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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... Preaching, Spreading Krsna Consciousness]]
[[Category:Questions On... Eastern, Western]]
[[Category:Questions On... ISKCON - Temples and Centers]]
[[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="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">We have got our headquarter in Los Angeles and we have got many centers all over the world.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Conference -- July 9, 1975, Chicago|Press Conference -- July 9, 1975, Chicago]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Reporter: This four-division society that you advocate is contrary to everything in American tradition. How can that be accepted in America?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That has to be trained up. Just like in your country there are medical, professional men, the engineering class of men, the lawyers class of men, similarly, you can train how to become a first-class man. The training process is there in the Bhagavad-gītā. Where is Bhagavad-gītā? Bring it. Śamo damaḥ titikṣa satyaṁ śaucam ārjavam. The... Just like you have got formula how to train medical man, how to train in the mechanical man, or different department of knowledge, similarly, you can train how to become first-class man. How to become second-class man. The direction are already there. You can take advantage of the direction and train people as first-class, second-class, third-class.</p>
<p>Reporter: When does this training begin? In the very youngest age or...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Training, every training should begin from childhood. Just like you send your boys and girls to school. So any educational system should be begin from childhood.</p>
<p>Reporter (2): What is the secret to learning to love God?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Secret of learning God?</p>
<p>Jagadīśa: Learning to love.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. The secret—that he must be a first-class man. Otherwise he does not understand what is God, and what to speak of loving Him.</p>
<p>Reporter (3): What is the definition again of a first-class man?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: First-class man? Where is that Bhagavad-gītā?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Bhagavad-gītā, they did not bring.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (aside:) What is the nonsense? You are all nonsense. First-class man, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, that he should first of all try to..., not try, practice how to control the mind, how to control the senses. Then he must be truthful. He must be very clean, outside and inside. He must be very simple. He must be tolerant. He must be full of knowledge. He must apply knowledge in practical life. And he must believe in God. These are the qualification of the first-class man.</p>
<p>Reporter (2): Once a person is trained in one of the classes, can he move to another class once he's been trained as, say, a third-class man?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Any class man, you can train him. It requires training. Even one is in the last-class, fourth-class, fifth-class, sixth-class, if he likes he can be trained up to become a first-class man.</p>
<p>Reporter (3): How many followers do you have?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, to find out first-class man is very difficult. Therefore, our followers, you cannot count a large number. We are training them to become first-class man. Still, we have got about ten thousand followers in the western countries.</p>
<p>Reporter (3): In the western countries.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Reporter (3): Where do you train them in the western countries?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have got our headquarter in Los Angeles and we have got many centers all over the world.</p>
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