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| [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] |
| [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]] |
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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> | | <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 class="heading">Yes, that is decided by Kṛṣṇa. Find out this verse. Yeṣāṁ tu anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām. | | <div class="heading">Yes, that is decided by Kṛṣṇa. Find out this verse. Yeṣāṁ tu anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Dr. Copeland, Professor of Modern Indian History -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Dr. Copeland, Professor of Modern Indian History -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Copeland: But you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Dr. Copeland, Professor of Modern Indian History -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Dr. Copeland, Professor of Modern Indian History -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, they look very nice with this dress. Don't you appreciate?</p> |
| | <p>Dr. Copeland: Uh, that wasn't in my question, That's... (laughs). Yes, I think it's very nice, I couldn't do it. I wouldn't shave my hair, and I wouldn't dress like that.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: You cannot sacrifice so much. They have sacrificed.</p> |
| | <p>Dr. Copeland: Aḥ, I sacrifice up here.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: They have got a spirit of sacrifice.</p> |
| | <p>Dr. Copeland: But you ask a great deal of people. So why do you think they're willing to give?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: No, I ask only four things: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling. That's all. But these four things are very, very, difficult for the Western people. That I know. Just see. God consciousness cannot be achieved by any third-class man. One must be the topmost first-class man. Then he can become God conscious.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: No, I ask only four things: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling. That's all. But these four things are very, very, difficult for the Western people. That I know. Just see. God consciousness cannot be achieved by any third-class man. One must be the topmost first-class man. Then he can become God conscious.</p> |
| <p>Dr. Copeland: And who decides what is first class?</p> | | <p>Dr. Copeland: And who decides what is first class?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is decided by Kṛṣṇa. Find out this verse. Yeṣāṁ tu anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām. (Prabhupāda is coughing) Give me water. Te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.28|BG 7.28]]). Kṛṣṇa says who can become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. That definition is there.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is decided by Kṛṣṇa. Find out this verse. Yeṣāṁ tu anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām. (Prabhupāda is coughing) Give me water. Te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.28 (1972)|BG 7.28]]). Kṛṣṇa says who can become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. That definition is there.</p> |
| <p>Madhudviṣa:</p> | | <p>Madhudviṣa:</p> |
| :yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ | | :yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ |
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| :te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā | | :te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā |
| :bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ | | :bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 7.28|BG 7.28]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 7.28 (1972)|BG 7.28]]) |
| <p>This is from the Bhagavad-gītā. Translation: "Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life, whose sinful actions are completely eradicated, and who are freed from the duality of delusion, engage themselves in My service with determination."</p> | | <p>This is from the Bhagavad-gītā. Translation: "Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life, whose sinful actions are completely eradicated, and who are freed from the duality of delusion, engage themselves in My service with determination."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So this is not very ordinary thing. Pāpam, sinful life... At the present moment people are very, very much addicted to sinful life.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
