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[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1976]]
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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">So, I have... There is no support in the śāstra?... So Cāṇakya is authority. So I am quoting Cāṇakya. What is my fault?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 19, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 19, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: And bābu candra mantrī. Another foolish mantrī. One, one foolish, king; another foolish is ministers. So that is going on. All the rascals, they are getting vote. One is becoming president, another is becoming the prime minister. But both of them are rascals.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: The, the law they are passing now is that the president and prime minister under no case can be brought in court.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is all right. That is good.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: They can do anything.</p>
<p>Yaśodānandana: I think that some of the comments of Your Divine Grace, some of the purports of the Fourth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, if they come to the notice of the Indian government, it may give us some... They may seriously consider about banning, because in that one purport you openly criticize how unfortunate the citizens are because they have a woman as the prime minister, and in another purport you openly say that the citizens should keep their, some of their treasury secret, which is against the principle of their income tax.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So, I have... There is no support in the śāstra?</p>
<p>Guru-kṛpā: There is support, but according to their idea and their so-called...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then they confront Bhāgavata. Bhāgavatam...</p>
<p>Children: "Hare Kṛṣṇa! Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda! Hare Kṛṣṇa. (break)</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: ...neighborhood, Cāṇakya...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So Cāṇakya is authority. So I am quoting Cāṇakya. What is my fault?</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: No, they cannot... They cannot...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Cāṇakya is authority. Otherwise, why you have named "Cāṇakya Purī"? He's as good as Gandhi and other big, big men. So it is said, viśvāso naiva kartavyaṁ strīṣu rāja-kuleṣu ca.(?)I am innocent. I am quoting authority.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Yes. Yes, you can say that is the statement of Cāṇakya. One foolish man... I was saying, "Some...," in my lectures, "some foolish scholar has written that because Kṛṣṇa is black, He is a scheduled caste." So there was a scheduled caste man in the audience who became educated. So he took offense. "Well, maybe Kṛṣṇa was the leader of the scheduled caste." So I said then, "that is the statement of some scholar. You cannot criticize me. I am quoting a scholar." The audience shouted him down too. (break) Śūdras and yavanas may become brāhmaṇas, but many of them don't.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm?</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: So many born śūdras are śūdras, many times.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: But artificially the government process is to give benefits and prestige to the harijanas without being qual...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Without training.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Training.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Without making him harijana...</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: A harijana may become a brāhmaṇa, but sometimes a harijana is a scheduled caste.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Harijana means methara. As soon as he comes, if he says, "I am harijana" then immediately you understand that he is a sweeper.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is the position.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: And now, in many cases, they forcibly occupy some land, and they create disturbance, and the local people set fire and drive them out. We call a barber...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mūḍha. Anyone who's not a Kṛṣṇa conscious, he's a mūḍha, bās. Narādhama, bās.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: We call a barber, and he shaves one, and we said, "Now sharpen again," and he does not bring his stone. "Go back and bring your stone." But even in the free society, American society, they have union. And that is caste. To protect the employment, one union man cannot do the work of another union or he'll put another man out of work. So they stay in their place. So that is sva-dharma and para-dharma. So the same principle is natural, svābhāvika, again appears naturally. Hmm? Just like we... In my house we purchased a piano. One union is hired to bring the piano from the shop to the lorry, another set of workers will lift the piano and put it into the lorry, and another union will take the, from the lorry into your house. So you have to hire about nine different men, because they'll say, "No, now our work is finished up to this point."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In America?</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Yes. And the other union is the truck driver. And no man will do the other work. Like in India, if you hire a woman to wash the pots, if you tell her to wash the pāyakhānā, she will not go. Another woman you have to get. And that protects them. That protects their employment opportunity.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Division of labor.</p>
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