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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="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1971 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1971 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Pennsylvania. So although it was a small county, I was very much engladdened there were so many churches.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview -- July 29, 1971, Gainesville|Interview -- July 29, 1971, Gainesville]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the United States of America we have many religions, and I think people in this country like to believe in great majority that they are religious people, people who believe in God, you know, who devote themselves to some form of religious expression. And I wonder what your thinking was. What do you think that you could add to the already living religious expression in this country by coming here and adding your own philosophy to it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: When I first came to your country, I was guest of an Indian friend at Butler.</p>
<p>Interviewer: In Pennsylvania?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Pennsylvania. So although it was a small county, I was very much engladdened there were so many churches.</p>
<p>Interviewer: So many churches? Yes, yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, so many churches. And I spoke in many of the churches there. My host arranged for that. So it was not with that purpose that I came here, to defeat some religious process. That was not my purpose. Our mission is, Lord Caitanya's mission is, to teach everyone how to love God. That's all.</p>
<p>Interviewer: But in what way, sir, may I ask, in what way did you think, and do you think right now, that the teaching of the love of God which you are doing is different and perhaps better than the teachings of the love of God which already were being conducted in this country, and have been conducted in the Western world for centuries?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is fact. Because we are following the footsteps of Lord Caitanya. He is considered..., He's accepted by us according to the authority of Vedic literature, He is personally Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Which Lord is that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Lord Caitanya.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Oh, yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Lord Caitanya, He is...</p>
<p>Interviewer: He's the one who came back five hundred years ago?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Interviewer: To India.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: India, yes. So He is Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is teaching how to love Kṛṣṇa. Therefore His process is most authorized. Just like you are the expert in this establishment. If somebody is doing something, if you personally teach him, "Do like this," that is very authorized. So God consciousness, God Himself is teaching. Just like in Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa is God, He is speaking about Himself, and at last He says, "Just surrender unto Me, I take charge of you." But people misunderstood. So Lord Caitanya, Kṛṣṇa again came as Lord Caitanya to teach people how to surrender. And because we are following the footsteps of Lord Caitanya, the method is so sublime that even foreigners who never knew Kṛṣṇa, they're following it. The method is so potent. So that was my purpose. We don't say that "This religion is better that this religion," or "My process is better." We want to see by the result. In the Sanskrit there is a word, phalena paricīyate: a thing is judged by the result.</p>
<p>Interviewer: A thing is judged by what?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: By the result.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Oh, yes. Mm-huh.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can say, I..., you can say, "My method is very nice." You can say your method is very nice. But we have to judge by the result. That is Bhagavat said, that that process of religion is very good, following which one becomes a lover of God.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Yes, but of course you know your religion is not the only one which teaches this particular precept.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I am explaining, that it is not the only one. There may be many, but it is practically effective.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Now in, let's say in the part, in the part of the world where, if I'm understanding your philosophy and your history correctly, in the part in the world where this particular philosophy and this particular belief originate, which is in India, right, in the, the East, the Eastern part of the world, at least as we look at it...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Interviewer: ...is it successful there?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Do you have a large following there?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Recently, I was in India. I held two meetings, I mean continued for ten days, everywhere, and twenty to thirty thousand people were attending daily. The India's position is that they're naturally Kṛṣṇa conscious, but, at the present moment, by the so-called leader, they want to replace this Kṛṣṇa consciousness into material consciousness.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Is the Kṛṣṇa consciousness belief or philosophy compatible with the Hindu religion, which is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Any religion.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Beg your pardon?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Any religion.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Any religion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because God is one. It is a science of God. If two plus two equal to four, it is understood by everyone. It is not that it is to be understood by the Christian, not by the Hindus. Two plus two equal to four is a fact for everyone. Similarly, God is a fact for everyone. Now, how to love God, this is the only process.</p>
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