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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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If you simply know Krsna, then you know everything. And if you know everything and you do not know Krsna, then you are rascal, that's all. Mudha. That is the test. If you know everything but do not know Krsna, then you are a rascal. And if you know Krsna, then you know everything automatically.
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Guest (1): Now we can understand it.

Prabhupāda: You could understand long ago, but difficulty is we accept this misinterpretation, spoiled understanding of ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Just like this gentleman was speaking he did not like Kṛṣṇa, he told me. He told me just now.

Bali-mardana: He did not like Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: They'll read ''Bhagavad-gītā'', and they'll not like Kṛṣṇa. This is their reading of ''Bhagavad-gītā''.

Indian man (2): They don't want to read it yet.

Prabhupāda: <span style="color:#ff9933">Aiyee, idhar aiyee.</span> <span style="color:#128807">Come, come here.</span> Now all Indians, they should take ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is and make their life fruitful. The Europeans and Americans, they are taking. Why Indians are not taking?

Indian lady: Is it because the Indians think that they know much about ''Bhagavad-gītā''? Being born a Hindu, they might think they know the religion, but not very much. They are not Kṛṣṇa conscious at all.

Prabhupāda: Just see. He knows everything, he does not know Kṛṣṇa? How he knows everything if he does not know Kṛṣṇa? If you think that you know everything, then you must know Kṛṣṇa. But if you do not know Kṛṣṇa, then what do you know? ''Yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati'' (''Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad'' 1.3). If you simply know Kṛṣṇa, then you know everything. And if you know everything and you do not know Kṛṣṇa, then you are rascal, that's all. ''Mūḍha''. That is the test. If you know everything but do not know Kṛṣṇa, then you are a rascal. And if you know Kṛṣṇa, then you know everything automatically.

Indian lady: I think they think they know it, but I'm sure they are not aware of it.

Prabhupāda: If they know Kṛṣṇa, why they do not come to the Kṛṣṇa's temple?

Indian man (2): Quite a number of them come here. I remember the days when I used to be the only Indian in the temple, seven, eight years ago.

Prabhupāda: Even though they are not coming, they should now come, and we can open many other temples if you come. We can maintain many other temples. You come and take advantage of it. Why you are losing your own culture? That is foolishness. You are Indians, and you do not know Kṛṣṇa. That is not a very good credit.
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