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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">No, you have no freedom. You have to accept some way for freedom.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Meeting with Italian Printer -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)|Meeting with Italian Printer -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Translator: What is our definition of liberty, freedom, spiritual?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Liberty means whatever you like, you can do. That is liberty. But at the present moment, you cannot do that. Just like you want to go to the moon planet, you cannot do that. But when you are spiritually liberated, you can go anywhere you like. Still, in this material world there is a planet which is called Siddhaloka. The inhabitants of that planet, they go from any planet to any planet. But still, they can not go to the spiritual world. But Nārada Muni, he can travel anywhere. He travels over all the spiritual world and material world. There is no restriction.</p>
<p>Translator: He says this freedom to go anywhere and everywhere...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is one of the items, there are so many others.</p>
<p>Translator: So he's pointing out that when one acts in complete freedom, he follows a path, a definite path to attain a certain truth.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You get a spiritual body, that means freedom, no condition.</p>
<p>Translator: But he's asking where we're finding that truth. Can we find it only in the scriptures, in following all the regulative principles we're following day after day, or can we find also that truth by following our own path, by keeping our own freedom to do whatever we like?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, you have no freedom. You have to accept some way for freedom.</p>
<p>Translator: He says that this very truth is contained in the scriptures. So right from the beginning, to start with, he has to accept the scriptures.</p>
<p>Bhagavān: He is printing the scriptures, so he must accept them.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: He finds it difficult to accept that the truth is something that you can put down in black and white. He seems to feel that it's more something you can realize through meditation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How you'll realize? Unless you learn ABCD, how you can realize truth?</p>
<p>Translator: He's saying that we believe in the spiritual truth, but does that mean that our material truth does not exist?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is conditional. Just like your body exists for a certain days only. But it is not eternal. But you, soul, you are eternal.</p>
<p>Translator: For the truth, since each one finds the truth in himself, does that mean that the truth is different for each person? Each person has his truth.</p>
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