply by kīrtane. But what is that kīrtana? He never played musical way. He simply explained Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So this is also kīrtana. This is called saṅkīrtana. Bahubhir militvā kīrtayati. That is saṅkīrtana.
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[[Vanisource:690511 - Conversation with Allen Ginsberg - Columbus|690511 - Conversation with Allen Ginsberg - Columbus]]
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Prabhupāda: Śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe. ([[Vanisource:BG 6.41 (1972)|BG 6.41]]).

Indian lady: He's birth so good, because he was so good last time.

Prabhupāda: Children very easily adopt it. So this is the perfect yoga system. No artificial education. Spontaneous response: dancing, Hare Kṛṣṇa. That's all. This is the easiest method. So the greatest contribution to the human society. Do it.

Allen Ginsberg: Well, so tomorrow we'll be doing it. So now, the next question I had in my mind is, we'll be doing kīrtana, then language, speech. Then end with kīrtana.

Prabhupāda: That is also kīrtana. Kīrtana means kīrtayati, glorifying. That is kīrtana. So either you sing musically or you speak devotionally, both of them are kīrtana. Just like Śukadeva Gosvāmī, he continually spoke to Mahārāja Parīkṣit. That is also state . . . śrī viṣṇu . . . śravaṇe parīkṣit, abhavad vaiyāsakiḥ kīrtane.

Vaiyāsaki, the son of Vyāsadeva, Sukadeva Gosvāmī, he became liberated simply by kīrtane. But what is that kīrtana? He never played musical way. He simply explained Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So this is also kīrtana. This is called saṅkīrtana. Bahubhir militvā kīrtayati. That is saṅkīrtana.

Allen Ginsberg: The chanting is saṅkīrtana.

Prabhupāda: Chanting, yes. Saṅkīrtana.

Allen Ginsberg: Well, if we have two and one half hours . . .

Hayagrīva: We have as long as we . . .

Allen Ginsberg: How long a saṅkīrtana to begin with, do you think?

Hayagrīva: The first one would last, what, thirty minutes? Forty minutes? Thirty, forty minutes?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Forty, forty-five. No, at least half an hour beginning.
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