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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">Anyone who has got money, he has got power. That is open secret. What is the secret? (laughs) If you have got money, you have got all power.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Well, government means combination of cheaters like you. What do you expect more than that? If you are cheaters, then you go to the government. Someway or other get vote. Bribe or something nefarious you do and get vote, and they become cheap government man. And then do your business. Because you are cheater, you have come to the post of prestige and power. What you will do? You know simply only cheat.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So he'll cheat more.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all. You have now got the power. You cheat more.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: The people in America that claim that the American government is controlled by Communists. They say that these big, big bankers, the very rich, rich people, that they are actually..., their theory is Communist government, or, not Communist, dictatorship, and that they are secretly manipulating.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is their aim?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Power.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Power..., anyone who has got money, he has got power. That is open secret. What is the secret? (laughs) If you have got money, you have got all power.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: They're very expert in making the people think that this is democracy and that the people have power. (static)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If you can purchase vote by paying money, then where is democracy?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Just like one of their arguments is that these rich bankers, they can control how much money is being printed.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, suppose I stand for presidency, and I take money from bank and bribe and get vote.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: So they can actually create, by their control, a depression.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, money can buy. The real thing is money. That is stated in the Bhāgavata. Money is the criterion in the Kali-yuga. If you have got money, then you don't require anything; you can purchase anything.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Purchase justice.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, anything. That is stated in the Bhāgavata. So therefore people are trying to get money somehow or other. Then he knows, "I get all power." The present struggle is everyone is trying to get more, more, more, more money. Because everyone knows if I get money then I.... (static) Just like the Beatles and others. Actually what they have got qualification? They have got money. (static) That's all. What qualification? Singer. Singer, according to Vedic culture, third-class, fourth-class man.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śūdra.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Most of these famous guys, they are all really the lowest grade people as well. Very low grade.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Otherwise, this John Lennon, how he dares to photograph naked with his lover? How lowest class man he is, that he has no shame even. And he's also big man. Press reporters go to take his opinion on certain subject matters. They do not know where I am going to take opinion. What is the value of this man? But people are after money. Why? "I have got money." That's all.</p>
<p>Devotee: They hold great sway with the general public as well.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: One of the reasons why they did not want John Lennon to be allowed to stay in the United States is because they said that he had too much influence with the young people.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, he spoiled these. They are already spoiled, and (static) that the government has done nice thing. What is his value? But because he has got money (static) popularity, he has become big man.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: So there is this theory that there is a conspiracy all over the world that the rich men to control.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is, we say. If you have got money, you can make conspiracy or anything, whatever you like. Conspiracy I cannot make, I have no money, I cannot make conspiracy. But if I have got money, I can develop a conspiracy with my money. That one man asked, "Have you got any intelligence?" The man began to.... "Let me see." "What is that?" "I am seeing my pocket." "Why pocket?" "Intelligence means pocket." If there is money in my pocket, then there is intelligence. Otherwise, there is no intelligence. And Cāṇakya Paṇḍita also said, daridra-doṣo guṇa-rāśir nāśī. A man may be very, very big, qualified man, but if he's poor, everything's finished. Daridra-doṣo guṇa-rāśir nāśī.</p>
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