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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1974]]
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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="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">So janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrī, good birth, riches, education, and sri, beauty, these are the result of pious activities.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 20, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- February 20, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: At least, preliminary condition for being in touch with God is there. Because Kṛṣṇa says, catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ sukṛtino 'rjuna. So they are taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That means they are pious.</p>
<p>Mr. Sar: Yes, sukṛtinaḥ.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sukṛti.</p>
<p>Mr. Sar: Otherwise you cannot be bhakta.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And, and the result of sukṛti, piety, is janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrī ([[Vanisource:SB 1.8.26|SB 1.8.26]]). Janma, to take birth, to take birth in nice family. And aiśvarya, riches. And... Janmaiśvarya-śruta, education, and śrī, beauty. All these four things are in America. There every boy, every girl is nicely educated, qualified, artist.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: That last hundred years' generation of America, very honest people.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Extremely honest and extremely righteous. That is why the generation is good. This last hundred years...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore they are taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: ...we have been very fond of America. We have been taking great example of Americans during last hundred years. Now they have started degenerating. And that happens with everyone.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But the...</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: British degenerated; so they must degenerate.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Degenerating means...</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Degeneration must come. (indistinct) It's not so-called revolution.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So they are...</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: (indistinct) they degenerate for others. So that (indistinct) degenerate. We degenerated. So the Muslims degenerated. Americans will degenerate. Somebody else will degenerate. Is that sort of a will? No?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrī, good birth, riches, education, and sri, beauty, these are the result of pious activities.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: When you say the present education and all... But this education has created those boys, smoking carasa and gañjā and bhāṅga...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is not a university education. That is due to their coming to India.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: They are...? They come to India and... They don't do it there?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, they come here for spiritual enlightenment, and they meet these rascals, gañjā-eater sādhus. That is the beginning.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: But they have introduced that in American universities.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, no. I know. This is the beginning. They learned this... They thought that this is spiritualism.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: I thought they have taught us.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, no.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: No, they imported...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Your gañjā, gañjā-smoker, these so-called sādhus and just like... They have done this. By following these rascals, they are doing it. But they do not know who is sādhu...</p>
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