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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="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">God loves. That is natural, but you do not love, I do not love. That is the difficulty. Father loves the son; that is natural. But when the son does not love father that is a very precarious condition.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Jesuit: Well, I have kept you long enough. I...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, you can keep me engaged whole day and night, (laughter) provided you have got time. We are meant for this purpose. If anyone can understand God consciousness, that is a great profit for us. Now our appeal is to everyone, every religious sect, that people are becoming godless generally at the present moment. So we should make combined effort to revive their God consciousness. Otherwise it is doomed. And there is no question of Christian God or Hindu God or Muslim God. God is one. So there should be no difference between the system. According to the time and circumstances, there may be little difference, but really if we can understand God, either through Christianity or through Hinduism or Muslim, that is our profit. That is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.6|SB 1.2.6]]). "That is first-class religion, following which, one becomes a lover of God". You become a lover of God. That we want to see. It doesn't matter whether you go through Christian religion or Mohammedan religion or Hindu religion or Buddhist...</p>
<p> It doesn't matter. You understand God and love Him.</p>
<p>Jesuit: I agree entirely.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is our mission.</p>
<p>Jesuit: And it's good that, I think, we are coming more to understand that. And I think you see a lot of young people who really are longing for some form of contemplation and prayer. That is why you get followers.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Now, these boys they are coming from your Christian group, Jewish group, but they are taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One priest in Boston, he issued one pamphlet that "These boys are our boys, and before this movement, they didn't care to come to the church. And now they are mad after God. How is it? The same boys." So indirectly he accepted this process as easier to understand God. And actually it is easier. What do they do? They don't go to the forest, or meditate, or make any very austere, what is called, penances. They simply chant in the morning and dance in ecstasy and then eat sumptuously. That's all. And now they have given up everything. Now, you bribe them, "You eat meat." They will never eat. They will not drink tea even. The method is... The American government they spent lots of money for stopping this addiction to drugs. And these boys, as soon as they come to me, they give up. Ask them what money I have bribed them. You can ask how they have left it.</p>
<p>How they have left it? How they have given meat-eating, how they have given drinking even tea, cigarette, everything? What I have given them? I am poor Indian. I have no money. (laughter) But how they have accepted?</p>
<p>Jesuit: It satisfies the longing in the heart one has for God.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Now you can ask them. They will inform, that nobody of them, either Hindu or Christian, Indian... They are coming all from Christian group or Jewish group. So they are all educated boys. So there is no question of bluffing them. Young boys, they can earn money like anything, especially in America. But they have given everything. They are very respectable father's son. But they have given up...</p>
<p>Jesuit: The thing is like Augustine said, that "The heart is restless until it rests in You, our God." And I think that's...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, I don't teach them that I am God. I never taught. I always teach them I am servant of God, you are also servant. And they accept it. Actually that is our position. This is bluff. When somebody says "I am God," that is bluff, cheating. We protest very vehemently against the declaration that "I am God." No. Nobody can become God. God is one.</p>
<p>Jesuit: That's true.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Jesuit: Well, I must run away. It's been very good talking to you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Give him some prasāda. Just take some prasāda.</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: This is a little fruit that we traditionally offer to a guest. We offer them a little fruit so could you take one piece?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can take the whole plate. (laughter)</p>
<p>Jesuit: Take the whole plate? I just eat it?</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: (laughing) Yes, yes. It's just...</p>
<p>Jesuit: No special ceremony?</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: We've already done that.</p>
<p>Jesuit: Ok. When I was in India and I visited a shrine... It was the festival of the goddess of learning.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, Sarasvatī-pūjā.</p>
<p>Jesuit: And they brought me fruit to eat at the end, and I was embarrassed, and I didn't know whether to take it or not, and they said it's their custom, "You must take it." So I did.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We say by worshiping God, everyone is worshiped. There is no need of separately worshiping goddess of fortune, goddess of learning. Just like if you pour water on the root of the tree, it goes to every branch, leaf, and twigs, every..., approaches. Take some fruits.</p>
<p>Jesuit: No, no more, thank you. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Devotee: Would you like a little water?</p>
<p>Jesuit: No, I am all right thanks.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So people, either through Christianity or through any process, they must come to the understanding platform where we can understand what is God and how to love Him. That is required. Otherwise this human civilization will be spoiled.</p>
<p>Jesuit: And the great truth also that God loves every one of us.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God loves. That is natural, but you do not love, I do not love. That is the difficulty. Father loves the son; that is natural. But when the son does not love father that is a very precarious condition.</p>
<p>Jesuit: Good. Well, thank you very much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa, jaya.</p>
<p>Jesuit: Thank you. We will pray for one another.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Jesuit: God bless you. Goodbye everybody. (leaves.)</p>
<p>Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You have got that canteloupe? No.</p>
<p>Śrutakīrti: No. Guruprasāda, you can get melon, honeydew melon now?</p>
<p>Guruprasāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Śrutakīrti: Okay. You made him run away. He said, "I must run away." (laughing) (end).</p>
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