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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1971]]
[[Category:Questions On... Surrender, Obedience, Renunciation]]
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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">Why shall I waste my time? Are you surrendered to me? If you are not surrendered to me... No, no. Stop this. Just try to understand. If you are not surrendered to me you have no right to ask me anything.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Discussion with Indians -- January 18, 1971, Allahabad|Discussion with Indians -- January 18, 1971, Allahabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (1): No, you see, our... Even your... Even your way of thinking and your purpose is that Lord Kṛṣṇa should be Lord of the whole universe, so...,</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, Lord Kṛṣṇa is lord, universe.</p>
<p>Guest (1): Universe?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (1): So that is what you want to talk with me.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (1): In that case, you will have to satisfy everybody.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I am satisfying everybody. I am preaching that. But it is not possible... I am preaching in Europe. Christians, Mohammedans, Jews, they are surrendering to Kṛṣṇa. So I am doing my duty.</p>
<p>Guest (1): If I would be permitted, I would very humbly submit that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You may not. You have not to surrender, you may bring some argument, but where I am preaching, they are surrendering.</p>
<p>Guest (1): You are doing a very wonderful work, there is no doubt about it, but the thing is that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But you do not like that wonderful work.</p>
<p>Guest (1): ...judging duty of what we are doing, this is somebody else and not we ourself.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now... What you... My point is that our society is clearly giving you the indication that we are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
<p>Guest (1): Every society has taken...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that's all right. If you like this Kṛṣṇa philosophy, you are welcome. Otherwise you leave.</p>
<p>Guest (1): We have come here...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because first of all see that you are...</p>
<p>Guest (1): If you reject...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Don't talk, all together. First of all you must know what is the truth. If your standard of truth is different and my standard of truth is different, then where is the use of talking nonsense? If you have any other truth than Kṛṣṇa, you be satisfied.</p>
<p>Guest (1): Seeking knowledge...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Seeking God is sufficient. If you take... First of all you know my position. Suppose...</p>
<p>Guest (2): I understand your position and I have from the beginning said most respectfully. I beg to submit and what my submission is that, as a seeker of knowledge, I come to you. Now...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, that... Do you know what is the process of seeking knowledge? Do you know that?</p>
<p>Guest (1): No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, first of all answer me. You are seeking knowledge...</p>
<p>Guest (2): The thing is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, you also hear me. First of all let me know what is the process of seeking knowledge. You cannot make your own process.</p>
<p>Guest (2): The concepts have changed. You are making a change from the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. First of all you know that I am speaking from Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā says, tad viddhi praṇipātena ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). Is it not? Tad viddhi praṇipātena. You have to surrender first of all.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Surrender to whom?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Anyone wherefrom you are seeking knowledge.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Ah! Surrender and...</p>
<p>Guest (1): You lose your identity.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. First of all you have to find out a person where you can surrender. Then you can ask and you can seek knowledge. Otherwise there is no... Simply waste of time. Why should you waste your time? Why shall I waste my time? Are you surrendered to me? If you are not surrendered to me...</p>
<p>Guest (2): I, I...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Stop this. Just try to understand. If you are not surrendered to me you have no right to ask me anything.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Before one surrenders to somebody, he should be satisfied first with the questions...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore... Yes. So that, that... Now that satisfaction, I cannot satisfy for your whims.</p>
<p>Guest (2): It is not a whim...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now, one thing is that I am preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you talk on Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you can ask me.</p>
<p>Guest (1): Yesterday you said in our nice gathering, I remember, that we have to rise above body consciousness.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That is in the Gītā.</p>
<p>Guest (2): And we have to be soul conscious.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Now, the idea of rising above body consciousness is to sell off the wild things, kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, ahaṅkāra.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Ahaṅkāra</p>
<p>Guest (1): Now, that is one thing that is there in all scriptures. The Gītā also says that kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, ahaṅkāra must be checked. Now, if we move with that pride and arrogance that "We are the only correct calling. This is the only correct path," and that "You have to surrender from the beginning," now that only aggravates the pride in a person.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then what can I do? Kṛṣṇa says... If you talk, two, I cannot answer. You talk with me, one.</p>
<p>Guest (2): No, we have talked with reasoning.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Don't talk, two. I cannot answer with all these reasons. Either you talk or then let him talk.</p>
<p>Guest (2): I am talking. I am talking now.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then you talk. Let him talk.</p>
<p>Guest (2): So we have to tear all these vices that are connected with our body. That is our purpose of getting into either bhakti, or nāma, bhāgavata or whatever it may be.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (2): But in that way, if you talk from that, another way of ahaṅkāra and pride, then things cannot go far. Things cannot go far.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So shall I answer now? Now you stop; I answer. Now Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]), ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi. So even though you have got so many sinful life, Kṛṣṇa assures that "If you surrender unto Me I shall give you protection from the reaction."</p>
<p>Guest (2): That is another thing. Kṛṣṇa...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa... Kṛṣṇa, yes. Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Surrender to Kṛṣṇa, not surrender to all who...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, no. Surrender to Kṛṣṇa. We are saying not "Surrender unto me." We say, always saying, "Surrender to Kṛṣṇa." Therefore the same word. I am not saying that "I have become Kṛṣṇa. I have become God. You surrender to me." We are preaching, "Surrender to Kṛṣṇa." That is Kṛṣṇa conscious. So we are not speaking differently from Kṛṣṇa. You try to understand. We are saying... Suppose if I say, "Give me a glass of water," and if you say, "Oh, give Swamiji immediately a glass of ...," the same thing.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Kṛṣṇa also says in Gītā that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, first of all you try to understand this, that Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ: ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]) "only unto Me."</p>
<p>Guest (3): "I am the only one." Sarva-dharmān...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Again you are speaking. I am talking with him. Again you are speaking. No, no. I cannot answer in that way. Let him talk. No, no. You stopped me. Let him talk. Otherwise it is not possible. You put some question; he puts some question. It is not possible. Now Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). Now what do you say? He is very proud?</p>
<p>Guest (2): He's entitled to be proud. If a person has said that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes?</p>
<p>Guest (2): Let him say that, but it doesn't mean everybody will be able to follow. That doesn't mean that. Maybe He has said.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But then He doesn't say. You say, "If you follow me." Now it is your discretion to follow Him or not to follow Him. Kṛṣṇa said this to Arjuna. That does not mean everyone of the world, like Arjuna, surrenders to Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible. Anyone, if he says, even Kṛṣṇa, or God, says, it is not that everyone follows that. That independence you have got. But our philosophy is that Kṛṣṇa says, "You surrender unto Me," and we are imploring, we are begging persons, that "You please surrender to Kṛṣṇa." Now it is your discretion. Whether you surrender to Kṛṣṇa or Lord Śiva, that is your discretion. But our preaching method is we are trying to preach in the world, "Please surrender to Kṛṣṇa." That is our position.</p>
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