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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">Oh, yes. As you have changed. You are American. Why not others?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 15, 1977, Allahabad|Room Conversation -- January 15, 1977, Allahabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: So as the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement increases its influence, then American culture will gradually change?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. As you have changed. You are American. Why not others?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: So the nightclubs and the cinema, this will be gradually...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not required.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: ...given up.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They simply produce anxiety. When they will come to understand that they will get better engagement, automatically these nonsense things will be stopped.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Television also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They can be utilized.</p>
<p>Gurudāsa: Yes, they can be utilized.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In a different way.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Formerly civilization did not have so many technological devices.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is not civilization. They do not know what is civilization. Suppose a mechanic has constructed this car far better than me. That is not civilization. A good craftsmanship. If you do not know what is the aim of life, what is your duty, then what is your civilization? That they do not know. The first defect of the civilization is that they are taking account of these fifty or sixty years of life. Life is continuation. That they do not know. This life, I am getting this facility of this car; next life I become a tree. What is the advantage after fifty years, if you are going to be a tree, stand up for five hundred years? This philosophy they do not know. Tathā dehāntara-praptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]). Here is the defect, that "You will have to change this body." They have become so dullheaded. "Oh, what is there? I change or die? It doesn't matter. Let me enjoy." This is the difficulty.</p>
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