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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Devotees - General]]
[[Category:Questions On... Process of Krsna Consciousness - Bhakti-yoga]]
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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">He cannot understand immediately. He must be patient. Utsāhān dhairyāt. Dhairya means patience. He cannot, if you have sown some seed, you cannot expect immediately tree and fruits. You must wait. You must nourish the plant, water it. Śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale karaye secana.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: There is a place in India, Jabalpura, there is a fall passing, Narmada, and these stones are all marble, first class. Very nice place. I went there.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: You mentioned in Hawaii how there are planets where instead of having grains of sand on the beach, they have jewels.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Jewels.</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: Some scientists find it hard to understand the description of different planets wherein there are oceans of milk, because we know that there's oceans of water here, and that water has to be there to create rain...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So why the rascal carry this idea there? Has he seen everything?</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: No, but he cannot understand how an ocean...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So how he can understand? He's a fool. How he can understand? (break) ...into the moon planet, what does he understand about water there? There are so many millions and trillions of planets. How he can understand what is there?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Where did the astronauts go?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They'll go to hell (laughter). To pick up some sand, as if sand is not there.</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: Śrīla Prabhupāda, is māyā especially empowering the scientists to come up with nonsense?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: It is all coming from Kṛṣṇa, though, isn't it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Because you want to be fool, Kṛṣṇa makes you a better fool.</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: He's also the greatest cheat.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (break) ...to become devotee. And if you want to become rogue, He'll give you all facility to become rogue. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]]). He's so kind.</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: Śrīla Prabhupāda, we're doing all these studies about science from a Kṛṣṇa conscious point of view, and yet the gopīs didn't care anything for this; they just simply wanted to love Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They did not care for anything except Kṛṣṇa. Therefore they are all perfect. Harer nāma harer nāma ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]).</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: Do we accept the way bacteria's reproduce, by fission, splitting in half? I know Kapiladeva instructs there are four different methods—the egg, the lump of flesh, etc. The scientists are saying that bacteria split in half and produce two daughter cells.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bacteria is produced from fermentation. Sveda-ja. Just like nasty bedding, from your perspiration, if you don't clean, then bugs will come. Sveda-ja. In India, the Europeans they eat meat, and automatically bugs and germs come within their coat and shirt due to bad perspiration.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: When you say that they're born from perspiration like cockroaches, does that mean that the eggs are laid by the female and then the atmosphere of perspiration enables the eggs to be hatched? Like that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, from the perspiration automatically it comes.</p>
<p>Sadāpūta: Prabhupāda, we say that everything is situated on desire, and as a person surrenders to Kṛṣṇa, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]]), He rewards accordingly. But people don't understand. Just like if there's a mother and father, and the child is not doing well, they try to mold that child's desire properly, the way that they see as proper.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, He's coming, Kṛṣṇa, personally, "Rascal, give up all these ideas. Surrender to Me." But who is accepting it? He's coming for this purpose; He's leaving His instruction, Bhagavad-gītā; He's sending His devotee; but who is caring to accept that? He's very much anxious to do good to you. If you don't accept, what can be done?</p>
<p>Vipina: In the case of a devotee...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Devotees, they accept. Therefore they are happy. And they'll be happy. They'll go back to home happy. One who accepts, he becomes happy.</p>
<p>Vipina: Well, in the case where a devotee is definitely sincerely following your instructions and applying himself to all these principles that Kṛṣṇa has outlined, then when there's difficulty for him, how is he to understand that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He cannot understand immediately. He must be patient. Utsāhān dhairyāt. Dhairya means patience. He cannot, if you have sown some seed, you cannot expect immediately tree and fruits. You must wait. You must nourish the plant, water it. Śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale karaye secana ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.152|CC Madhya 19.152]]).</p>
<p>Vipina: But if there is some difficulty that causes so much trouble in your service...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is impatience. That is impatience. Either he does not do properly his duty, or he is impatient.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Impatience means fruitive. Fruitive. He's looking for some results.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Immediate result, immediately.</p>
<p>Vipina: But isn't there a point, Prabhupāda, at which, you know, you can expect that you've been doing the right things, so there should be some relief?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everything takes time. Suppose a girl is married. So she wants a child. It does not mean today she's married and next day child. It is not possible. Wait. You'll have child.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): That is faith, Prabhupāda? If the woman has faith in the husband...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Faith or no faith, if they live husband and wife, there will be child. That's all. (break)</p>
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