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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="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">So I am asking that "You chant the holy name of God. If you have God, you chant the holy name of that God." I don't say that "You chant the holy name of my God." You chant the holy name of your God. God is one. Just like water. Somebody says "water," somebody says "pāni," somebody says "jala," but the end is, the aim is, water. Similarly, God... I may say "Kṛṣṇa," you may say "Jehovah," the Muslims may say "Allah," or others may say something else, but the aim is God.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Justin Murphy (Geographer) -- May 14, 1975, Perth|Room Conversation with Justin Murphy (Geographer) -- May 14, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Without God, is there any religion? Any religion, is there any religion who will say, "No, we have no God." Is there any religion?</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So we are asking, "Chant the holy name of God." So if you are Roman Catholic...</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: Any man's God.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Any man's God. God is one. God cannot be two. But we are thinking...</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: Roman Catholics don't agree with you on that, do they? Roman Catholics have their own God.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. No, no.</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: And this is one of the problems. It's nowhere near as simple as, I am sure, as you suggest, and I wish it were.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. It is simple. It is simple.</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: The Roman Catholics are a jealous people. Roman Catholics are jealous religious people. They refuse even still to accept, for example, that Anglicans pray in the same way as they do. They refuse to accept that Anglicans pray as well as they do.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, one thing is that may be Anglican, may be Roman Catholics, may be Christian, may be Hindu or Muslim or anyone. Whether they have God in their conception of religion or not. Do they have God or no God?</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: Well they all have. They must have, to be a religion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So I am asking that "You chant the holy name of God. If you have God, you chant the holy name of that God." I don't say that "You chant the holy name of my God." You chant the holy name of your God. God is one. Just like water. Somebody says "water," somebody says "pāni," somebody says "jala," but the end is, the aim is, water. Similarly, God... I may say "Kṛṣṇa," you may say "Jehovah," the Muslims may say "Allah," or others may say something else, but the aim is God.</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: Well, why aren't we better off then? Because obviously, therefore, going on what you've just said, there are a lot of people in Australia every day, perhaps certainly once every week, chanting the name of their God. Why then do we still have problems?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, problem...</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: Are there not enough people chanting to their God or to the one God?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So problems... Suppose if you are... Aborigines, they have God? They have their name of God?</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: Yes, well, they have multiple gods, yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So if they chant the holy name of God there is no loss. At least there is no loss.</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: No, certainly, oh, well, we've established that, sure.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So why not begin this? There is no loss. You are not losing anything. Suppose if you chant the holy name of God as a geographer. Your salary is not decreased. So there is no...</p>
<p>Justin Murphy: Certainly not, no. But why is there...? If people are, in their own way, then, chanting to their God, why...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no... Ultimately, you require sufficient supply of water to grow your food, vegetables. Or even if you are animal-eater, to maintain your animals you require sufficient water. And that is recommended, that yajñād bhavati parjanyaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.14|BG 3.14]]). And the yajña is very simple: chanting the holy name of the Lord. So why not introduce, that every home, every factory, every community, every place, they should sit down at least for half an hour and chant the holy name of the Lord?</p>
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