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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">We came in 1965... Yes, I did not expect. When I came here I did not expect, because we have got so many strictures, so I did not expect that here the people will accept my proposal.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles|Room Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, no. Curtain.</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: Curtain, oh. Close?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Shut it now. Shade, the shade.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: I showed Richard the "Hare Kṛṣṇa People" movie that Yadubara made, and Yamunā mātājī made some prasādam for him to taste. So he's gotten some introduction already.</p>
<p>Richard: OK. You came here not too many years ago. Did you ever expect that it would grow into what it has over the years?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We came in 1965.</p>
<p>Richard: Eleven years ago. And in a relatively short period of time you've managed to gather around you a great number of people. Has it surprised you or...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, I did not expect. When I came here I did not expect, because we have got so many strictures, so I did not expect that here the people will accept my proposal.</p>
<p>Richard: Your proposal?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Because our proposal is "No sinful life." No more illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxicants. So I did not expect that anyone will accept this proposal. (laughs)</p>
<p>Richard: Are those three sort of proscriptions...</p>
<p>Devotee: Four.</p>
<p>Richard: Four, sorry. Are they prerequisites to accepting your knowledge?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The real thing is.... You can easily understand that "I am not this body; there is a living force within the body." Is it very difficult to understand? This body is not sufficient. The real body means the living force within the body. Is it not? You are talking; what is the difference, you're not talking? Now, if the body is dead, you cannot talk anymore, finished. So what is that force within you that is causing you to talk? Do you know anything about that?</p>
<p>Richard: Have I thought about it, me, personally?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Have you ever thought about it?</p>
<p>Richard: Yes.</p>
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