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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Scientists -- July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Room Conversation with Scientists -- July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rūpānuga: I also wanted to ask a question, Śrīla Prabhupāda, on dancing in the temple room during ārati, especially maṅgala-ārati. Is it not that the devotees should not turn their back while dancing to the Deity?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sometimes dancing is done here in peculiar method. (laughter). That is not desirable. The dancing, Caitanya Mahāprabhu is showing.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: You have shown us the feet, changing of the feet with arms upraised, not with the back to the Deity.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They do it out of sentiment, but that is not very good.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are inventing. What can I do? If you invent your own way...</p>
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