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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Especially Mahatma Gandhi, he was actually a great personality. There is no doubt about it. But so far Bhagavad-gītā is concerned, he did not know anything. But from his behavior, it was seen that at heart he was a devotee.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Indian Ambassador -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm|Room Conversation with Indian Ambassador -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ambassador: Most of... Well, I mean, I was a very political person. I must be very honest with you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, I'm talking of...</p>
<p>Ambassador: To me, Gītā means Gandhi's Gītā which said in a very distorted, very limited version...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Gandhi did not know anything about Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Ambassador: (laughs) I understand him best.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, you... Gandhi may give his opinion, but why he should give through Bhagavad-gītā?</p>
<p>Ambassador: I know. Anāsakta-yoga is really...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He should not take advantage of... That is being done. Everyone is taking advantage of the popularity of Bhagavad-gītā and he's expressing his own opinion.</p>
<p>Ambassador: That's true.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is going on. We want to stop this nonsense. If you have got opinion, you write different book.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Yes. But not...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why you should misuse Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Ambassador: The devil can quote the scripture for his purpose.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Ambassador: That's what Shakespeare said, sir, "The devil can quote the scripture for his purpose."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's it. Yes. That's a fact. Yes, why you should try to introduce your philosophy... Now, say, for Gandhi's non-violence. Where is non-violence in Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Ambassador: (laughs.) It's... Yeah, this is true. Ahiṁsā paramo dharmaḥ, dharmo 'hiṁsā tathaiva ca. (?)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So our, our point is that you may express your own op... Everyone has got right to... Especially Mahatma Gandhi, he was actually a great personality. There is no doubt about it. But so far Bhagavad-gītā is concerned, he did not know anything. But from his behavior, it was seen that at heart he was a devotee. Yes. At heart he was a devotee. Yes. Because he was chanting...</p>
<p>Ambassador: Yes, of course, he, of course, shares with you this belief in chants. That we noticed, yes, very much in...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That raghupati rāghava rājā rāma.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Vaiṣṇavism.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah. So that... But maybe for politics, he has explained like that.</p>
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