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<div id="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1971 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1971 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Thing is that there are so many problems. Our proposition is, when you become God conscious, then all problems automatically solved. We don't take the problems. Just like disease. There are many symptoms. These are all different symptoms of the society's being materially diseased.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 14, 1971, London|Room Conversation -- August 14, 1971, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (2): What's your view, if I may ask, on, for emotion in, of, an ideal, a Christian ideal and so on through the media. Will you use television and radio to condemn things like racial intolerance and the Vietnam War? Do you believe that you should become involved in these things? Could you issue a statement and say that the movement condemns so and so? Do you believe getting into anything in the world spectrum to comment on things?</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Do you follow the question, Śrīla Prabhupāda? His question is do we concern ourselves with particular problems in the world, there's the war in Vietnam, there's racial discrimination? Do we make statements to condemn this war or to condemn that discrimination?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Thing is that there are so many problems. Our proposition is, when you become God conscious, then all problems automatically solved. We don't take the problems. We take the... Just like disease. There are many symptoms. A man is suffering from a particular disease. He has a headache, he has this pain, this pain, that pain.</p>
<p>Guest (1): You go down to the heart of the matter.</p>
<p>Devotee: To the root cause.</p>
<p>Guest (1): They're only symptoms.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: These are all different symptoms of the society's being materially diseased.</p>
<p>Guest (1): Society isn't saved in a month by individuals, (indistinct) the reality in each person. It's more than an example.</p>
<p>Devotee: Pour the water to the root cause and in every leaf it goes.</p>
<p>Guest (2): So the answer is you do not comment on it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahād guṇā ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). If one is Godless, he cannot have any good qualities.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Supposing somebody has got smallpox. Smallpox means sores appear on the body and very high fever also. So one doctor who's less intelligent says, "He's got a fever because he has sores." So he puts medicine on the sores. Sores go away and the man dies. Another doctor says, "He's got sores and a fever. This means he has got smallpox." So he gives him some medicine to cure the disease, and then the sores automatically go away. The root cause of all... There are so many troubles in the world. The root cause is Godlessness. People are not God conscious. If that is there, it will automatically put everything in the right perspective and everybody will be able to live harmoniously and peacefully because they will be satisfied and happy in themselves. Then they can live together peacefully and happily. Otherwise, it's all artificial attempts, and the patient will die when you just treat the symptoms. That's happening. For hundreds of years there's been wars and things. There have also been peace movements. Have the peace movements stopped the wars? It hasn't happened. Because they... With one side they're trying to stop the sickness, on the other side they're fanning the sickness, they're stimulating, like in materialistic activities. There's got to be a basic change of heart. Then things can change in detail.</p>
<p>Guest (2): But you will not comment on the details themselves.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Sometimes, if it has relevance for preaching work.</p>
<p>Guest (1): Do you think it would not be helpful to say that there's no comment. To say that the whole of mankind is one and we're treating the disease in the human heart (indistinct) You can't do it by an overall (indistinct)</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Yes, I agree. (indistinct)</p>
<p>Guest (1): We condemn wars but we fight each other. We are covetous on all different coarse levels. Until we've cured that in our own heart, we can't have the faith to say, "God, stop this war."</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: There's a saying, "charity begins at home."</p>
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