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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Yes, that is Vivekananda. Yata mata tata patha. That means everyone can become authority. This is their philosophy.
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Prabhupāda: So you cannot give up philosophy. Now it is misfortune that you met with the cheaters. Now make your fortune now. Believe in Kṛṣṇa's philosophy. Then you'll be happy.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Jaya.

Prabhupāda: That argument, that we don't believe . . . but you're believing in Lenin's philosophy, the Communist. And what is this hippies, their philosophy, Allen Ginsberg's philosophy? Huh? Debauch number one. (laughter)

Satsvarūpa: Ultimately, they don't follow anyone. Although they may like people, they . . .

Prabhupāda: No, they follow.

Devotee: . . . they say our only authority is . . .

Prabhupāda: But they are manufacture their own philosophy. Philosophy there must be. They've become their own authority. That is a chaotic condition. Authority he has made himself. "Yes. I am my authority." Authority he has to accept. But he does not know that "I am fool number one. What is the value of my authority?" Authority he must accept. But he makes himself his authority. That is the tendency now. "In my opinion." All rascals say like that. "In my opinion." He does not . . . he's rascal number one, what is the value of his opinion? But he'll say, "In my opinion." That is the difficulty. And this is called creative philosophy. Is it not?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: This is going on. All rascals have creative philosophy.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: When I hear . . . in the United States there's a saying, a slogan, amongst the young people: "Do your own thing." And also in India now when I go there, they say: "So many men, so many minds."

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is Vivekananda. Yata mata tata patha. That means everyone can become authority. This is their philosophy.

Satsvarūpa: And this is praised as good.

Prabhupāda: Ha?

Satsvarūpa: And others praise this as . . .

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: As being very tolerant, liberal.

Prabhupāda: Yes, but our philosophy, Kṛṣṇa says: "You rascal, give up everything. Just surrender unto Me." This is our philosophy. "You rascal, you give up everything and surrender unto Me." This is our philosophy.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Haribol.

Prabhupāda: Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). He's decrying this Vivekananda philosophy, rascal philosophy. There was a suggestion when I, in that "International . . ." I was going to register, they suggested, "Why don't you make 'God conscious'? Why you make 'Kṛṣṇa conscious'?" And if I had made "God conscious," so many rascals will bring so many Gods. Therefore specifically only Kṛṣṇa, God. That's all. That is our philosophy. If you like, you take; other's, go away. But this is our philosophy, mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja. Was it not wise conclusion?

Guru-gaurāṅga: Yes.

Prabhupāda: If I had made a little liberal, "God conscious," all rascals would have brought, "Here is my God." To stop this nonsense I made it "Kṛṣṇa conscious." Kṛṣṇa is God only. Nobody is God. If you like this philosophy, come. Otherwise go away, I don't want your cooperation. What is the use of cooperation of some rascals?

Guru-gaurāṅga: That man yesterday wanted to know if we collaborated with other groups.

Prabhupāda: Yes, there is collaboration. We are proposing this collaboration. All religion, they're after . . . religion means to accept God. So if you accept God, we accept God. Then where is no cooperation? This is cooperation. But if you don't know what is God, we know. That is the difference. Ask this Christians, Muhammadans and any other religious group they have got a conception of God—ask them what is the form of God, what does He do, what is His . . . so many things. They do not know. But we know.
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