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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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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="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithSanskritProfessorotherGuestsandDisciplesFebruary121975Mexico_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="5" link="Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, other Guests and Disciples -- February 12, 1975, Mexico" link_text="Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, other Guests and Disciples -- February 12, 1975, Mexico">
<div class="heading">My success is always there. Yes. Just like the sun is there always. It may come before your vision or not. The sun is there. But if you are fortunate, you come before the sun. Otherwise you remain in darkness. Sun is open to everyone. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement—Kṛṣṇa is open to everyone. But if you are fortunate, you come to the light. If you are unfortunate, do not.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, other Guests and Disciples -- February 12, 1975, Mexico|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, other Guests and Disciples -- February 12, 1975, Mexico]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (2): What do you see as the future of your movement and are you planning to...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: My movement is genuine.</p>
<p>Guest (2): ...to choose a successor.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is already successful. Genuine thing is always success. Gold is gold. If somebody is fortunate, he can purchase gold, but gold remains gold. If somebody purchases and somebody does not, it doesn't matter. Gold is gold. So future, gold future is always the same as it is at present—if it is gold. If it is something glittering, that is another thing.</p>
<p>Guest (4): But there must be somebody, you know, needed to handle the thing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that we are creating. We are creating these devotees who will handle.</p>
<p>Hanumān: One thing he's saying, this gentleman, and I would like to know, is your successor named or your successor will...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: My success is always there. Yes. Just like the sun is there always. It may come before your vision or not. The sun is there. But if you are fortunate, you come before the sun. Otherwise you remain in darkness. Sun is open to everyone. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement—Kṛṣṇa is open to everyone. But if you are fortunate, you come to the light. If you are unfortunate, do not. That is your choice. Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). You do it. Now it is your choice. You surrender to Kṛṣṇa or don't surrender. That is your business. We are canvassing everyone, "Take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and you'll be happy." Now it is their business to take it or not to take it. But he can come. He can ask question and then "How? Why shall I take it?" That we are ready, to convince him. That is preaching.</p>
<p>Hanumān: When you have come to United States, you had nothing...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I came to give you. Some of you have taken, and some have not taken, so what can I do? I came to give you Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is my duty. My Guru Mahārāja ordered and I came. And... But some of you, you have taken, and most of, they have not taken. So that is another thing. But I came to deliver you the genuine thing. That's all.</p>
<p>Hanumān: The way you have come is that you have come as though you've not come from a religion or nothing. You've come and everybody fall in love with you, you preach, and, Prabhupāda, we cannot deny you are the authority because you know everything, and your...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Any way you take it, then you become happy. That's all. Of course, when you take it out of love... That is a fact. So without love, this transaction, because there is no price for it... All other transaction, there is exchange of price. Here there is no price, so out of love only, one can take it, not by paying any price. It is not possible. To pay the price of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not possible. Yes.</p>
<p>Hanumān: You cannot force anybody to say, "I am the guru. I'm the (indistinct). Fall in love with me."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why shall I force? What is my... That is not my business. I am Kṛṣṇa's servant. I simply say, "Here is good thing. You take it." Now, Kṛṣṇa also says that. He does not force. Kṛṣṇa is God. He can force, but He does not do that.</p>
<p>Guest (6): Good night now.(?)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bring prasāda for them.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: Prasāda?</p>
<p>Guest (4): How long you'll stay?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Here?</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: About three more days.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Three more days. That is in his hand. First of all give here. (prasāda being distributed) (break)</p>
<p>Guest (2): Gītā, Kṛṣṇa, Caritāmṛta, and Bhāgavatam. You have other texts?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (2): What do you recommend?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. We have translated it-Nectar of Devotion. This in...</p>
<p>Guest (2): This is in Sanskrit or...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, English.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Bengali? No, but original.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Original Sanskrit.</p>
<p>Guest (4): Apart from (indistinct) quality of Lord Rāma, are there a few other things which could be included while you are worshiping or devoting or meditating on...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God has all the qualities that you can conceive. It is generally not... Bhaga(?), it is taken as six, six opulences. Bhaga means opulence, and vān means possessing. Bhagavat. Bhagavat-śabda. Bhaga means opulence, and vat means one who possesses. And the first word in bhagavat-śabda is bhagavān. This bhaga means six kinds of opulences: riches, then fame, then bodily strength, influence, knowledge, beauty, and renunciation. These are opulences. If one is very rich, people are attracted. If one is very reputed, people are attracted. If one is very strong, people are attracted. Influential-attracted. If one is very beautiful, man or woman, he is also attractive. If one is very wise, he's attractive. And one who is renounced, he's also attra... So Kṛṣṇa has got all these qualification in full. That is the definition of God. Anyone who possesses all these qualities in fullness, not partially, that is God. This is the definition of God. Not that "I can produce one ounce of gold," but if he can produce all the mines of gold, he is God. Not cheap God. In that way everyone is God. (end)</p>
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