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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
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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 id="GardenConversationwithMahadevasMotherandJesuitPriestJuly251973London_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="52" link="Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London" link_text="Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London">
<div class="heading">No. Unless you love God, how you have become priest?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London|Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: And you'll also be surprised to know that this, this was a church, that building. It was a big church. So we have purchased it.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Very nice.</p>
<p>Mother: In other words, your temple... Do you call it your temple or a church?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We call temple.</p>
<p>Mother: A temple. And are these married and...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there are married, there are sannyāsīs, there are brahmacārī, all kinds of people. It is not restricted. You see. So many children. They're having children. We are taking care of them. Everything.</p>
<p>Mother: Now, do you have these temples in India?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh yes.</p>
<p>Mother: Because I myself haven't been to India, but my parents were there. And the Indian contingent from Dunkirk was billeted in my home in 1940, just before my marriage.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh. There you see. Oh.</p>
<p>Mother: And we had all the Indians there after Dunkirk waiting for more Indians to come and join them. And we had the Hindus and the Mohammedans and the sweepers, and they all had their own houses. And they recovered from all the war damage, and they went off within about twelve months. They went off in '41, back to...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There was some bombing in Calcutta, nothing more.</p>
<p>Mother: Hm. Ah, but these Indians were fighting in France.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, that is another thing.</p>
<p>Mother: Dunkirk.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Dunkirk.</p>
<p>Mother: And then they came, when Dunkirk was evacuated, they came back in all these little boats that they escaped in, and they got together and they billeted them... And I was living with my godmother in Sholden (?) in Devonshire. And we had eight acres. And the Army put up huts for them. And they lived there for about eight months until more Indians were sent to make them back to strength again, the regiments, big enough. And then they went overseas again. Some went to Burma, some to Italy. I don't know where they went, of course, but they were very good...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They went to die, after all.</p>
<p>Mother: They were very good soldiers. No, they didn't all die. Of course, some did, I expect.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Some, (laughs) yes.</p>
<p>Mother: But they were, they were very fine men.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Well, anyhow, thank you very much, father, for letting us talk and for letting us listen to you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you very much for your coming here.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Very nice to come here, and congratulations for...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, our only proposal is that you try to love God. That's all. God is one. God is neither Hindu, nor Muslim, nor Christian. God is God. So let us love God. That's all. That is perfection of life.</p>
<p>Mother: Well, you can rest assured, we do that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, do that.</p>
<p>Mother: Yes, we do that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is our...</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: I wouldn't have given up my life to Him fifty-two years ago to be a Jesuit priest unless I loved God, would I?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Unless you love God, how you have become priest?</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: And I'm not only one, but there happen to be thirty-three thousand of us in the world.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because you have become a priest, that means you love God.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Yes. Fifty-two years ago I made up my mind.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is understood.</p>
<p>Mother: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You are brāhmaṇa because...</p>
<p>Mother: How do you know I'm a grandmother?</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: No, he said brāhmaṇa.</p>
<p>Mother: Oh! I thought you said grandmother! I am a grandmother.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now, that's it.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Well, I think we'd better be...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So give them prasādam.</p>
<p>Mother: Well, thank you very much. And...</p>
<p>Devotee: Give it in the house.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Take little prasādam there.</p>
<p>Mother: Thank you. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.</p>
<p>Mother: Well, I think we understand each other a little better.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. Thank you. Yes.</p>
<p>Mother: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But you are fortunate that you have got so nice son like that.</p>
<p>Mother: Thank you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Mother: Yes. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Good-bye.</p>
<p>Mother: Good-bye.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Good-bye, thanks, good-bye.</p>
<p>Mother: Good-bye, all of you. Bye. (Break)</p>
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