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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember131973LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="100" link="Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles">
<div class="heading">He was talking of all these materialistic persons as bokā or fools. So I repeat his word. Bokā.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He was talking of all these materialistic persons as bokā or fools. So I repeat his word. Bokā.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Insects.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bokā means fool. You don't say this bokā?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Bokā, insects, is that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Insane, yes. So they are all insane. Anyone who has no clear knowledge what is the aim of life, what is God, "what is my relationship," one who does not know all these things, he is a bokā, illusioned. He is hovering in darkness. Therefore, whatever he is doing, it is defeat. That we see practically. So many scientists, so many philosophers, politicians, are engaged to bring in a better condition in the world, but they are failure. In the darkness they are working. They do not know. One bokā is trying to excel another bokā. This is going on. (break) ...great personality, Rabindranath Tagore, he used to say, a bokā. Actually he is so. What he has done? He has given some imaginary songs, that's all. What benefit the people will derive out of it? Simply waste of time, that's all.</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">My Guru Maharaja: "He's a bokāloka." My Guru Maharaja used to say all these men, "All rascals." If one, anyone, does not know Kṛṣṇa, then he's a bokā-loka. Immediately take it for granted, bokāloka.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 26, 1976, London|Room Conversation -- July 26, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Apramana.(?) Actually, what is this? My Guru Maharaja: "He's a bokāloka." My Guru Maharaja used to say all these men, "All rascals." I was at that time coming him(?). But he said, all, "Everyone rascals." He told me, "Rabindranath Tagore and..., bokāloka."</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: What's the exact meaning of that word?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bokāloka means just like a foolish boy. Bokāloka.</p>
<p>Bhagavān: Childish.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Childish, with no sense. Actually that is the fact. All these rascals, they have no sense. Simply they bluff because they have no real knowledge. Mayayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ. That's a fact. If one, anyone, does not know Kṛṣṇa, then he's a bokā-loka. Immediately take it for granted, bokāloka. They take that we are very sectarian, but that is a fact.q</p>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationJanuary221977Bhuvanesvara_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="45" link="Room Conversation -- January 22, 1977, Bhuvanesvara" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 22, 1977, Bhuvanesvara">
<div class="heading">My Guru Mahārāja used to say, bokaloka. Bokaloka. So I was thinking, "Why he's..." Even Rabindranath Tagore, he's a Bokaloka. So I was thinking that "Everyone is bokaloka?" Now I can understand that everyone is a bokaloka, mūḍha.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 22, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- January 22, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmānanda: Yes. And this is an Indian, he's a Hindu, so he knows Vedic culture, but still he liked your books very much. He said, "I've never read something like this."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Our presentation is simplified. That is the beauty.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Yes. That's what he appreciated.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. We do not make the things cumbersome.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: So that no one understands.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (chuckles) Vyāghra mane śārdula. One student asked teacher, "What is the meaning of vyāghra?" He said "Śārdula." Means vyāghra is already a difficult word, and he presented another difficult word.</p>
<p>Nanda-kumāra: They don't actually know anything, so they have to speak with so much...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All rascals. Therefore I call them as... My Guru Mahārāja used to say, bokaloka. Bokaloka. So I was thinking, "Why he's..." Even Rabindranath Tagore, he's a Bokaloka. So I was thinking that "Everyone is bokaloka?" Now I can understand that everyone is a bokaloka, mūḍha. So enthusiastically do everything. You are the beginner of this movement, one of the pioneers. So you should be more vigorous. You should not lag behind anyone. You voluntarily joined. You first joined in Tompkinson Square. So keep that spirit.</p>
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<div class="heading">Let understand it, that anyone who is godless, who has no idea what is God, he is a rascal. Immediately take him that he's a rascal. He may be prime minister, he may be president, he may be scientist, but we shall take him as rascal number one. This is our first understanding. Bokā. My Guru Mahārāja used to say, bokā. So at that time I was thinking, "Everyone is bokā?"
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Morning Walk -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ. Everything is analytically spoken. Why all these things? Āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ. Because godless, no intelligence. Anyone who is godless, he has no intelligence. This is the conclusion. They are intelligent amongst the similar rascals. Śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 2.3.19|SB 2.3.19]]). He's intelligentsia among the dogs, among the camels, among the hogs, and the asses. They will praise them, "Oh, you are so intelligent. You are so educated." Not human being. Just like dog receives his master, "Gow, gow, gow, gow." (makes growling sounds) So what is that reception, dog's reception? Similarly, these intelligent men are intelligent amongst a class of men who are compared with dogs, hogs, camel and ass. They are not human being. If some man praises them that "You are so big. You are so big leader," he's also amongst this group. Śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ. This is grave thing. Let understand it, that anyone who is godless, who has no idea what is God, he is a rascal. Immediately take him that he's a rascal. He may be prime minister, he may be president, he may be scientist, but we shall take him as rascal number one. This is our first understanding. Bokā. My Guru Mahārāja used to say, bokā. So at that time I was thinking, "Everyone is bokā?" (laughing) Guru Mahārāja says, "Everyone..." "Even Rabindranath Tagore, he is also bokā?" Later on I could under..., "Yes. Everyone is bokā."</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: You were surprised that he was saying at first, "Everyone is rascal."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (laughs) Yes.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: We were all too. When you said Gandhi, we were shocked because we thought he was a great saint. And he's also rascal.</p>
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<div class="heading">They are in ignorance. And they are advertising as scientist, philosopher-false propaganda. That is my view from the very beginning. They are nothing, all bokās. My Guru Mahārāja used to say. In the beginning I could not understand, that "Why he says everyone is bokā?" Actually that is fact. They do not know the value of life.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 18, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 18, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think we're the only... I think that what you are telling us is perfect in that now what we have to do is we have to vigorously explain our philosophy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's the only way. We have to educate them. If we remain silent now, then we will become squashed. We have to speak positively. "Yes, this is why... We are like this because of the following reasons."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. And that is good for human being. That you have to convince. And actually that is fact. They are in ignorance. And they are advertising as scientist, philosopher-false propaganda. That is my view from the very beginning. They are nothing, all bokās. My Guru Mahārāja used to say. In the beginning I could not understand, that "Why he says everyone is bokā?" (laughs) Actually that is fact. They do not know the value of life.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They are criticizing us because we say every one of them is demons. They don't like that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Prahlāda Mahārāja said his father, demon. Asura-varya. Tat sādhu manye asura-varya: "Best of the demons. My dear best of the demons." (laughs)</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I mean that's why... Just like in that Back to Godhead. The thing is that some of our devotees are becoming a little bit...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Influenced.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Influenced, and they're a little scared, you know. They're fearful.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: They don't want to upset people.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That you should not be.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. That's why it is that the Back to Godhead magazine is being compromised a little. They are fearful. But actually that magazine is our platform for speaking strongly. In your Back to Godhead that you were publishing, you were very, very strong.</p>
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