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<div id="RoomConversationwithDrWeiroftheMensaSocietySeptember51971London_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="25" link="Room Conversation with Dr. Weir of the Mensa Society -- September 5, 1971, London" link_text="Room Conversation with Dr. Weir of the Mensa Society -- September 5, 1971, London">
<div class="heading">To accept authority does not mean one should be blind. But the real source of knowledge comes from authority.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Dr. Weir of the Mensa Society -- September 5, 1971, London|Room Conversation with Dr. Weir of the Mensa Society -- September 5, 1971, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No. No. To accept authority does not mean one should be blind. But the real source of knowledge comes from authority.</p>
<p>Dr. Weir: You then reject the idea of a fear of God.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, I don't reject. The thing is that perfect knowledge is received from the authority which… beyond the material defects.</p>
<p>Dr. Weir: No, what I mean is, fear is not necessary for learning from an authoritarian source.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, authority must be perfect. Then otherwise the knowledge is not perfect.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: He's saying that you don't need to necessarily have to fear the authority before you accept him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There's no question of fearing. There's no question of fearing.</p>
<p>Dr. Weir: That's what I thought. You don't acce... That doesn't come in at all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. No. It is out of love, out of affection, the reciprocation.</p>
<p>Dr. Weir: Well, that's what I think very often, that it is fear that prevents people from accepting.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. No.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: He said that sometimes someone may fear authority, that prevents them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Of course, when you accept the... That is not fear. That is obedience, respect. Respect. That's not fear. Just like my students—they are not fearful of me. Because I came from India so what business they have got to be afraid of me. Neither I'm very..., a greater man, but they receive the philosophy, they understand the philosophy, therefore they have got respect for me. The teacher should be offered due respect. That is not fear. That is not out of fear. It's out of love.</p>
<p>Dr. Weir: I was saying that fear prevents it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. There's no prevention. There's no fear because they are quite at liberty to ask me question and they're asking and the answer is there. I receive so many letters daily. So they have no... They are not afraid of me. But, out of affection, they offer respect.</p>
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