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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="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithMisterPopworthandEFSchumacherJuly261973London_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="53" link="Room Conversation with Mister Popworth and E. F. Schumacher -- July 26, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation with Mister Popworth and E. F. Schumacher -- July 26, 1973, London">
<div class="heading">We do not act on mental speculation. It may be our credit or discredit. That is different thing. We simply follow the standard policy. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now, everything is described in the Bhagavad-gītā, how to become a brāhmaṇa, how to become a kṣatriya, how to become a vaiśya, how to become a śūdra, or how to remain less important than the śūdras. The societies must be divided in different divisions.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Mister Popworth and E. F. Schumacher -- July 26, 1973, London|Room Conversation with Mister Popworth and E. F. Schumacher -- July 26, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Eight kinds of criminals. In killing animals, there are eight kinds of criminals. That he has explained. One who is killing, one who is ordering, one who is purchasing, one who is eating, one who is cooking, in this way... Just like if a man is killed. If a man is killed and there are so many persons implicated, it does not mean that only one who has killed, he becomes criminal. All others who are implicated in that killing business, they are criminals. This is pollution.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: This, this...</p>
<p>Schumacher: Let me make myself clear. I happen to be a vegetarian.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: That's all right. We understand that. We're talking about the matter, the issue.</p>
<p>Schumacher: But you know, if one lives here in this society, even the elimination of these four things doesn't do it.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Oh, it changes everything immediately.</p>
<p>Schumacher: I mean a fellow who builds himself a huge house when we have twenty-thousand actually, actually homeless people without a roof over their head in London... Now I would like those things to be raised into real spiritual problems.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Yes, let them come here. We will...</p>
<p>Schumacher: And not to get satisfaction out of making idealistic...</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Yes, we have such a big place, but why they are not coming? We have temples all over the world, but people are not coming.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because there are restriction.</p>
<p>Schumacher: That is not, that is not... That doesn't meet my point. My point is...</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Why not? If they have no place to live, let them come and live here. We are convinced that Kṛṣṇa can provide place for any number of His...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Millions.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: ...devotees. Any number.</p>
<p>Popworth: I found this the other day, and you'll forgive me making this point, but when I was in discussion, it was impossible for me to make a point without being interrupted so frequently that I failed to make my point at all. Now, can I beg for courtesy for our guest to listen to what he has to say. Then answer him.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: But... Just that this is interesting, that the solution is there...</p>
<p>Schumacher: But you haven't heard the problem yet.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: But the problem is that people cannot understand the solution. They cannot understand.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But one thing...</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Why they cannot understand?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mister, yes... I forgot your name.</p>
<p>Popworth: John.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: John, Mr. John. That we follow strictly the Vedic injunctions, and unless we become God conscious, there cannot be any reformation in this world.</p>
<p>Popworth: I agree with that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all. And that God consciousness cannot be achieved without being pure. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān ([[Vanisource:BG 10.12|BG 10.12]]). God is the supreme pure. You cannot approach God, you cannot understand God, in impure condition. And without God consciousness, there cannot be any purification. You try to understand this simple fact, that without God consciousness, you may prescribe so many things—they will be all failure, all failure. And God consciousness cannot be achieved without being pure. This is the problem. Now you can think over it.</p>
<p>Schumacher: I agree with that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. You can defend your theory but that will not help purification of the society. That will not help. Take it for granted. You can make so many theories but if you remain impure, if you are not God conscious, all these theories will be useless. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano-rathe... ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). This is simply mental speculation. Mano-rathena, hovering on the mental plane, you can jump from this to that, but that will not solve the problem. Mano-rathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ. So we do not act on mental speculation. It may be our credit or discredit. That is different thing. We simply follow the standard policy. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now, everything is described in the Bhagavad-gītā, how to become a brāhmaṇa, how to become a kṣatriya, how to become a vaiśya, how to become a śūdra, or how to remain less important than the śūdras. The societies must be divided in different divisions. They should work conjointly...</p>
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