View source for Hypocrisy, when there is sinful activity, then hypocrisy. If there is no sin, where is the possibility of hypocrisy? A sinful man may pose himself a religious man. That is hypocrisy. But if there is no sin, then where is hypocrisy?

<div id="compilation">
<div id="facts">
{{terms|"Hypocrisy, when there is sinful activity, then hypocrisy. If there is no sin, where is the possibility of hypocrisy? A sinful man may pose himself a religious man. That is hypocrisy. But if there is no sin, then where is hypocrisy"}}
{{notes|}}
{{compiler|Krsnadas}}
{{complete|ALL}}
{{first|20Nov12}}
{{last|20Nov12}}
{{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=0|Con=1|Let=0}}
{{total|1}}
{{toc right}}
[[Category:Hypocrisy]]
[[Category:when]]
[[Category:there Is]]
[[Category:Sinful Activities]]
[[Category:then]]
[[Category:If There Is No]]
[[Category:sin]]
[[Category:where Is]]
[[Category:Possibility]]
[[Category:Sinful Men]]
[[Category:May (Might)]]
[[Category:pose]]
[[Category:himself]]
[[Category:religious]]
[[Category:man]]
[[Category:that Is]]
[[Category:but]]
[[Category:Questions Posed by Srila Prabhupada]]
</div>
<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
</div>
<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
</div>
<div id="RoomConversationwithFatherTannerandotherguestsJuly111973London_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="42" link="Room Conversation with Father Tanner and other guests -- July 11, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation with Father Tanner and other guests -- July 11, 1973, London">
<div class="heading">Hypocrisy and other things, they are subsidiary. If one is pure from the very beginning, then there is no chance of becoming hypocrite. Why he should be hypocrite? If he is open, clear, why one should become hypocrite? Hypocrisy, when there is sinful activity, then hypocrisy. If there is no sin, where is the possibility of hypocrisy? A sinful man may pose himself a religious man. That is hypocrisy. But if there is no sin, then where is hypocrisy?
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Father Tanner and other guests -- July 11, 1973, London|Room Conversation with Father Tanner and other guests -- July 11, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Because Veda, Veda means knowledge. Knowledge means truth. Unless you come to the knowledge of truth, your knowledge is not perfect.</p>
<p>Father Tanner: But do you specifically have a precept against telling a lie, or against hypocrisy?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, hypocrisy and other things, they are subsidiary. If one is pure from the very beginning, then there is no chance of becoming hypocrite. Why he should be hypocrite? If he is open, clear, why one should become hypocrite? Hypocrisy, when there is sinful activity, then hypocrisy. If there is no sin, where is the possibility of hypocrisy? A sinful man may pose himself a religious man. That is hypocrisy. But if there is no sin, then where is hypocrisy?</p>
<p>Father Tanner: What I didn't understand is how this is covered by your four pillars, the four...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Father Tanner: Which of these would cover lying?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Lying?</p>
<p>Father Tanner: Yes, telling lies.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I have already explained.</p>
<p>Father Tanner: Yes. But which of those four pillars...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All of them. All of them. Just like one is indulging in intoxication. He may say that "I am very pure." But how one can become pure, he's addicted to intoxicants? So I heard from one of my disciples that there is a hospital in U.S.A., and five thousand priests are there for curing their intoxication habit. Do you know that?</p>
<p>Father Tanner: I didn't know that number, but I know that there are hospitals and sanatoriums...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So if the priest is going to hospital for curing his intoxication habit, he's hypocrite.</p>
<p>Father Tanner: He would admit that,...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Father Tanner: ...wouldn't he? I mean, the priest himself.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How a priest can be intoxicants?</p>
<p>Father Tanner: He would say, wouldn't he, that was just his weakness.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Father Tanner: He would say it was his weakness.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Weakness is hypocrisy. If you are weak, you cannot become priest. Because you are teacher, religious teacher. You should not take that post. That is hypocrisy.</p>
<p>Father Tanner: But perhaps this is the difference, or one of the differences between western and eastern civilization...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, it is not the question of eastern or western...</p>
<p>Father Tanner: But in the East, your wise man is nearly always an elderly man.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not always.</p>
<p>Father Tanner: Not always.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>