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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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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="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">No, no. First of all, do you know what Sai Baba is preaching? Do you know?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi|Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Reporter (2): Swamiji, do you think that there are some people in this country in thousands or maybe tens of thousands who are getting spiritual solace from, say, people like Sai Baba or any of these other people who have interpreted the Vedas or who have followers all over the country? Do you think these followers are getting some amount of spiritual solace?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. First of all, do you know what Sai Baba is preaching? Do you know?</p>
<p>Reporter (2): No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then how you are asking on behalf of Sai Baba?</p>
<p>Reporter (2): No, just like that. Just like.... I am just going.... I am very far removed from these...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, why you are interested.... Twice, thrice you have said Sai Baba.</p>
<p>Reporter (2): No, anybody. Because he is among the better-known people. I, I am, I have nothing to do with.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So, but better known...</p>
<p>Reporter (2): It could be someone like, say, the Bala Yogeshwara, who also got some kind of following there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is.... That has spoiled our India's Vedic culture. Everyone has invented some ways, and they have misled the general people, people, followers. That is the misfortune of modern India. Yes. The standard instruction is there in the Bhagavad-gītā. They do not care to know it. They want to know about the greatness of Bala Yogi, Sai Baba, this bābā, that bābā. That is their misfortune. They give up the real instruction, Bhagavad-gītā, which is accepted by the great ācāryas—Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Śaṅkarācārya, Caitanya Mahāprabhu—and all over the world, they are not interested to know Bhagavad-gītā; they are interested to know about Sai Baba. Just see misfortune.</p>
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