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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... Scripture, Mantras]]
[[Category:Questions On... Yoga]]
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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">Bhakti-yoga... There are different types of yogas. And you will find, yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Alcohol and Drug Hospital People -- May 16, 1975, Perth|Room Conversation with Alcohol and Drug Hospital People -- May 16, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (2): Do you consider that this kind of practice or the practicing this kind of culture is regimentated? A person has to come in and spend sometimes in the temple, and...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, the association, the influence of association. If you go to a drunkard association, you become a drunkard. And if you go to a saintly association, you become a saint. Saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ. Find out.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa:</p>
:dhyāyato viṣayān puṁsaḥ
:saṅgas teṣūpajāyate
:saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ
:kāmāt krodho 'bhijāyate
<p>Translation: "While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If one becomes lusty and if it is not fulfilled, he becomes angry. This is all psychological.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Yeah, well, when a person is attached to that group in the temple, isn't this, become a lust too? You see, being influenced by the group and also attached to the people...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We are teaching to be influenced by Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we have written fifty books like that, four hundred pages. You can show some of our books.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: This is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Volume Two, Volume Four...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sixty volumes.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: Nectar of Devotion.</p>
<p>Guest (4): You seem to be placing a lot of emphasis on books. Are you following any particular path of yoga, niyama-yoga...?</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: She says we place a lot of emphasis on books, and she wonders if we are following a particular path such as dhyāna-yoga or jñāna-yoga or what?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bhakti-yoga.</p>
<p>Guest (4): Bhakti-yoga.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There are different types of yogas. And you will find</p>
:yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
:mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā
:śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
:sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 6.47 (1972)|BG 6.47]])
<p>You have found out? Read it.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa:</p>
:yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
:mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā
:śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
:sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 6.47 (1972)|BG 6.47]])
<p>Translation: "And of all yogis, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is bhakti-yoga.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Well, doesn't it mean that someone has to worship that person to be able to attain the enlightenment or Kṛṣṇa consciousness?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, everyone is worshiping a person. Everyone is... But we have to worship the Supreme Person. That is perfect. Everyone is worshiping a person. Suppose you are employed somewhere. You have to worship your boss. Otherwise no employment.</p>
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