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To know your father, the authority is your mother. The mother says: "Here is your father." You follow blindly

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"to know your father, the authority is your mother. The mother says: "Here is your father." You follow blindly"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Krishna Tiwari: Because once you accept an authority, you are just blindly following something which may be right, which may be absolutely wrong. But you will never find it out whether it was right or wrong. So blind faith in authority is the most mistaken path a person can ever take. Prabhupāda: Not blind faith. We don't say authority blind faith. Authority, that's not blind faith. Krishna Tiwari: And just . . . Prabhupāda: Now, just . . . suppose, to know your father, the authority is your mother. The mother says: "Here is your father." You follow blindly.

Krishna Tiwari: Well, Newton was wrong in many places, although nobody is authority. Things change. I don't . . .

Prabhupāda: That means you don't accept any authority.

Krishna Tiwari: No, I don't, because once you accept an authority, you are just blindly following something which may be right, which may be absolutely wrong. But you will never find it out whether it was right or wrong. So blind faith in authority is the most mistaken path a person can ever take.

Prabhupāda: Not blind faith. We don't say authority blind faith. Authority, that's not blind faith.

Krishna Tiwari: And just . . .

Prabhupāda: Now, just . . . suppose, to know your father, the authority is your mother. The mother says: "Here is your father." You follow blindly.

Krishna Tiwari: No.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Krishna Tiwari: No. It is a different thing.

Prabhupāda: Your mother may say wrong.

Krishna Tiwari: Oh, well, this is, this kind of examples are very . . .

Prabhupāda: Why not this kind of example?

Krishna Tiwari: They're unreal.

Prabhupāda: Not unreal. The authority means you have to follow blindly. That is authority. That is my point.

Krishna Tiwari: No, no. You believe something. You, you . . .

Prabhupāda: Believe, because it is fact.

Page Title:To know your father, the authority is your mother. The mother says: "Here is your father." You follow blindly
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-08-03, 10:31:41
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No. of Quotes:1