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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> | | <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 class="heading">Yes. It is just like sugar doll. Anywhere touch—it is sweet. That's all. When I read books, I open anywhere. Any book I take, and anywhere I open, and I read. | | <div class="heading">Yes. It is just like sugar doll. Anywhere touch—it is sweet. That's all. When I read books, I open anywhere. Any book I take, and anywhere I open, and I read. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Tripurari -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta|Room Conversation with Tripurari -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda, when we open up these new airports, because the authorities, they are not familiar with us, they become very demoniac towards us. And some of them actually, they're thinking about Kṛṣṇa all day...</p> | | |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Hmm?</p>
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| <p>Devotee (2): They see us distributing, and they don't like what we're doing, they get very angry, but still, they're thinking of Kṛṣṇa all day. We often wondered how they are benefiting even though they maintain this very envious...</p>
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| <p>Devotee (1): Just like the Mohammedans were benefited.</p>
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Tripurari -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta|Room Conversation with Tripurari -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: They say, "Here is the Kṛṣṇa man." So he utters the name of Kṛṣṇa. That is good for him.</p>
| | Tripurāri: We found one policeman at the Atlanta airport was always harassing the devotees, trying to stop them. And one time I came down the stairs and I saw him in the corner reading ''Īśopaniṣad'' and trying to understand. They know that we have some knowledge; they are just envious of our success. They want to find out, "What is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness about?" They don't want to admit that they want to know. Actually, everyone wants to know about Kṛṣṇa. |
| <p>Devotee (2): And then after a while, when they become our friends, then they may stop and listen to us.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, because he has chanted Kṛṣṇa, "Here is the Kṛṣṇa man. Here is the rascal Kṛṣṇa man." (laughter)</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes, they must. |
| <p>Tripurāri: We found one policeman at the Atlanta airport was always harassing the devotees, trying to stop them. And one time I came down the stairs and I saw him in the corner reading Īśopaniṣad and trying to understand. They know that we have some knowledge; they are just envious of our success. They want to find out, "What is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness about?" They don't want to admit that they want to know. Actually everyone wants to know about Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, they must.</p>
| | Tripurāri: You said that everyone is hankering for these books. |
| <p>Tripurāri: You said that everyone is hankering for these books.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: So he read that Īśopaniṣad?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: So he read that ''Īśopaniṣad''? |
| <p>Tripurāri: Yes. He tried to understand.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Then?</p>
| | Tripurāri: Yes. He tried to understand. |
| <p>Tripurāri: Now he does not harass us so much now.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: (chuckles) So we have to do like that. Here everyone is demon, everyone. Demon means they are busy for sense gratification. That is demon. And devotee means he has no sense gratification. He is only busy how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. That is the devotee. Anyway, if you serve Kṛṣṇa sincerely, Kṛṣṇa is with you. You will never fall in danger.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Then? |
| <p>Tripurāri: Sometimes the devotees question, "What is the best book to distribute, Caitanya-caritāmṛta or Bhagavad-gītā?" We're thinking all of them are absolute. It does not matter.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. It is just like sugar doll. Anywhere touch—it is sweet. That's all. When I read books, I open anywhere. Any book I take, and anywhere I open, and I read.</p>
| | Tripurāri: Now he does not harass us so much now. |
| <p>Devotee (3): Sometimes we feel like... I know myself personally, if I'm distributing, like, Second Volumes of Caitanya-caritāmṛtas I have this doubt, this feeling that it's sometimes hard for me to understand Caitanya-caritāmṛta, and I feel like the karmī, he will open the book, and he will look into it, and he will become offended because he won't be able to understand hardly a word of it.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: No, Caitanya-caritāmṛta is not meant for ordinary person. Bhagavad-gītā, Īśopaniṣad and other thing...</p>
| | Prabhupāda: (chuckles) So we have to do like that. Here everyone is demon—everyone. Demon means they are busy for sense gratification. That is demon. And devotee means he has no sense gratification. He is only busy how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. That is the demons. Anyway, if you serve Kṛṣṇa sincerely, Kṛṣṇa is with you. You will never fall in danger. |
| <p>Tripurāri: Kṛṣṇa book?</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa. They will read as story book. The Kṛṣṇa trilogy is selling very nice?</p>
| | Tripurāri: Sometimes the devotees question, "What is the best book to distribute: ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'' or ''Bhagavad-gītā''?" We're thinking that all of them are absolute. It does not matter. |
| <p>Tripurāri: Yes. Nectar of Devotion also.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Nectar of Devotion is very nice.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. It is just like sugar doll. Anywhere touch, it is sweet. That's all. When I read books, I open anywhere. Any book I take, and anywhere I open, and I read. |
| <p>Devotee (1): And Śrīmad-Bhāgavatams. They are very attracted to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</p>
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| <p>Tripurāri: Many of the karmīs appreciate the Fourth Canto, part four, the story of King Purañjana. They understand that.</p>
| | Devotee (3): Sometimes we feel like. . . I know myself personally, if I'm distributing, like, second volume of ''Caitanya-caritāmṛtas'' I have this doubt, this feeling that it's sometimes hard for me to understand ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'', and I feel like the ''karmī'', he will open the book, and he will look into it, and he will become offended because he won't be able to understand hardly a word of it. |
| <p>Devotee (2): There's many psychologists at the airport. I would attract them by giving them that particular volume and saying how this deals with the psychology of the conditioned self. And they were attracted in that way.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, it is very nice, Purañjana. His city, his gates, various manifestation.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: No, ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'' is not meant for ordinary person. ''Bhagavad-gītā'', ''Īśopaniṣad'' and other thing. . . |
| <p>Devotee (4): Sometimes we are very encouraged because we find people, they come back to us. They say, "I have gotten this volume, and I'd like to have the first part" or "I'd like to have the Second Canto." I found that in the army base among the soldiers... I went to distribute at an army base with the soldiers. And one man saw me, and he came up, and he says, "Can I have the Second Canto? I liked the first one so much." It's enlivening for us.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Sometimes they come and demand.</p>
| | Tripurāri: ''Kṛṣṇa'' book? |
| <p>Tripurāri: More books, yes.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: That is good.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: ''Kṛṣṇa''. They will read as story book. The ''Kṛṣṇa'' trilogy is selling very nice? |
| <p>Devotee (1): Sometimes they want three or four or five at a time. (Prabhupāda chuckles) One boy... Cārudeṣṇa Prabhu and I were distributing to him. First he distributed one to him. Then I saw he was coming and I approached him again, the same, five minutes later. I said, "Didn't you get the story book, Kṛṣṇa book? You got the philosophy book, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Now take the story book, Kṛṣṇa." And he took Kṛṣṇa book, and then Cārudeṣṇa came up and distributed two more books to him.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: So when they take Kṛṣṇa trilogy they take set, three?</p>
| | Tripurāri: Yes. ''Nectar of Devotion'' also. |
| <p>Tripurāri: Usually one, just one.</p>
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| | Prabhupāda: ''Nectar of Devotion'' is very nice. |
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