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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions In the Parking Lot]]
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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="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">"Here we are, but where are the swami's disciples?" Ask them.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- August 27, 1975, Vrndavana|Morning Walk -- August 27, 1975, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Akṣayānanda: They are also envious of you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I know that. Do they say like that?</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: Not directly. But when we explain how many things, what is being done and we show photographs, how people have become devotees, they will say, "Yes, but have you heard of Swami so and so?" And we'll say, "Yes, we have heard of him. But our Guru Mahārāja has got thousands of devotees all over the world." "Yes, he has also got thousands of devotees." They'll minimize, even though it's there in black and white.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But where they are?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Yeah. Where are those thousands of disciples of these other swamis?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "Here we are, but where are the swami's disciples?" Ask them.</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: Then they will become angry.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "No, no. Well, don't be angry. Well, Bhaktivedanta Swami's disciples, we are present here. Present anyone else. So how shall I believe you?"</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: Then they will say, "We are doing the same as you. But we don't have to help you because we are already doing the same thing. We are feeding the poor, giving charity."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. They do not understand.</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: But yet their children are eating eggs, giving up. (break)</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: ...say that they are doing the same thing that we are doing, then that should be a reason to help us, not to not help us. If we're doing the same thing, therefore if you are helping one, then you must help the other also.</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: Yes. That's what I tell them. They say, "We already helped the other, but you came too late, so therefore we can't help you."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "So you are so poor?"—(aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa—"that you cannot help the second man? Then how you are charitable? You must be open to give charity to everyone." No use talking.</p>
<p>French devotee (1): They are very rich, Śrīla Prabhupāda. They are very rich.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Richer than us? (laughter) Do you think?</p>
<p>French devotee (1): No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How many branches he has got of his business?</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: So I usually tell them, "It is not for us that we want help, but so that we can help others." They like that. They can appreciate humanitarian viewpoint, material benefit. That's all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So we are giving the best humanitarian service—to stop his repetition of birth and death.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: The final solution.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: This is the final solution.</p>
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