The other day one professor came to see me from Khabudvipa(?). He was very submissive, but still, he would argue like this, that "Whatever Krsna is making me to do, I am doing." So I told him, "Krsna is asking you to surrender. Why don't you surrender?"

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

The other day one professor came to see me from Khabudvipa(?). He was very submissive, but still, he would argue like this, that "Whatever Krsna is making me to do, I am doing." So I told him, "Krsna is asking you to surrender. Why don't you surrender?" "No, when He will will, I shall surrender."

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Acyutānanda: All I'm saying is . . . Like what Socrates . . . "I only know that I don't know."

Hari-śauri: In other words, he's in ignorance.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guru-kṛpa: In other words, he's admitting that he has limited senses.

Prabhupāda: So "I don't know" means that you are rascal. So you know. So why you are preaching? You know that you are a rascal. Then why you are preaching? You are teaching.

Acyutānanda: They, they showed his picture in the . . .

Prabhupāda: That's all right. He said, "I know. I know that I don't know." So if you don't know, that means you are a rascal. So knowingly that you are a rascal, why you are taking the position of a teacher? That is cheating. You are rascal, cheater. That's all.

Acyutānanda: And his picture is . . . was with a beer.

Hṛdayānanda: He wanted to teach everyone . . .

Acyutānanda: Einstein was also a drunkard.

Hṛdayānanda: He would say, "I have taken this position, teacher, because I want everyone to say, 'I don't know.' "

Acyutānanda: So just say, "I don't know."

Hari-śauri: If you don't know, why say anything?

Prabhupāda: It is very difficult to deal with these rascals. The other day one professor came to see me from Khabudvipa(?). He was very submissive, but still, he would argue like this, that "Whatever Kṛṣṇa is making me to do, I am doing." So I told him, "Kṛṣṇa is asking you to surrender. Why don't you surrender?" "No, when He will will, I shall surrender."

Acyutānanda: "He should make me . . ."

Prabhupāda: Yes. Just see.

Acyutānanda: There's a story I tell.

Prabhupāda: Just see.

Acyutānanda: So there was a man. "Oh, when He wills me to surrender, I'll surrender, and . . ."

Prabhupāda: But He is directly saying, "You surrender." Still, He has to will? Just see the argument.

Yaśodānandana: He already willed five thousand years ago.