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I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gita. But you do not study; you neglect it. That is your fault

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"I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gītā. But you do not study; you neglect it. That is your fault"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

No, no, you have neglected. My charge is that you have neglected. Bhagavad-gītā is there. Bhagavad-gītā is spoken in India. Bhagavad-gītā is there. I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gītā. But you do not study; you neglect it. That is your fault.

Interviewer (3): Do you think it will come to India via the West now?

Prabhupāda: I don't follow.

Interviewer (2): Will it come to India via the West?

Prabhupāda: India is already there. You are neglecting. Why don't you admit that you are neglecting?

Interviewer (3): Will that neglect go, disappear, through the West?

Prabhupāda: How will that? If you don't like it, how it will go?

Interviewer (4): No, no, my colleague's point is, we have not been accepting . . . we are not able to understand Bhagavad-gītā on our own. Just because first Western people understand it, and because of their . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no, you have neglected. My charge is that you have neglected. Bhagavad-gītā is there. Bhagavad-gītā is spoken in India. Bhagavad-gītā is there. I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gītā. But you do not study; you neglect it. That is your fault.

Interviewer (3): No, that is because it is not part of the educational system.

Prabhupāda: Because you have made it. It is the first educational system.

Interviewer (3): No, but the system that we have here . . .

Prabhupāda: That you have introduced. That is your unfortunate case.

Interviewer (4): No, that is because of historical reasons. We were ruined by a foreign . . .

Prabhupāda: If the real subject matter of study you neglect, that is your negligence, your misfortune.

Page Title:I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gita. But you do not study; you neglect it. That is your fault
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-10, 08:10:38
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1