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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">There is, but not very elaborate... Not very elaborate... Elaborate...
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with Religious Editor Of the Associated Press -- July 16, 1976, New York|Interview with Religious Editor Of the Associated Press -- July 16, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Interviewer: What's your view of Judaism and Christianity?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I have not studied, but any "ism," if it is meant for making the soul free from this bodily condition, that is first class "ism." Otherwise, it is simply waste of time.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Any religion that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That gives facility.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Emphasizes making us free from the bodily condition.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Interviewer: That's a first class religion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's it.</p>
<p>Interviewer: I don't think Judaism and Christianity do that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not know that.</p>
<p>Interviewer: They consider the body very important.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Again you come to the same. Body is important so long the soul is there. The car is important so long it is moving.</p>
<p>Interviewer: But they don't, they cherish the physical, you know, the world itself.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is ignorance, that is ignorance.</p>
<p>Interviewer: That is ignorance.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have got students from every community. From Jewish community, from Christian community, from Muhammadan community, from Buddhist community, from Hindu community, everywhere. Because the knowledge is for everyone. It doesn't matter whether he's Jewish, Christian or... "Two plus two equal to four" is good for everyone. It is not that "two plus two" is good for the Christians, not for the Jews. Gold is gold.</p>
<p>Interviewer: I didn't get that.</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: The principle of, say, "two plus two equals four," is the same for a person whether he's Christian, Jewish, Muhammadan or whatever. Just as the same way that gold is gold. Gold always has it's value in any situation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You cannot say because gold is in the hand of a Muhammadan it is Muhammadan gold, or if it is in the hand of a Christian it is Christian gold. Gold is gold.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Right.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In anyone's hand. You cannot designate it.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Who's got the gold?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? Everyone has got the gold.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Who has the gold?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, everyone has got the gold, but they have, they are not in awareness that what is that gold.</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: Everyone has the gold. They are simply unaware that they have it. Everyone is originally Kṛṣṇa conscious or God conscious. What Prabhupāda is doing is making people aware of it, that it's within them, within their heart.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Well, are there other paths to awareness of spirit consciousness other than the Kṛṣṇa consciousness path?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That, how can I say? That is your subject matter. You study both of them and see and give your judgement.</p>
<p>Interviewer: What is your view? Are there other paths to spirit consciousness?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is, but not very elaborate.</p>
<p>Interviewer: There are but not very what?</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: Elaborate, scientific.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not very elaborate.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Not very good?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not very elaborate.</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: Elaborate.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Well is Kṛṣṇa consciousness very elaborate?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Interviewer: By elaborate you mean effective, is that?</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: Scientific.</p>
<p>Interviewer: You mean effective by elaborate?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Effective also.</p>
<p>Interviewer: I mean is that the proper synonym for elaborate?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: These are some of our books that Prabhupāda has published just to explain this science.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We are explaining this science in so many books. It is open to everyone.</p>
<p>Interviewer: That's quite a library.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: This is just the beginning. And there's another forty volumes after this.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Are all of these translations that you've made Your Grace? I don't blame you for sleeping only four hours a night. I tell you, just to produce a half a dozen books in a lifetime is quite a job you know.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is very difficult, but I have already produced eighty books.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Eighty? Eighty?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eighty books.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Eighty?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eighty. Eight zero.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Translations of the Vedic scriptures.</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: And commentaries.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Translation and commentaries.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And all world scholars, professors, universities, they are receiving so nicely.</p>
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