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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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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="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">Although you may be imperfect, because you are carrying out my order, you become perfect. You have accepted me as your leader, and I accept God as my leader. In this way society can be governed perfectly.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Prabhupada Inspects New BTG -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Prabhupada Inspects New BTG -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (laughs) Is it possible?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: (continues reading) "God has created the mosquito's body, which is also an airplane. That is the difference between God and us. We have knowledge, but it is not as perfect as God's. So the leaders of the government have to consult God then they will rule perfectly." On this side it says "Leaders of government have to consult God, then they will rule perfectly."</p>
<p>Reporter: "Has God also devised the most perfect government?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "Oh, yes. The kṣatriyas ruled the government in Vedic times. When there was a war, the king was the first to fight. Just like your George Washington. He fought when there was a war. But what kind of president is ruling now? When there is a war he sits very securely and telephones orders. He's not fit to be president. When there is war the president should be the first to come forward and lead the battle."</p>
<p>Reporter: "But if man is small and imperfect, how can he execute God's perfect orders for a perfect government?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "Although you may be imperfect, because you are carrying out my order, you become perfect. You have accepted me as your leader, and I accept God as my leader. In this way society can be governed perfectly."</p>
<p>Reporter: "So good government means first of all to accept the Supreme Being as the real ruler of the government."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "You cannot directly accept the Supreme Being. You must accept the servants of the Supreme Being, the brāhmaṇas or Vaiṣṇavas, devotees of the Lord, as your guides. The government men are the kṣatriyas, the second class. The kṣatriyas should take advice from the brāhmaṇas or Vaiṣṇavas and make laws accordingly. The vaiśyas should carry out the kṣatriyas' orders in practice, and the śūdras should work under these three orders, then society will be perfect." The end of the article.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You like this?</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: Very nice.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yes.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Right to the point.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They can make a big plane, but they can't make a mosquito. It's so thought-provoking. Here's that article by Dharmādhyakṣa that you liked.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That article about, he wrote from Vancouver. It was in that small pamphlet that they sent to Los Angeles. "Simple Living and High Thinking." It had a picture of a forest, a stream in the background, and your picture in a little square was superimposed over it.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: We got it in Hawaii. Yes, it was for that Habitat conference.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So we are not politicians, but we give some idea. Is it not good?</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: We have political philosophy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. This is our movement: Take instruction of God, follow it, and you'll be happy. What is this?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: This is the end of that article, then the magazine goes on.</p>
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