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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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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 class="heading">Just as one goes to a school and gradually he understands what is one, what is two, what is three, what is "two plus two equal to four," how to place. It is a question of learning, education.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg|Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Reporter: You're going to be delivering two addresses next week at one of our biggest universities.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That he knows.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Monday and Wednesday. It would be nice if you would mention that in your article.</p>
<p>Reporter: Yes, I will. But I want to know what will you tell the people.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: These things in different way, that "Come to your pure knowledge and make your plan. Then you will be happy. And if your basic principle is wrong, then whatever plan you make, it is useless."</p>
<p>Reporter: Yes. But, you see, the thing that worries me is that how do people begin to understand that their basic principle might be wrong?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just as one goes to a school and gradually he understands what is one, what is two, what is three, what is "two plus two equal to four," how to place. It is a question of learning, education.</p>
<p>Reporter: Yes, but this doesn't effect the ordinary man in the street, Your Grace.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Reporter: This doesn't effect the masses.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The mass of people, he says it doesn't effect them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mass of people will follow. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭha ([[Vanisource:BG 3.21|BG 3.21]]). Just like everywhere, in politics there is in one leader and people follow him, so we want first-class leader. Then mass will follow. If the leaders are rascals and fools, then what will be result? Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). If the leader is blind, how he can help other blind men? He must be open eyes. Then he can lead thousands of blind men—"Come here." And if he is himself blind, then how he can help? That is wanted. One blind man... One open-eyes man is sufficient to lead many thousands of blind men. But if the leaders are also blind, then it is useless. He must be in perfect knowledge. That is wanted. We do not expect that mass of people will understand this philosophy. It is not possible. But at least the leaders, they must know how to lead people—the father, the teachers, the government, like that. Then people will follow.</p>
<p>Reporter: My last question: Will you be meeting other spiritual leaders in South Africa?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not know who is that spiritual leader. Nobody...</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: We haven't found any really prominent personalities to introduce Prabhupāda to.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But one spiritual leader is there, Swami Sahajananda.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, the Divine Life Society in Durban, the head of that. He wrote one letter praising Prabhupāda's work, that he is rightfully representing the Vedic literatures.</p>
<p>Reporter: Well, thank you very much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. Hare Kṛṣṇa. You have taken lunch? So, it is very important movement. Try to study, understand. And it is the duty of the pressmen, journalists, to propagate. They must know the first science of the living force within the body. That is the most important part.</p>
<p>Reporter: I just feel that, in a way, I have enough to write, and I have enough to... Well, I believe in giving a little message of something in those things that I write. I try not to make them negative, and at least, I can present people with what they have and what you are saying. But I feel that within myself, and this concerns myself, that I haven't spoken to you enough, that I haven't heard you enough, and that I have...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, you can ask me more, more, other question. I can reply. There is no harm.</p>
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