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We have altars, we have pictures. We offer fruits, flowers, incense, and immediately, by combination of these things, there is some spiritual atmosphere, and there is chanting. So people enjoy it very nicely

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"we have altars, we have pictures. We offer fruits, flowers, incense, and immediately, by combination of these things, there is some spiritual atmosphere, and there is chanting. So people enjoy it very nicely"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

Interviewer: What does your temple look like? Prabhupāda: It is temple. Just there is Deity, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity and it's very . . . a place of sanctuary. If you go there you'll find immediately some impulse of spiritual idealism. Interviewer: Do you have altars? Prabhupāda: Yes. Interviewer: Do you have any of the other things you find in the inside of churches? Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, we have altars, we have pictures. We offer fruits, flowers, incense, and immediately, by combination of these things, there is some spiritual atmosphere, and there is chanting. So people enjoy it very nicely.

Interviewer: Do you have a temple here, Swāmī, or do you meet in libraries?

Prabhupāda: No, we have got a temple here. Actually it is Frederick Street, 518.

Interviewer: What does your temple look like?

Prabhupāda: It is temple. Just there is Deity, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity and it's very . . . a place of sanctuary. If you go there you'll find immediately some impulse of spiritual idealism.

Interviewer: Do you have altars?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Interviewer: Do you have any of the other things you find in the inside of churches?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, we have altars, we have pictures. We offer fruits, flowers, incense, and immediately, by combination of these things, there is some spiritual atmosphere, and there is chanting. So people enjoy it very nicely.

Interviewer: We're talking with Swāmī A. C. Bhaktivedanta, head of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. If you have questions our numbers are 478-3456; in the East Bay, 832-9707; in San Jose, 272-1233.

(break) A. C. Bhaktivedanta, International Society for Krishna Consciousness. What does the word "Kṛṣṇa" mean?

Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is . . . means all-attractive. Kṛṣṇa.

Interviewer: Would you put those earphones on, Swāmī? Our numbers are 478-3456; in the East Bay, 832-9707; in San Jose, 272-1233. Hello, you're on the air on KGO with the Swāmī.

Interviewer: Go ahead

Gargamuni: Hello, Swāmījī?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Gargamuni: I'd like to ask a question.

Prabhupāda: What is that?

Gargamuni: Why is this human form of life . . . why is this human life in such a diseased condition with war, pestilence and famine?

Prabhupāda: These are miserable conditions inflicted by material nature just to remind the conditioned soul that this conditioned life in the material nature is not for you. There is another place, where you can live very peacefully. Just like in the prison life there is always infliction of miseries.

Page Title:We have altars, we have pictures. We offer fruits, flowers, incense, and immediately, by combination of these things, there is some spiritual atmosphere, and there is chanting. So people enjoy it very nicely
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-04-25, 04:01:30
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1