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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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We have to become swans, rāja-haṁsa , paramahaṁsa , paramahaṁsa . Paramo nirmatsarāṇām SB 1.1.2. Then you can understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you remain crows, then you cannot, that is not possible. By nature's example we have to see if crows-like and swans-like, pigeons-like, birds of the same feather. Birds of the same feather flock together, is it not?
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''Na yad vacaś citra-padaṁ harer yaśaḥ''. You can present a literature very perfect from literary point of view, from metaphor and poetical, rhetorical, very perfectly written, ''citra-padam'', attractive by language. ''Na yad vacaś citra-padam''. Such kind of literature, if there is no description of the glories of the Lord, ''na tad vacaś citra-padam'' . . . just like there are so many sex literature, very attractive, it is selling like anything. But we are not interested in those rascal literature. ''Tad vāyasaṁ tīrtham'': such literature is considered as the place of enjoyment of the crows.

''Vāyasam'' means crow. The crow take enjoyment in the garbage. You have seen? They won't go in a nice place. They will come all together. Just like vultures, they come together to take pleasure in a corpse, dead body. But a white swan, ''rāja-haṁsa'', he goes to a place where there is nice water, lilies and lotus and nice trees. You have seen that St. James's Park? Yes. They will find out such nice place. They won't go to imitate the crows. The crows-like people will take pleasure in such nonsense literature, sex literature, or any such literature. So many nonsense literatures nowadays they are having good sale.

Because people are becoming crows-like, they have no high idea, they have no sense of Kṛṣṇa consciousness; naturally they will take. Just like hippies, they have become all bad taste, crows-like. So we have to become swans, ''rāja-haṁsa, paramahaṁsa. Paramahaṁsa. Paramo nirmatsarāṇām'' ([[vanisource:SB 1.1.2|SB 1.1.2]]). Then you can understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you remain crows, then you cannot; that is not possible.

So by nature's example we have to see if crows-like and swans-like, pigeons-like, birds of the same feather. "Birds of the same feather flock together," is it not? So you have to change your feather, then he  will be pleased. If you keep your feather the crows-like, then you cannot mix with the swans. That is not possible. This is the test. There are classes of men like crows, and there are classes of men like swans. So we are preparing our devotee . . .
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