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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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If they do not accept authority, why they become authority? Who will accept them? If everything is depending on mental speculation, then why they should be accepted as authority?.
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Yaśomatīnandana: They don't accept it (Bhagavad-gita) is written by Vedavyāsa.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Yaśomatīnandana: They don't . . . they are such atheistic people, they do not accept that it is written by Vedavyāsa.

Prabhupāda: That's all right, but others accept it.

Yaśomatīnandana: Yes, the vast people do accept.

Prabhupāda: Vedavyāsa is accepted by Śaṅkarācārya. Vyāsadeva. Vyāsa-guru.

Yaśomatīnandana: They think that some Vaiṣṇava wrote it and put the name of Vedavyāsa. They are so demoniac.

Prabhupāda: Yes, they say like that. Then other ''ācāryas'', they are also fools?

Yaśomatīnandana: I think they place all the other ''ācāryas ''after Śaṅkarācārya.

Prabhupāda: . . . ''ācāryas''. But their ''paramparā ''system is very old. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. (break) . . . ''Bhagavad-gītā''? No.

Yaśomatīnandana: They don't accept it as . . . they do not accept ''Gītā ''as spoken by some person Kṛṣṇa five thousand years ago on the battlefield.

Prabhupāda: Anyway, do they accept the authority of ''Bhagavad-gītā'' or not?

Yaśomatīnandana: They say it's a very nice book of knowledge. They don't want to pursue spiritual life.

Prabhupāda: Then why they become authority?

Yaśomatīnandana: Yes, that is their rascaldom.

Prabhupāda: If they do not accept authority, why they become authority? Who will accept them? If everything is depending on mental speculation, then why they should be accepted as authority?

Yaśomatīnandana: That they cannot answer. Only insincere people, foolish people, they are misled by them. Otherwise I don't think anybody even knows their philosophy. Everyone knows your philosophy because they see your disciples, and no one goes to read their books. Mostly I see in their books, "First edition, copies two thousand," "three thousand," something like that. And you never see a second edition.
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