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<div id="LectureonCCAdilila7109114SanFranciscoFebruary201967_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="36" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967">
<div class="heading">If a person is not willing to take medicine, how he can be cured? He'll go to death. He must be willing to. That is a, I mean to say, explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. So that is very dangerous position, one who does not take care. Suppose if one wants to be educated without going to school. How it is possible? If somebody says, "Oh, I don't care for any school, colleges. I'll be educated at home," this is nonsense. Is it possible? Or will anybody recognize you?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Woman: If someone who does not believe in scriptures, um, what is his duty, and...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: His duty is to go to hell. One who does not believe in scriptures, they are meant for going to hell.</p>
<p>Woman: What can one do to rectify his offenses? (?)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, just come... (break) That will help you.</p>
<p>Woman: But if a person is not willing to do that, is there any way... (static)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, how can you do that? If a person is not willing to take medicine, how he can be cured? He'll go to death. He must be willing to. That is a, I mean to say, explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. So that is very dangerous position, one who does not take care. Suppose if one wants to be educated without going to school. How it is possible? If somebody says, "Oh, I don't care for any school, colleges. I'll be educated at home," this is nonsense. Is it possible? Or will anybody recognize you? Then what is the use? Waste of time. That is the disease. Everyone thinks, "Oh, I am everything. I am perfect." That is the disease, material disease. Everyone is thinking, "I am independent. I am perfect. Whatever I think, oh, that is all right." This is going on. First of all, if anyone wants advancement, he must first of all think just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu is pretending, that "My spiritual master found Me a great fool ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.71|CC Adi 7.71]])." So one must agree to become a great fool and study these scriptures from bona fide spiritual master. Then there is hope of advancement.</p>
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