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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Other Religions, Religion in General]]
[[Category:Questions From... Journalists, Reporters, Writers]]
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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">The difference is they are not following the original literature. They are manufacturing their own literature. That is the difference. Not authorized.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Radio Interview -- July 27, 1976, London|Radio Interview -- July 27, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mike Robinson: I see. Now, we've had two readings from your scriptures. Where did these scriptures comes from? Can you explain that briefly?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is coming from Vedic literature, which is eternal. That is also eternal. But when there is creation, this creation, material creation, anything, material creation.... Just like this microphone is a material creation. So how to deal with it, there is some literature. Is it not?</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: How to deal with the microphone?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. There is some literature.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: There's some literature explaining.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Yes, that's right, there is.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So that literature comes along with the creation of the microphone. So similarly, the Vedic literatures comes immediately with the creation.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: I see. So these scriptures have been in existence since we have, is what you're saying. What about other scriptures, other religions have got their scriptures. Do you believe, do you accept them?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Any scriptures, any.... Just like the same example. The literature issued along with the manufacturer of this microphone is bona fide. So if anyone follows that bona fide literature, he can deal with it. Otherwise, a bogus.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: I see. Well, if we could take something which I believe you feel very strongly about, and that's some of the other Eastern cults and gurus.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I cannot study.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Yes, can you explain to me why it is that...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So far I know, they do not know anything. They simply come and bluff and cheat, that's all.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: I see. What are the big differences that you seem to be...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The difference is they are not following the original literature. They are manufacturing their own literature. That is the difference. Not authorized.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: I mean of the big differences I'm noticing is that you are stressing very much science and rational thinking, and they very often stress feeling, which doesn't seem to...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. When there is something wrong, you just consult the original literature, not any literature issued by a bogus man.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Can you explain to me, then, the place of feeling in your religion. The place of emotions.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Our feeling is that we are dealing with the genuine thing, that's all.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: And can..., if we can go on with that. Everybody seems to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa a lot of times during the day.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the easiest process to become purified, especially given in this age. Because people are so dull that they cannot understand spiritual understanding very easily. So in order to purify him, this chanting is especially offered, that if he chants Hare Kṛṣṇa, then his brain becomes purified to understand spiritual things.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: You say it's the simplest one. Are there presumably other chants that maybe you yourself use?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I don't think there is any other chanting. This is the only chanting. Where is other chanting? You can manufacture so many, but this is the only, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Yes.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: I see. Let's see, what else? You founded this movement I think it was ten years ago, that's correct. Why was it that you left till you were so late in life before you founded it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I must be prepared, I must be bona fide to preach.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: And how do you become qualified? How did you become qualified?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is a spiritual process.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: And so you presumably had your teachers.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Just as you now are teaching many...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If one is going to pass M.A. examination, he must be qualified. Not that all of a sudden one becomes M.A. He must be qualified.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: So what are you doing now? You've come to England for a brief stay. I gather you travel a lot.</p>
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