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[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments]]
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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="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">No, we are prepared. Just like horse is not prepared to take the medicine. But four men force him to take the medicine. Nobody was crying for this edition of Bhagavata, but we are forcing, "You must read. You must take." We are printing and forcing everyone. French edition, Bhagavata's edition, they were not dying for this book, but this is our force.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Meeting with Italian Printer -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)|Meeting with Italian Printer -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupada: So, truth is one. Everyone is trying to go to the truth. Somebody has gone ten steps, somebody has hundred steps, but to cover all the steps, say one thousand steps. So unless you have passed one thousand steps, you cannot reach to the truth.</p>
<p>Translator: He says it's always been difficult for him to keep walking or climbing up the stairs in the right direction.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: So we shall give him a lift, one second. You haven't got to go step by step. We shall give immediately, one minute. If you refuse to take the advantage of the lift, that's your choice. Krsna personally says sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja aham tvam sarva-papebhyah ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). Immediately, one second. But we will not accept. That is our misfortune.</p>
<p>Translator: He says it's difficult for him.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: Why difficult? Obstinacy. It is not difficult, it is obstinacy. "I'll not take," obstinacy. It is not difficult, it is obstinacy. A child can take.</p>
<p>Translator: He says for a child it is actually simple because he's pure and can accept everything we present to him. But he says for us who are older and already engaged in so many contaminated activities...</p>
<p>Prabhupada: No, there is no question. It is apratihata. It cannot be checked by old age or any material condition. He can accept.</p>
<p>Translator: (translating) It's not up to me, though.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: Apratihata.</p>
<p>Translator: He says we're always forcing him to take prasadam. This is not freedom. (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupada: Yes, this child has to be forced to do something. For his interest.</p>
<p>Bhagavan: Prabhupada once gave the analogy sometimes when the horse is sick, the doctor takes the pill in the hand, he puts it down the throat.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: No, we are prepared. Just like horse is not prepared to take the medicine. But four men force him to take the medicine. Nobody was crying for this edition of Bhagavata, but we are forcing, "You must read. You must take." We are printing and forcing everyone. French edition, Bhagavata's edition, they were not dying for this book, but this is our force.</p>
<p>Translator: He says thank you for this first meeting, I hope we will meet again, and when we do I will make these books even look nicer.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: Very good. Do that. That will be service to Krsna. The more you...</p>
<p>Translator: He says he's making the effort in order to know better.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: That is nice.</p>
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