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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 class="heading">No. There is no question of morality. First of all, define what is morality? What is the definition of morality?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: The value of life in its proper perspective.
Prabhupāda: Value of life, everyone has got his own value of life. a drunkard, he has got his value of life. That "When I drink, it is value." Is that morality?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is the morality of the drunkard.
Prabhupāda: Therefore everyone has got his own morality. Then what is the standard morality?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, religion, when you come to the real cause of everything, then you come to religion. Religion is the science of sciences. Because you are trying to find out the original cause, and as soon you come to the original cause, He is God, original cause. So as soon as you come to God, then there is religion.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: And that, that definition of differentiation is that they say religion deals with the value of life, the moral and ethics... And on the other hand...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Religion, religion is the source of moral and ethics. Because religion means to come to the perfectional point. So as soon as there is perfection, moral and ethics are already there. So called moral ethics, that is artificial. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. If one is not a devotee of the Lord, his morality has no value. That is artificial. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Mahad-guṇāḥ, high qualities, moral, ethics, they are high qualities. So Bhāgavata says that unless one is devotee of God, he cannot have high qualities. That is artificial.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: So without God consciousness, there's no question of morality.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. There is no question of morality. First of all, define what is morality? What is the definition of morality?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: The value of life in its proper perspective.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Value of life, everyone has got his own value of life. a drunkard, he has got his value of life. That "When I drink, it is value." Is that morality?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is the morality of the drunkard.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore everyone has got his own morality. Then what is the standard morality?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Yeah. There must be a standard for everyone.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is Ramakrishna mission's morality: yata mata tata patha. Whatever you think, that is your way. Yata mata tata patha.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yata mata tata patha.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: As many ways you think, that's all right.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is how they define morality.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That you make your own morality.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: That's not standard, though.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. These rascals do like that, so why don't you make your own law in the state?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Cannot.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why do they not make their own law, that I have got my own law. I don't care for state law." Will they be accepted?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They'll be caught.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Anyone who does that is either criminal or insane.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, insane. All criminality is done when one is insane. That is the definition of the Vedas. Everyone is criminal when he's insane. Sane man never commits any criminality. Just like when a, when a man commits murder, unless he becomes insane, he cannot commit murder.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: So among the college students, among the college students it's very common that they say: "I don't care what is said." These people, students.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, but...</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: I want to, I want to follow my own aim and desire, my own morality. They say like that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right, but why don't you do that in case of your relationship to the state. Suppose the state says: "You must drive to the right." Why don't you drive on the left? Why do you obey the state laws? What does he say? You do whatever you like.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: That means there's someone more powerful than they are.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: They have to obey.</p>
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