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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Prabhupāda: No, I was very surprised how this nice girl . . . other girls, they are also dancing. So this dancing, I was explaining to him, that this dancing has no artificial. Guest (1): It is from heart. Prabhupāda: Ecstatic. Guest (1): She's ecstatic, yes. Otherwise nobody will get up at 3:30 in the morning. Prabhupāda: Lokavājya. Doesn't care that, "Here is my mother, here is my father, here is my . . ." No. Effortless. Guest (1): She says today she is going to the park to make a temple. I didn't . . . (indistinct) . . . she said she wants to be a devotee. Prabhupāda: So, she has got the tendency to become a perfect devotee. As a father and mother you should not hamper it.
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Prabhupāda: Your daughter, as soon as there was kīrtana, how she was dancing.

Guest (1): Hmm.

Prabhupāda: She is young girl.

Guest (1): She is very devoted.

Prabhupāda: She has the advanced devotion. Therefore . . . she is a young girl, she was not ashamed; so immediately she began to dance.

Guest (1): She has always been like that.

Prabhupāda: This is automatic. You see? So it is not a artificial thing.

Guest (1): No, no she feels it. That is her mission. But I don't want to interfere.

Prabhupāda: No, I was very surprised how this nice girl . . . other girls, they are also dancing. So this dancing, I was explaining to him, that this dancing has no artificial.

Guest (1): It is from heart.

Prabhupāda: Ecstatic.

Guest (1): She's ecstatic, yes. Otherwise nobody will get up at 3:30 in the morning.

Prabhupāda: Lokavājya. Doesn't care that, "Here is my mother, here is my father, here is my . . ." No. Effortless.

Guest (1): She says today she is going to the park to make a temple. I didn't . . . (indistinct) . . . she said she wants to be a devotee.

Prabhupāda: So, she has got the tendency to become a perfect devotee. As a father and mother you should not hamper it.

Guest (1): (laughs) I tell her that, too, you see.

Prabhupāda: Because it is not easy to become a devotee.

Guest (1): I know.

Prabhupāda: It is not easy. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścin vetti māṁ tattvataḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]). Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]). To become a devotee and surrendered soul unto Kṛṣṇa is not so easy thing. Bahūnāṁ janmanām. And if she has developed, it is the duty . . . and śāstra says, pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.18|SB 5.5.18]]). These things are there. So, if she has got the natural tendency you should give all possible help to her. This is the duty of the father.

Guest (1): This is quite right.

Prabhupāda: This is duty of the father.

Guest (1): We give it at home, because we told her whatever she wanted to put things, mūrtis, other things, we have installed it.

Prabhupāda: Yes, let her enjoy this devotional life. She has developed it. It is a fortune for you, because if one member of the family becomes a devotee of the Lord, he can deliver all the members. Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja. Prahlāda Mahārāja, his father was Hiraṇyakaśipu, a demon.

Guest (1): I know.

Prabhupāda: Demon. (laughs) Prahlāda Mahārāja, when he was asked, "Take benediction, whatever you like," he said: "Sir, what benediction I shall take? I have seen the benediction of my father. He was so powerful, even the demigods trembled by his red eyes, and You finished it within a second. So what is the value of this benediction? Kindly engage me in Your service." Then Prahlāda Mahārāja, he did not ask anything for himself, but later on he asked Nṛsiṁha-deva, "Sir, my Lord, one request I can make: My father was a great demon. He was against You, but still I pray that his liberation will be granted."

Guest (1): Very nice of him. Very good of him.
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