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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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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 class="heading">No, it is not in the book. It is accepted, all the authorities.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: They have too much bad experience being cheated, so they don't believe anyone. In America...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why you should be cheated when Kṛṣṇa says? Kṛṣṇa is not cheating.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: They would say, "How do you know God said that? Just because it is written in a book, how do you know?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, it is not in the book. It is accepted, all the authorities.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: But they would question everything.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is another thing.</p>
<p>Gargamuni: It requires faith ultimately, some faith.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Especially in America today...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Faith you must have. Because you have no faith in authority, therefore you are dull.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Because all their authorities have cheated them. The President has cheated them, the bankers have cheated them...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But they are not authorities. Authorities mean those who are in the paramparā system. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2|BG 4.2]]).</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Of course, in America they have no experience with saintly men. There has never been a saintly man in the history of America. (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Gargamuni: They don't know the meaning of saintliness.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But they know... Why they accept Lord Jesus Christ? But they do not believe even Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>Gargamuni: No, they don't believe.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: It's like you say. Jesus said "Thou shall not kill," and they started off by killing him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: And ever since then they have continued their killing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Their intelligence is so sharp. (laughs) This is the basic principle of their civilization.</p>
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