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[[Category:My Names - Srila Prabhupada]]
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<div id="LectureonBG1515August51976NewMayapurFrenchfarm_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="380" link="Lecture on BG 15.15 -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)" link_text="Lecture on BG 15.15 -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)">
<div class="heading">If you have no free will, then you are a stone. The stone has no free will. You want to be stone? Then you must be, must have free will. But don't misuse your free will. But don't try to become stone. That is not life.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 15.15 -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)|Lecture on BG 15.15 -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: Śrīla Prabhupāda? Why God gave to man free will if He knew the man would fall down in the material world?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If you have no free will, then you are a stone. The stone has no free will. You want to be stone? Then you must be, must have free will. But don't misuse your free will. But don't try to become stone. That is not life.</p>
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