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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Don't disturb them, that "These are strange people." No, we don't want that. But we must have our position. Tilaka is our position. Tilaka must be there. And so far dress is concerned, you can dress up to the taste of the modern people.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- March 31, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- March 31, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Ten thousand dollars means one lakh of rupees. So we shall save from that luxury department. And this is solid work, yes. It must be done. Without any hesitation, without any impediment. That will increase our prestige of the movement. And go in good dress because people...</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: In suits.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In suit, yes. You get first dress, then address. (laughter) But tilaka must be there. You dress like up-to-date gentlemen, but tilaka must be there. That is our trademark.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Some hair for him is all right? Little bit of hair.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I don't think hair is required. Nowadays many gentlemen shaven.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Shaved head.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Many gentlemen. I have seen many Russian scholars and politicians, they shave clean.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: There is a very big American actor who always has a shaved head.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is now fashion, shaved head. But if you think it is impediment, you can have hair.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: In India it is all right, but in the West, especially in the United States...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then you keep hair. I have no objection. That should not be an impediment. Whichever you... But tilaka is objectionable?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh, no. Tilaka we can always have.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's nice. Then it is all right. You belong to Hare Kṛṣṇa. That should be there. That cannot be...</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: I would use tilaka many times when I was doing my thesis, also like this, but in giving lectures, especially amongst the scientists, sometimes if we come with head shaved, sometimes they think it very strange. We can do it when...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, no. Don't disturb them, that "These are strange people." No, we don't want that. But we must have our position. Tilaka is our position. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's stricture. You will not see one face if there is no tilaka. He used to say it is cremation ground. Yes, without tilaka. Pasanta mukha.(?) Tilaka must be there. And so far dress is concerned, you can dress up to the taste of the modern people.</p>
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