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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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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">Oh, it was nice. Very nice students were coming out.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 21, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- April 21, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Dr. Kalidasa-nama. Did you hear his name?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Only just now.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He was our professor. So he was explaining the different ages of archaeologist, anthropology.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: This is in philosophy, Śrīla Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, history.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh, history.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In my honors class, I had history. He was teaching us history.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: What is the standard of Calcutta University, Śrīla Prabhupāda, at the time when Śrīla Prabhupāda was in the University? How was the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, it was nice. Very nice students were coming out.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: The moral standard was very good?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. We respected our professors like our fathers. The relationship between the student and the professors was very good. I had one Scottish professor, Dr. W.S. Urquhart. He was my nice friend. He was professor of philosophy, psychology. Later on he became vice-chancellor.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda:Calcutta?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Calcutta, yes. A very perfect gentleman. Kind-hearted. Sometimes we joked. We were taking this, what is called, peanuts. So the professor was passing. So some of our friends remarked: (Bengali) So he thought that professor did not know Bengali. So immediately he turned: (Bengali). So we became very much ashamed. Yes. So all the professors from foreign countries, they were instructed to learn Bengali language, local language. That was the system. All officers, big officers, educate... (Aside) Good morning. ...big educationists, they were to learn the local language. And they used to learn Bengali. Especially in Calcutta. There was one professor, Mr. Scrimgeour. He was professor of literature, English literature. So while teaching one English literature, he was giving parallel passage from Bankim Candra Chatterjee. Yes. "Your Bankim babu says like this." He used to say like that.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh, I see.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That means he studied Bankim literature. Bankim Candra Chatterjee was compared with Sir Walter Scott, of English literary men. Sir Walter Scott. In those days, Charles Dickens.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Charles Dickens?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. And Sir Walter Scott were known two very great English literary men.</p>
<p>Karandhara: Novelists.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: After sixth year... Yes novelists. So the relationship was very nice. There were... Otherwise, how the Britishers could rule, unless there was obedience. But as soon as they saw now the obedience is going on, the soldiers are leaving our camp and joining the national camp," immediately they decided to leave peacefully. Otherwise, there would be some revolution. At that time, all good relationship will go. Better separate with good relation. This was Attlee's policy, to convince statesmen like Churchill that: "You cannot rule over India any more. Better separate in good relationship."</p>
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