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[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1971]]
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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="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1971 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1971 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">No, no. Hinduism is a foreign word, given by the Muslim. We don't find any word "Hindu" in the Vedic literature. Why do you call Hinduism? We are not preaching Hinduism. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with Reporters -- November 10, 1971, New Delhi|Interview with Reporters -- November 10, 1971, New Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Huh? There is no question of preference. Kṛṣṇa's creation, it is there. You are creating (indistinct) caste, jana-saṅgaś caste. Caste is already given, in a different name. How you can make casteless? That is not possible. The whole world—"I am American," "I am Indian"—this is caste, bigger caste. Yasyātma-buddhi-kuṇa. So long you will be under the concept of this body, there must be caste division. So we have to come to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there will be no caste. Just like these boys, Americans, Europeans, Africans, Canadians, they have no caste, they have no nationality. They are simply for Kṛṣṇa. That is casteless.</p>
<p>Reporter: So are they brāhmaṇas?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Reporter: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa conscious means brāhmaṇa. Brahma jānātīti brāhmaṇaḥ.</p>
<p>Reporter: Not by birth?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not by birth. They are brāhmaṇas by quality. They have got sacred thread. That is also there in the śāstra. Yasya hi yad lakṣaṇaṁ syat. Varṇa has been given. Varṇa. Varṇa, we want to compare symptoms. The brāhmaṇas are this: satya, samaḥ, damaḥ, titikṣa, ārjavam, jñānam vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]). This is the symptom of brāhmaṇa. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. If you find these symptoms anywhere, he is a brāhmaṇa.</p>
<p>Reporter: Except those who believe in Bhagavad-gītā, not (indistinct), sir. They don't believe in that. They believe caste by birth.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He does not know what is Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Reporter: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I say he does not know what is Bhagavad-gītā. If he believes in that way, that he does not know about Gītā.</p>
<p>Reporter: He says he's Hindu.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Maybe your Hinduism. You lick up your Hinduism. But we are creating real brāhmaṇa all over the world.</p>
<p>Reporter: I can see. What Lord Kṛṣṇa has stated, sir, that "I have created these four castes of āśrama..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Reporter: And I as myself, just, as not somebody told me, just my...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). Not by birth. Kṛṣṇa never says...</p>
<p>Reporter: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. These four castes... Not caste. We say caste, but varṇāśrama varṇa. Varṇa. Anyway, it is division. That division, vibhāga, the exact word is "division," not "caste." How you can say caste, it is not there, difference? Division, these four divisions are there. So these divisions are not made by birth. Just like if you are a lawyer. So in the society there are lawyers, engineers, medical men, they are divisions. But these lawyers, medical men or engineers, they are not born as engineer or as lawyer. That is mistake. Anyone who is qualified by the real knowledge, he is a lawyer. Not by birth. Suppose a lawyer's son, a big, big lawyer's son, does it mean that he's lawyer?</p>
<p>Reporter: No. But this is what we have been (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you have been something mistake. That should not be accepted.</p>
<p>Reporter: Well, sir, you should know the problem all that there is a...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that problem?</p>
<p>Reporter: All the (indistinct), harijanas will (indistinct) you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Reporter: If you proclaim that this is the real Hinduism, the people are getting fed up with Hinduism.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. No Hindu. Why you are bringing Hinduism?</p>
<p>Reporter: Our, this system...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Reporter: ...is only by Hindu...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Hinduism is a foreign word, given by the Muslim. We don't find any word "Hindu" in the Vedic literature. Why do you call Hinduism? We are not preaching Hinduism. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
<p>Reporter: By such a social system, social...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is, that you satisfy (indistinct). But this is a broad Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is broader than any system, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We are not preaching. We don't go to preach that "Oh, we are preaching Hinduism." But because those who are accepting this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, mostly they are Hindus, then you can call it like Hinduism. But this is not Hinduism.</p>
<p>Reporter: Sir, we are in illusion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. It is an illusory...</p>
<p>Reporter: Not illusory. I don't know how far Lalaji will go with you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Lalaji is already with me! (laughter)</p>
<p>Reporter: (laughter) (reporter makes jokes) (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Give them prasāda.</p>
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