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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Wally Strobes: One thing I wondered about. In our terms sometimes you can find a person that you admire or who you believe does good, but he professes to be an atheist. I'm thinking about a person like Bertrand Russell.

Prabhupāda: No, our ideas are standard. We are not manufacturing any idea. Just like whatever we speak, immediately we give evidence from the śāstra. That is our standard. We accept standard idea, and the standard idea means the ideas given by God. That is standard. There is no mistake. There is no cheating. There is no illusion. Any idea we form, that is prone to these four defects.
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[[Vanisource:750522 - Conversation B - Melbourne|750522 - Conversation B - Melbourne]]
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Prabhupāda: He has taken some prasāda?

Devotee: Yes, we gave him some prasādam.

Prabhupāda: Give him.

Wally Strobes: Bob's in a similar position almost to Raymond. His wife's expecting a baby any minute.

Prabhupāda: Oh. That's nice. How many children he has got?

Wally Strobes: Four. Plenty.

Prabhupāda: That's nice. Putra-hīnaṁ gṛhaṁ śūnyam (Cāṇakya Paṇḍita). Family without children, it is vacant. But people, now they are under this consciousness that family without children. No, that is not. Family means with children. Otherwise it is desert. Putra-hīnaṁ gṛhaṁ śūnyam. Śūnyam means zero.

Wally Strobes: One thing I wondered about. In our terms sometimes you can find a person that you admire or who you believe does good, but he professes to be an atheist. I'm thinking about a person like Bertrand Russell.

Prabhupāda: No, our ideas are standard. We are not manufacturing any idea. Just like whatever we speak, immediately we give evidence from the śāstra. That is our standard. We accept standard idea, and the standard idea means the ideas given by God. That is standard. There is no mistake. There is no cheating. There is no illusion. Any idea we form, that is prone to these four defects. One defect is that we are prone to commit mistake. We are prone to be illusioned. And our senses are imperfect. So being subjected to mistaken idea, illusioned idea, our senses being imperfect, if we want to give some law, that is cheating.

Wally Strobes: So the answer to every question is in there.

Prabhupāda: Yes. I do not pose myself that I am perfect. The ideas I am giving, that is perfect.

Wally Strobes: Is that open to interpretation, or is it very . . . can two people read . . .

Prabhupāda: Interpretation . . . when you do not understand the word, then you can give interpretation. Otherwise, there is no chance of interpreting.

Wally Strobes: If two devotees read that, the meaning is the same, but . . .

Prabhupāda: If two devotees . . . just like you are eating this sweet. So everyone will say: "Yes, he is eating sweet." And where is the question of interpretation? Everyone knows that you are eating sweet. So if I say: "This gentleman is eating sweet," so who will object to this? "No, no, my interpretation is different." What is that interpretation? This is a fact.
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