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[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1975]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Responding to Comments, 1975]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1975]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - in Venezuela, Caracas]]
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">That is her opinion. She is not authority.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Metaphysics Society -- February 21, 1975, Caracas|Room Conversation with Metaphysics Society -- February 21, 1975, Caracas]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Lady (Hṛdayānanda): She says that she sees it as a mantra, and from her point of view it seems like we're repeating this mantra over and over again, and it's something like hypnotism. For example, in some tribes there are different rituals. They are chanting different things, and she would like...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is her opinion. She is not authority.</p>
<p>Lady (Hṛdayānanda): She would like an explanation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is the statement in the Bhagavad-gītā. Satataṁ kīrtayanto mām ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]). Find it out.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda:</p>
:satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
:yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
:namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
:nitya-yuktā upāsate
:([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]])
<p>(reads translation in Spanish)</p>
<p>Lady (Hṛdayānanda): She wants to know if it's the same thing to chant oṁ or to chant "I am, I am."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "I am"? Where is that stated, "I am"? Where is the authority of "I am"?</p>
<p>Lady: (Spanish) Ke es, "Yo soy. Yo soy. Yo soy Dios." (Spanish)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He says directly, He says directly, satataṁ kīrtayanto mām ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]). Kṛṣṇa says, "You always chant My name." So why should we go to other things? God says that "You chant My name," so why should we go to other thing?</p>
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