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| [[Category:Questions On... Devotional Dress, Paraphernalia]] | | [[Category:Questions On... Devotional Dress, Paraphernalia]] |
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| I have not said that you dress like that. You like, you dress. Did I say that you do it?. | | I have not said that you dress like that. You like, you dress. Did I say that you do it? |
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| Mr. Chenique: Not because they do something wrong that somebody else has to do something wrong. | | Mr. Chenique: Not because they do something wrong that somebody else has to do something wrong. |
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| Prabhupāda: No, no. Thing is that just like there are scholars, the scholars also go. Just like you are doing in India. Why did you go to India? Why did you go to India and live there and (indistinct)? Therefore anyone can come to study, to learn how to teach. That is human society. You cannot say that "You don't come here." You cannot say. | | Prabhupāda: No, no. Thing is that just like there are scholars, the scholars also go. Just like you are doing in India. Why did you go to India? Why did you go to India and live there and . . . (indistinct) . . .? Therefore anyone can come to study, to learn how to teach. That is human society. You cannot say that "You don't come here." You cannot say. |
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| Prabhupāda: Then you cannot say that "Why you have come here?" You cannot say. | | Prabhupāda: Then you cannot say that, "Why you have come here?" You cannot say. |
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| Jyotirmayī: No, no. He's saying why are we dressing like that, like Indians? | | Jyotirmayī: No, no. He's saying why are we dressing like that, like Indians? |
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| Prabhupāda: I have not said that you dress like that. You like, you dress. Did I say that you do it? | | Prabhupāda: I have not said that you dress like that. You like, you dress. Did I say that you do it? |
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| Priest: It's like the Indian Catholic priest dressing like a (indistinct) priest or like a European priest. I mean, they look as if they had a disguise with them. I don't know if you have been to... | | Priest: It's like the Indian Catholic priest dressing like a . . . (indistinct) . . . priest or like a European priest. I mean, they look as if they had a disguise with them. I don't know if you have been to . . . |
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| Prabhupāda: No, no. Just like when the English were ruling, English national. So the Englishmen never said that "You dress like Englishmen," but they automatically dressed. You know very well. It is like that. The Englishmen, they went there to get some money by trade, by politics. But they never went there to change their dress. But they thought that "If I dress myself like Englishman, I will be more honored." That is their point. Similarly, we never preach that "You dress like this." But the student, they like this dress. That's all right. What is the wrong there? | | Prabhupāda: No, no. Just like when the English were ruling, English national. So the Englishmen never said that, "You dress like Englishmen," but they automatically dressed. You know very well. It is like that. The Englishmen, they went there to get some money by trade, by politics. But they never went there to change their dress. But they thought that, "If I dress myself like Englishman, I will be more honored." That is their point. Similarly, we never preach that "You dress like this." But the student, they like this dress. That's all right. What is the wrong there? |
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| Prabhupāda: Yes. Rather, these girls, when they dress in Indian way, they look more beautiful. That you will have to admit. Yes. The same girl will dress in your coun... way. | | Prabhupāda: Yes. Rather, these girls, when they dress in Indian way, they look more beautiful. That you will have to admit. Yes. The same girl will dress in your coun . . . way. |
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| Priest: That I am (indistinct) for it. (laughs) | | Priest: That I am . . . (indistinct) . . . for it. (laughs) |
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| Prabhupāda: So the girls, the women, they like to be more beautiful. So if by dressing in other way they look beautiful, why should you ask them not to do it? | | Prabhupāda: So the girls, the women, they like to be more beautiful. So if by dressing in other way they look beautiful, why should you ask them not to do it? |
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| Priest: Maybe for ladies and girls certainly, but for the dhotī and... | | Priest: Maybe for ladies and girls certainly, but for the ''dhotī'' and . . . |
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