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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... ISKCON - Leadership and Management]]
[[Category:Questions On... Disciplic Succession]]
[[Category:Questions From... Journalists, Reporters, Writers]]
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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>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">I am training some, I mean to say, advanced students so that they may be very easily take up the charge. I have made them GBC. They are under my direct training, and I think they will be able to conduct this movement.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles|Room Conversation with Reporter -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Reporter: Would that person have to have contact with you and learn from you also?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, it is explained, there is no difficulty. But if there is difficulty to understand, then we have to approach a person who has understood Bhagavad-gītā. Otherwise the language is very plain, there is no difficulty. Unfortunately they bring their own interpretation and spoil the whole thing.</p>
<p>Reporter: Ah...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Otherwise where is the difficulty? Just like the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā it is said,</p>
:dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre
:samavetā yuyutsavaḥ
:māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva
:kim akurvata sañjaya
:([[Vanisource:BG 1.1 (1972)|BG 1.1]])
<p>The beginning of Bhagavad-gītā is the battlefield, and the battlefield is called Kurukṣetra. So Kurukṣetra is still there in India, but these so-called learned scholars, politicians, they're squeezing out some meaning out of Kurukṣetra. What is the necessity? Kurukṣetra is a place where actually, historically the battle took place. (Reporter changes cassette of tape recorder) (break)</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: ...culture</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Attentive.</p>
<p>Reporter: You don't see any slowing down of the impact of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. It can be slowed down unless we spoil it.</p>
<p>Reporter: Is there anyone who is designated to succeed you as the primary teacher of the movement?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I am training some, I mean to say, advanced students so that they may be very easily take up the charge. I have made them GBC. They are under my direct training, and I think they will be able to conduct this movement.</p>
<p>Reporter: Do you expect to name one person as your successor or have you already?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I am not contemplating now. But there is no need of one person. As other things are managed, but by committee, so this can also be managed, and the committee may elect one person as chief. As, just like in the democracy there are senators and there is president, so it may be I may nominate or they can nominate.</p>
<p>Reporter: Do you feel are you in good health now? You look it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. After all, of course I am some eighty, eighty years old. And I complete eighty years next September. So the age is there, although I am feeling not aged by..., the effect of age must be there.</p>
<p>Reporter: I didn't understand that.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: He says although.... Prabhupāda says although he's not feeling aged, the effect of age is there.</p>
<p>Reporter: When I interviewed you perhaps five or six years ago, it was before there were reports of the astronauts landing on the moon, and I asked you at that time if you thought, what you thought about it, and you said that, as I recall, that they would not be able to land or explore, because spirits or creatures that lived on the moon would not allow it. The reports of course said that indeed people did land and explore and return safely. I understand you have further thoughts about that (laughter) and you've even written a lot about it. I wonder if you could tell me, not at great length perhaps, but what your belief about those events is.</p>
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