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[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1976]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Responding to Comments, 1976]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1976]]
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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 think our students who are going to be ministers, they are excused from draft.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: I think in Mauritius there is good field. They adopted culture.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The problem in Mauritius has been that either they don't know how to collect, or they say it's a very poor country and they're not able to get funds to start any kind of a dynamic program.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They cannot chant even?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Chanting they do.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is wanted. We don't want money. So give them directly.</p>
<p>Jagat-guru: Also, Śrīla Prabhupāda.... (too faint)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: South African mission, very good.</p>
<p>Devotee: At this present moment, Prabhupāda, we have a really unique situation, the best of all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Devotee: A unique situation in South Africa, because there are many Europeans that are being drafted into the Army, but they will not allow the Indians to be drafted. They don't want them to go into the military forces because they're afraid they're too intelligent.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Some of our brahmacārīs, they've been drafted into the army. We've lost several devotees like that, because it's very hard for them to maintain their Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the army.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Conscription.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, conscription. But the Indians are not drafted. There's no army for them. So we're hoping that in Durban, where you first preached at the City Hall, the young people there, if we can get them sufficiently enthused, that they'll also join, and then we'll be able to have a very big movement amongst Indian community as well. We won't lose any devotees like that from the draft.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I think our students who are going to be ministers, they are excused from draft.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No, even in South Africa the ministers.... No excuse. It's a very strict situation. If you don't go into the army, you go to jail. Even if you're a minister, they don't care. There is no religious grounds for objecting. But only the Europeans are in the army, no one else. They're afraid that if the Indians had guns, they might use them against the Europeans.</p>
<p>Devotee: So we're going to try and make more devotees this year, more Indian devotees especially. We've never really tried before.</p>
<p>Jagat-guru: Also, Śrīla Prabhupāda, you have seen on our altar, Gaura-Nitāi? We have large Gaura-Nitāi and two small, three actually, three small sets of Gaura-Nitāi Deities. The ones on the far left, just under Lord Nityānanda's feet, They are going also to South Africa. They came originally from East Africa. I mentioned it when I first came to Māyāpura(?). So we will be taking them. We have a very nice siṁhāsana built for Them, finished tomorrow, and we'll be displaying Them at all our programs, preaching programs.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Do the needful. That's all.</p>
<p>Devotees: (offer obeisances) Jaya.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Jaya. Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They're very enthusiastic to preach.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That is life. One who is enthusiastic to preach, he is living. Others are dead. Just see how beautiful. Who is the rascal scientist can manufacture that by combination of chemicals?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: They can imitate the fragrance. (laughs) They can imitate like monkeys.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If you see only to the flowers, you become invigorated.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: If you see only?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Invigorated, get a refreshment.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: If you just see a flower. Yes, just to walk through a nice garden, it's very pacifying.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How many different colors and set up, craftsmanship. There is no brain behind.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Chance.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is not chance. In this particular tree, this flower will grow. Color will not change. (pause) So somebody is preparing?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who? (end)</p>
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