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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1974]]
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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="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">A man of knowledge.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 25, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- March 25, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...one has to study grammar for twelve years.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: How much?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Twelve years.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Twelve years.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And as soon as one has his mastership on the grammar, he can study all other books.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: No, he can be a poet then. The Sanskrit language is poetic in a way.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: So if you study grammar properly, and then you can, you can just compose poetry. (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore Lord Brahmā is called Ādi-kavi. Ādi-kavi. Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Sanskrit is poetic. You can just compose poetry.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Whole Sanskrit language in poetry. Bhagavad-gītā is in poetry. Bhāgavata in poetry. Mahābhārata in poetry.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Ninety percent of the Sanskrit literature is in poetry.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Why ninety? It may be ninety-nine.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: No, but some of the... Kālidāsa, and, you know... They're also composing the ślokas in the... But...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kālidāsa also in poetry.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: No, that is certain... Not all. Abhijñāna-śakuntalā is not in poetry.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Asti himālaya-nāma nakhadi-rāja... Asti uttana-sana-desi (?) himālaya-nāma na-gadi-raja (?).</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: What is that? Raghu-vaṁśa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Raghu-vaṁśa. It is Raghu-vaṁśa.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: I studied his...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Raghu-vaṁśa and Kumāra-sambhava. We studied some portion.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: I studied in my college days... (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Motikama (?) is grammar. Poetry for grammar.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Meghadūta I studied. (Sanskrit) (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...for materialistic persons.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: No, but they're also... In several places he had entered into high philosophy. It's not only the... Kavidhara (?)... There can never be a kavi without philosophy in him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Philosophy. Yes, yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: All, even the modern kavis.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Philosophy is the very soul of kavi.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Kavitā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: I have found it out.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Compact in thought.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: I am regularly reading these poetry. There also, in English poetry, you'll see so many... (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: One line, two inch, and another line, six inch.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: And they, they recite poetry in the prosaic way.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: I have actually...</p>
<p>Guest (1): Walt Whitman. Whitman, Whitman. Walt Whitman.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. He's a great poet, American. Our Hayagrīva is very much fond of him. You are also?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Not so much.</p>
<p>Guest (1): Yes, we must have some poets in this, our congregation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everyone is poet. (laughter) (break) Without being kavi, one cannot become devotee. There are twenty-six qualifications of a devotee. One of them is to become kavi.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Kavi means the one who knows present, past and future. Is it not?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: A man of knowledge.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: And knowledge means this knowledge.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Yesterday only you said that in the course, this thing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is perfect knowledge. Harer nāma harer nāma... ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]).</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: These are, these are joking him, hearing (?) this, you know. Tāny aham... Uh. Not. What is that? What is the word of that śloka? (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ. Katham etad vijānīyām. (break) ...May, June.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: (laughs) Yes, May. Mirage in May and also in June. They want to report the... May, June, he has... (break)</p>
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