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<div class="heading">Just like "Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this." So if you have faith, you will not do it. But because you have no faith, you will do it, and therefore you will go to ruin.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- July 21, 1975, San Francisco|Morning Walk -- July 21, 1975, San Francisco]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nārāyaṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, but Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that wherever one puts their faith, He gives them the steadiness to worship in that way. So how come so many people, they put their faith in all these false gurus or people that impose themself as ones who are in knowledge and then they become fooled? Is this previous activities? Sinful activities?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that?</p>
<p>Jayādvaita: You explained that in your lecture yesterday, that Kṛṣṇa is in the heart and He is giving direction to remember or to forget, that sometimes He is directing to remember Him, sometimes to forget Him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Because if you have no faith, then Kṛṣṇa will not give you instruction. When he is faithless, he will not make progress. Stops.</p>
<p>Nārāyaṇa: But people are putting their faith in so many different places.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "So many" means he has no faith in anything.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: As soon as you say, "so many," that means he has no faith. He is faithless.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda? If you say that purity is required for faith to develop, what are the symptoms by which one can be said to be pure?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is... Just like "Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this." So if you have faith, you will not do it. But because you have no faith, you will do it, and therefore you will go to ruin.</p>
<p>Yadubara: The karmīs have faith that the sun will come up every day.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Yadubara: So that is actually faith in the workings of the Supreme, Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is your idea? I do not follow. Everyone knows the sun will appear, faithless or faith.</p>
<p>Yadubara: Is that faith?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not faith. It is fact. He is seeing every day.</p>
<p>Bahulāśva: Śrīla Prabhupāda, the scientists will argue...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is faith—means on knowledge. So faith with knowledge is very good. But beginning must be faith, with knowledge or without knowledge.</p>
<p>Bahulāśva: Śrīla Prabhupāda, the scientists will argue that Kṛṣṇa consciousness won't be scientifically accepted if it's just based on...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The scientists, how they can argue like that? Therefore they are rascals. First of all they explain something theoretically: "Hydrogen, oxygen-mix together it becomes water." It is faith. Then it is practically shown in the laboratory. So faith is the beginning. Theoretical knowledge means faith. Then experiment.</p>
<p>Baradrāj: The Vedic knowledge is also that way, very scientific.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Bahulāśva: So first we hear from the guru that Kṛṣṇa is God, and we have faith in that, we chant, and then we come to know.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: As you become purified, then your faith becomes fixed up with knowledge. Therefore that is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpam: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.28 (1972)|BG 7.28]]) "One who has finished his sinful life, he can become a devotee." Otherwise one cannot. First of all, beginning in faith. Then, by following the process, he becomes completely sinless. Then he, full knowledge. And so long he will be sinful, the things will be not properly manifested. Yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpam.</p>
<p>Baradrāj: So knowledge is not necessary for faith but faith is necessary for knowledge.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore devotee, without any knowledge he becomes devotee. That faith, only faith. The devotee advances. Jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukī. Later on, they become automatically full of knowledge because they have strong faith. That is also stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Teṣām evānukampārtham aham ajñāna-jaṁ tamaḥ nāśayāmy: ([[Vanisource:BG 10.11 (1972)|BG 10.11]]) "Because he is faithful, therefore I help him how to get knowledge." Again you come to that. Mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca ([[Vanisource:BG 15.15 (1972)|BG 15.15]]). Everything is there.</p>
<p>Jayādvaita: Your lecture yesterday was so nice, Śrīla Prabhupāda, everything, so many ideas from Bhagavad-gītā, all explained and put together so nicely.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: Blind faith is the belief that little...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Blind faith, without... That I have already explained. Immediately, why do you forget? He shows me, "Prabhupāda, come this way." So I have no faith. Why shall I go? Then I have stop here, finished, movement finished. So you have to keep faith blindly. And if the man who is giving direction, he is perfect, then your faith will make you advanced. But if you go to a rascal cheater and if you have faith, blind faith, then you are lost.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: Just like that little rock that I saw, that it's from the moon. Now that is blind faith.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, blind faith.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: In the wrong thing.</p>
<p>Bahulāśva: Socrates also, he was discussing epistemology, and he said that faith or belief is as good as knowledge for all practical purposes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. The same thing: the child has no knowledge, but he has faith in his parents, and he believes what his parents says. Then he is making progress.</p>
<p>Bahulāśva: This way.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I have faith in you. (break) Now, I give sometimes this example. Just like you go to a barber shop, and you put your neck like this, and he is with the razor. So unless you have faith, "No, he is good man. He will not cut my throat," how can you do so? So faith is the beginning. If you have no... If you say, "No, I have no faith in you," then you cannot be cleansed.</p>
<p>Baradrāj: That example became very clear when we went to India. (Prabhupāda &amp; devotees laugh) Because the barbers are so, they look like they could cut your throat.</p>
<p>Bahulāśva: You have to have a lot of faith.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He can do that, but you must have faith. Otherwise no shaving.  So many... Suppose you are going to some unknown place. Now we are purchasing, paying two thousand dollars, ticket. But where is the guarantee that you will go there? You are paying first money, but there is no guarantee that you will go there. Then how do you get the ticket? How do you get on the plane unless, without faith? So faith, without faith you cannot move an inch. It must be there. [break] ...believe, "No, no, this ticket is issued by the Pan American. They are good company, and so many people are going. So I will go also." That's all. So faith. You never went there, neither you know whether it will be possible to go there. But still, you have to do. That is faith.</p>
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