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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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Prabhupāda: Then see. Here is Kṛṣṇa.

Guest (2): But that's a painting.

Prabhupāda: That is painting. Suppose your painting is there. Can I not say that, "Here is Mr. Such-and-such"?

Reporter (2): Yes.

Prabhupāda: Then? What is the wrong there?.
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[[Vanisource:740629 - Interview - Melbourne|740629 - Interview - Melbourne]]
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Reporter (2): If you are to think about something, don't you first have to see that thing?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Reporter (2): Well, are you showing your devotees Kṛṣṇa?

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, certainly.

Reporter (2): Then what does . . .? Well, what is Kṛṣṇa? What does Kṛṣṇa look like?

Prabhupāda: Then ask them, who has seen already. Ask them. They'll tell you what is Kṛṣṇa. But the same thing: if he says something about Kṛṣṇa, you will accept it?

Reporter (2): Yes.

Prabhupāda: You will accept?

Reporter (2): Yes.

Prabhupāda: Then see. Here is Kṛṣṇa.

Guest (2): But that's a painting.

Prabhupāda: That is painting. Suppose your painting is there. Can I not say that, "Here is Mr. Such-and-such"?

Reporter (2): Yes.

Prabhupāda: Then? What is the wrong there?

Reporter (2): Well, the artist would have been looking at me to paint the picture of me.

Prabhupāda: No, no, your photograph is not yourself?

Reporter (2): Yes, it is.

Prabhupāda: Yes, similarly, it is Kṛṣṇa's painting. But the difference is that you cannot talk with your photograph, but we can talk with Kṛṣṇa's photograph. That is the difference.

Reporter (2): But some of these pictures are slightly different. They show different . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no, on principle it is. As Kṛṣṇa's color is there, Kṛṣṇa's flute is there, Kṛṣṇa's peacock feather is there, these things are . . . these are described in the śāstra. Veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ barhāvataṁ samasitāmbuda-sun . . . (Bs. 5.30). So Kṛṣṇa's . . . suppose even a painting of yourself: One man paints a little different from your face; another man paints . . . but on the whole, it is the same. In that way Kṛṣṇa is not depending on the painting but on the features of His description as it is in the śāstra. Kṛṣṇa's color is described there. Kṛṣṇa's peacock feather is described there. Kṛṣṇa's flute is there. Kṛṣṇa's ever-eternal consort . . . praṇaya-keli. In loving mood always, Kṛṣṇa. Praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam (Bs. 5.31). He's always in enjoying spirit. So we get idea, idea of Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa, being Absolute, the idea of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa is nondifferent.
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