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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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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="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Bon Mahārāja is giving Ph.D. Nobody cares for it. And nobody comes to take the Ph.D. These are all superficial.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversations -- February 20, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversations -- February 20, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Especially when our that big hall is finished, we can hold several lectures...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Daily. At least weekly twice. Sunday, Monday, we shall hold lectures and call all scholarly people to understand. Make it nicely.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh. We went a few days ago to Calcutta University to see the vice chancellor. Four of us went, the other two scientists and Ravīndra Svarūpa, and we talked with the inspector of schools, who came to visit here in Māyāpur about two months ago, and we discussed the possibility of getting affiliated in the Calcutta University, of giving some Ph.D. degrees in our philosophy. He indicated some ideas that it is possible, but he suggested that we must have a very good library.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the difficulty.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. They already said that two years ago.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They want us to buy so many nonsense books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And nobody reads.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But there's no doubt it would be a big help if we could give Ph.D.s.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Wouldn't it establish? Give some prestige?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Do you think it will be a...</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: We are also talking about some sort of exchange program, students coming from...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bon Mahārāja is giving Ph.D. Nobody cares for it. And nobody comes to take the Ph.D. These are all superficial.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: It's not immediately necessary.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
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