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If you unintelligently accept some bogus person as perfect, that is your fault. You must be assured that, "The person from whom I am asking, he is perfect." Then you take it. Otherwise don't take

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"If you unintelligently accept some bogus person as perfect, that is your fault. You must be assured that" |"The person from whom I am asking, he is perfect" |"Then you take it. Otherwise don't take"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

No, no, I can understand. The thing is that everyone can take advantage of this statement that, "I am perfect." Just like so many rogues and bogus persons come. But it is your duty to know whether he is perfect. It is your duty to test whether he is perfect. That requires intelligence. If you unintelligently accept some bogus person as perfect, that is your fault. You must be assured that, "The person from whom I am asking, he is perfect." Then you take it. Otherwise don't take.

Hṛdayānanda: (translating) He's saying that in the Catholic . . . he's more or less saying that in the Catholic Church how they also demand the same kind of faith. He said they all have a bad experience with that. And then he more or less . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no, I can understand. The thing is that everyone can take advantage of this statement that, "I am perfect." Just like so many rogues and bogus persons come. But it is your duty to know whether he is perfect. It is your duty to test whether he is perfect. That requires intelligence. If you unintelligently accept some bogus person as perfect, that is your fault. You must be assured that, "The person from whom I am asking, he is perfect." Then you take it. Otherwise don't take.

Professor: Can I put a question? Why do you always say: "From a perfect person"?

Prabhupāda: Because the knowledge must be perfect; otherwise imperfect knowledge.

Page Title:If you unintelligently accept some bogus person as perfect, that is your fault. You must be assured that, "The person from whom I am asking, he is perfect." Then you take it. Otherwise don't take
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-10, 06:11:29
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