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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Good leadership means you must learn how to lead people. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ (BG 3.21). If the śreṣṭha, the leader, is ideal, then others will follow. But if the leader is not ideal, if he is not in the awareness of things, then people will be misguided.
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Mr. Tombe: After all, even if it is thrown out . . .

Prabhupāda: That is also answered in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' by very strong word. ''Bhāgavata'' says, ''śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 2.3.19|SB 2.3.19]]). If the public is like dogs, camel, hogs and asses, so what is the value of their election? He'll elect another big dog or camel. So there is chaos.

Mr. Tombe: Then how to throw out good leadership?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Good leadership means you must learn how to lead people. ''Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 3.21 (1972)|BG 3.21]]). If the ''śreṣṭha'', the leader, is ideal, then others will follow. But if the leader is not ideal, if he is not in the awareness of things, then people will be misguided.

Mr. Tombe: So how can we chalk out a program of, say, training of leaders from villages . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes. You have to take lessons from the biggest leader, Kṛṣṇa. ''Aham ādir hi devānām'' ([[vanisource:BG 10.2 (1972)|BG 10.2]]). He's the leader of the demigods also. We have to take lesson from. That lesson is there, ''Bhagavad-gītā''. But we do not take it. We manufacture our leadership. That is the defect. What Kṛṣṇa says . . . Everyone is proud of reading ''Bhagavad-gītā'', but the purpose of ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is how to kill Kṛṣṇa, that's all. That is their . . . All these. What can I say? These misleaders, they are doing that. Leadership is already there—Kṛṣṇa. Just like Arjuna is learning from Kṛṣṇa. So if you learn from Kṛṣṇa you become perfect leader. But we do not take Kṛṣṇa's instruction. We manufacture our own ideas. That is failure. Otherwise in our country so many learned sages, especially Kṛṣṇa is there, and their books are there, their instructions are there. We do not take them. Still we become leader. So what kind of leading? He's imperfect, so he cannot lead. Then there will be some mistake and chaos. Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu said . . . He said, ''bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra'' ([[vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]]). You understand little Bengali?

:''bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra''
:''janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra''
:([[vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]])

So Indians, they can make their life perfect by following this Vedic literature, and they can lead the whole world.
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