Older (Conversations)
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Conversations and Morning Walks
1967 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the beginning of...
Hayagrīva: A scene of Nivas...
Prabhupāda: At Śrīnivāsa's house.
Hayagrīva: Are the people mainly young people like Himself?
Prabhupāda: Yes, they were all young.
Hayagrīva: Or are they older brāhmaṇas?
Prabhupāda: Older, only these...
Hayagrīva: Only the three, yes.
Prabhupāda: Haridāsa, Śrīnivāsa, and Advaita. They were taking part. Otherwise, all, they were young friends, yes. Young boys. No girls. That is not the system in India. (laughs) Yes.
Hayagrīva: Now this third scene, meets Sanātana Gosvāmī, that's in Benares. And Sanātana is how old?
Prabhupāda: Sanātana was older than Rūpa Gosvāmī. He was the eldest. He was not less than about 65 or 70 years old. He was old man. Sufficiently old man.
1968 Conversations and Morning Walks
Interview -- February 1, 1968, Los Angeles:
Interviewer: I notice that most of your followers, at least in this temple, are young, like in the college age or in the teenage. Is it because Kṛṣṇa doesn't attract the older generation, I mean, yourself excluded?
Prabhupāda: No. Kṛṣṇa attracts everyone. Just like magnetic stone attracts iron. But the iron is covered with too much muddy things—the magnetic force does not work. This younger generation, they are not too much dirty; therefore they are very easily attracted. You see? It is like a magnetic force. The same example, that magnetic force attracts iron. That is natural. But if the iron is too much rusty and covered with muddy things, then it does not act. So older generation means they are convinced in some way. They cannot accept any new thing. You see? They are in the last stage of life. Whatever they have understood, they cannot forget. But younger generation, they have got capacity to take new things. Just like nobody goes... No old man goes to school because they are unable to receive education. But younger generation, they go. So there is a age to receive. So this age is recipient. Therefore naturally—it is nice thing—they are receiving.
| Page Title: | Older (Conversations) |
| Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Partha-sarathi |
| Created: | 29 of Nov, 2008 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=67, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 67 |