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[[Category:Our Following (Disciples of SP)]]
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[[Category:My Teachings (Prabhupada)]]
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[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1976]]
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<div class="section" id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2></div>

<div class="sub_section" id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3></div>

<div class="quote" book="Con" link="Press Interview -- December 31, 1976, Bombay" link_text="Press Interview -- December 31, 1976, Bombay">
<div class="heading">Therefore we follow the śāstras and we teach others to follow śāstras. If you like you can do.</div>


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<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Press Interview -- December 31, 1976, Bombay|Press Interview -- December 31, 1976, Bombay]]:''' <br />
Indian reporter: It is there in ''śāstras''.

Prabhupāda: Yes. And if you don't care for the ''śāstras'', if you manufacture your own way, then, as it is stated, ''na siddhiṁ sāvāpnoti'' ([[vanisource:BG 16.23 (1972)|BG 16.23]]). You'll never be successful. ''Na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim''. Neither happiness nor better life will be next or the supreme goal. These things finished. ''Yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 16.23 (1972)|BG 16.23]]). If you do not take the guidance of the ''śāstra'' then all your hope is finished. You can hope, but you'll never be. This is our . . . therefore we ''follow'' the ''śāstras'' and we teach others to follow ''śāstras''. If you like, you can do. Otherwise, do whatever you like. But you don't manufacture and spoil my life and others. You don't do.
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