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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions In the Parking Lot]]
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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">And that Burmese said, "We don't believe in God." And you don't believe in God. You don't... Why you believe Lord Buddha? He is God.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 17, 1975, Perth|Morning Walk -- May 17, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The whole world is rascal. Anyone who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, he is a rascal. Take it for granted. This is the test. That is stated in the Bhāgavata, na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ SB 7.5.31 . These rascals, they do not know what is his self-interest. He is simply enamored by the external energy and trying to make adjustment of things. Andhā yathāndhair upanīya... He is a rascal, and his leader is also rascal. Te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ. These rascals do not know they are bound up, hands and legs, by the laws of nature, and they are making solution, problem. Just like this geographer is making solution and all of a sudden will die. And then another rascal will come into that place to make solution. The problem will remain, and they will come and go. They will come and go. Napoleon came for solution, Hitler came for solution, Gandhi came for solution, but when Napoleon was offered a horse's urine instead of water, he could not make any solution.</p>
<p>When Gandhi was fired to death, he could not make a solution. And they were leaders for solution. What they can do? Every one of them is under strict laws of nature. As nature will do, they will have to submit. And what they will make? They are not independent. Nobody knows where is Hitler. Such a big man, he hid or he killed himself, something done, but nobody knows. And one day he become the master of the whole universe. This is going on.</p>
<p>Amogha: But maybe by our study... We are all imperfect, but if we keep compiling the information, then after so many years they will have all the information...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They... You do not take the right information. Right information is with us. That you refuse to take. Your information is zero. Compiling of zeros does not make any value. It is all zero. Take information from us. Then it will be beneficial. You are taking information from all universe except our this solid information given by Kṛṣṇa. That is your policy. Mūḍho nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam. You have read this verse? "The mūḍha, rascal, he does not know the ultimate background is I am." That he does not know. What is the use of his information? And in the Vedas it is said yam eva viditvā sarvam idam... There is a mantra, that "Only understanding Kṛṣṇa, you understand everything." Yam eva viditvā sarvam idaṁ vedituṁ bhavanti.</p>
<p>Amogha: But how can we understand all this science and technology just by understanding Kṛṣṇa, just by one book?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not one book. You cannot read them throughout your whole life, there are so many books.</p>
<p>Amogha: I don't think they have any argument.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What argument? They are fools, rascals. What argument?</p>
<p>Amogha: Yesterday they did not know what to say.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Nobody could say against me. Maunaṁ śamyati labdhaḥ .(?) If they remain silent, that means they have accepted. I charge you that "You are thief," and if you don't protest, then you are thief. If you are not thief, immediately you will: "How you say? Why you have said?" There will be fight. But if you remains silent, that proves that you are thief. So they could not give us any counterargument. Therefore they accepted.</p>
<p>Amogha: Their biggest problem is that there isn't any counterargument.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. As soon as I told them, "Who is there without father?"</p>
<p>Amogha: Then they tried a little bit. They said, "Everyone has a father, so who's God's father?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I answered, that "That is God."</p>
<p>Amogha: Then they were defeated.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God means that without father, He can, He will exist. That is God. That is the difference between you and God. </p>
<p>Amogha: How can darkness argue with the sunlight? Their trying to argue is just like darkness trying to argue with the sunlight.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And that Burmese said, "We don't believe in God." And you don't believe in God. You don't... Why you believe Lord Buddha? He is God.</p>
<p>Amogha: Then he said, "But there is no God mentioned in Buddhism. There is nirvāṇa."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right, but you worship Buddha. Why?</p>
<p>Amogha: Because he spoke about nirvāṇa. In Burma many people are Buddhist. They say they are Buddhist.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Till now, 2,600 years past from the Buddhist community, from other groups and Arabia, very big religionist or philosophers has come. They are all in darkness. It was for the time being. The Buddhist religion was for the time. Atheist class men... (end)</p>
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