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We are completely different from the hippies, because hippies they are addicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple

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"we are completely different from the hippies, because hippies, they are addicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes, we are completely different from the hippies, because hippies, they are addicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple.

Prabhupāda: Our so-called temple?

Lady Caller (2): Your so-called temple. Why do you set up a place like that in the Haight-Ashbury?

Interviewer: I'll rephrase it. I'm going to punch her out. Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?

Prabhupāda: It is not for particularly selected the hippies' quarter, but the boys, they found a cheaper place in that quarter. Therefore they occupied that place.

Interviewer: Cheapest place you could find.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Because we are not very rich institution. So we found it cheaper, so we selected it. It is not for the reason that because it is hippie quarter, therefore we selected it. No.

Interviewer: Actually, most hippies couldn't join your religion, because they take drugs . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes, we are completely different from the hippies, because hippies, they are addicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple.

Interviewer: You do perform wedding ceremonies.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Interviewer: What is your wedding ceremony like?

Prabhupāda: The same chanting, Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Interviewer: Is it considered a legal wedding ceremony in this country?

Prabhupāda: Yes, our Society is incorporated under the Religious Act of New York State.

Interviewer: All right. Caller, you're on the air on KGO with the Swāmī.

Caller: I'd like to tell your guest that the other day I received a beautiful letter from the Boston āśrama from Miss Prudence Farrow, Miss Mia Farrow's sister . . . are you listening?

Interviewer: Yeah, you got a letter from Mia Farrow's . . .

Caller: No, her sister, yes, Prudence, from this gentleman's Boston āśrama.

Interviewer: Oh. Does Mia Farrow's sister belong to your . . .

Caller: Prudence Farrow. From this man's āśrama in Boston.

Page Title:We are completely different from the hippies, because hippies they are addicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-12-28, 07:58:54
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1