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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 class="heading">Sometimes. There was no food.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 7, 1975, Perth|Morning Walk -- May 7, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Amogha: Śrīla Prabhupāda, in Sikhism there was Guru Nanak and Guru Granth Sahib. Is that actually a real scripture, and was Guru Nanak actually a devotee? Or is that not correct?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They created a system of religion which can include Hindus and Muslim. That was at the time needed. But that is not a good system of religion.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: You mean a compromise between the two.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Compromise, yes. There was too much strain between Hindus and Muslims, so he wanted to make a compromise. Actually there was only Vedic culture all over the world. As the things deteriorated, new systems of religion came in. Either the Sikh religion or the Christian or this religion, Muslim religion. They are, what is called, deformed type of religion. Religion is that sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). That is religion. These are later on deformed.</p>
<p>Gaṇeśa: So is that according to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate in our eating?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What?</p>
<p>Gaṇeśa: According to time, place and circumstance we must discriminate whether to eat meat, whether to eat the vegetables?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, you must eat. But when good things are available, why should you eat bad things? You must be pacified.</p>
<p>Amogha: Was there a story? The Hindus always tell this story about I think Viśvāmitra Ṛṣi eating a dog or something?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sometimes. There was no food.</p>
<p>Amogha: They like that story. What about in the Buddhist philosophy; we understand that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No killing.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: ...in the higher stage...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No killing.</p>
<p>Amogha: Yes, but the Buddhist monks, when they beg, they simply accept whatever alms they receive, and if they receive meat then they'll eat that, and if they receive some raw grains then they eat that. Actually that is a higher state of renunciation.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: And if they receive some cigarettes they'll smoke them.</p>
<p>Amogha: Yes, and if they receive-they'll take anything, they are so renounced. So isn't that more spiritual?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They have no idea what is spiritual. Buddhist religion is not a spiritual. It is material. If you kill me then I feel pain; therefore I shall not kill you. This is.</p>
<p>Amogha: Recently we received a letter from a Chinese man in Singapore. He wants all of your books. He wants to know how much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh? You have supplied?</p>
<p>Amogha: Well I just received it. I will answer him and tell him the cost. I will supply him, yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Chinese man from?</p>
<p>Amogha: Singapore.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Singapore.</p>
<p>Amogha: That is the country that doesn't like us to come in. Just below Malaysia.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In the beginning don't talk of these details, just try to convince about the philosophy. What is the nature of God? What is your nature? How we are related, like that.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: By details do you mean the rules and regulations?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, that is not in the beginning. In the beginning one must know that he is not this body. He is spirit soul. Don't bring in controversy, but try to convince that you are not this body. Then, gradually. That is the mode of teaching in the Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: As they become more interested they ask automatically how they can make advancement.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If they understand that "I am spirit soul" then he'll advance. Then you can say. The chanting is required.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: And prasādam.</p>
<p>Amogha: Everyone likes prasādam. In these high schools we take maṅgala āratika burfi and they love it. Sometimes the Catholic sisters and nuns come up afterwards and say, "How do you make this? What is the recipe?" (end)</p>
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