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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: So if they admit they have no perfect knowledge, how they can say there is no God, or there is God? They cannot say. Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are very doubtful. Prabhupāda: Doubtful—that means not perfect knowledge. So how they can say that there is no God? They can say: "Yes, there may be or may not be. We do not know." That is a gentleman. How they can say there is no God? And people are misled, "Oh, such-and-such scientist has said there is no God. Therefore there is no God." He does not know that he's a perfectly foolish. His statement has no value. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhaḥ lokas tad anuvartate (BG 3.21). Because he has posed himself as a very big man, people follow him blindly and they're misled.
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[[Vanisource:730429 - Morning Walk - Los Angeles|730429 - Morning Walk - Los Angeles]]
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Prabhupāda: Just like if somebody is not a bona fide medical practitioner, but he gives, "Doctor," "M.D.," he's punishable. There are so many bogus. They are not detected. But if they are detected, they are punishable. If you say that, "Yes, I am a student, I am not a scientist. I have no full knowledge," that is nice. You have no perfect knowledge; still you say: "There is no God." How is that? You have no perfect knowledge. How do you say there is no God. Eh? They say there is no God.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So if they admit they have no perfect knowledge, how they can say there is no God, or there is God? They cannot say.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are very doubtful.

Prabhupāda: Doubtful—that means not perfect knowledge. So how they can say that there is no God? They can say: "Yes, there may be or may not be. We do not know." That is a gentleman. How they can say there is no God? And people are misled, "Oh, such-and-such scientist has said there is no God. Therefore there is no God." He does not know that he's a perfectly foolish. His statement has no value. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhaḥ lokas tad anuvartate ([[Vanisource:BG 3.21 (1972)|BG 3.21]]). Because he has posed himself as a very big man, people follow him blindly and they're misled.

Karandhara: Like the Russians . . .

Prabhupāda: Oh, they are set of fools.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: They do not believe in God, the Russians?

Prabhupāda: No. They are all rascals. I have studied them in one week.
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