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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="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1968 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1968 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">So why does he come? To get more enlightenment. Similarly any religious scripture you may follow, but if you get more enlightenment here in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, why should you not accept it if you are serious about God? Why should you say, "Oh, I am Christian. I am Jew. I cannot attend your meeting." Why should you say, "Oh, I cannot allow you to speak in my church." If I am speaking about God, what objection you have got?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles|Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Journalist: Do you think that, really, from a very practical standpoint, do you think that your movement has a chance to make it here in America?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So far I've seen it has great chance. What do you think?</p>
<p>Journalist: From a very pragmatic standpoint what do you think? Really.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Yes, it has possibilities. I don't know about on a wide scale, but it definitely has possibilities. Especially in I think in these areas, in the cities.</p>
<p>Journalist: Cosmopolitan areas.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Of course, we're also starting a community in West Virginia.</p>
<p>Journalist: You are? Why West Virginia?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Well, this is where we're starting. I've just started it with other's help.</p>
<p>Journalist: You're starting it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He has secured a land, about 138 acres.</p>
<p>Journalist: May I ask you why you picked West Virginia?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Well, it's mountainous and it's very economical living there.</p>
<p>Journalist: Yes, it is mountainous. Well, I mean there's mountains here too. I'm not being facetious. Again, I'm just curious.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: No, it's very economical living there and it's also nicely located because we have temples in New York and in other areas in the east. So it's sort of like, between the east and the west, so it's sort of centrally...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And one thing is that main supporter is he. He is working in Ohio University. He's nearer.</p>
<p>Journalist: Where are you?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: In the Ohio State University.</p>
<p>Journalist: That's where you teach? How come you're not teaching now?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: This is Christmas vacation.</p>
<p>Journalist: Oh, you're on a vacation. You have tickets to the ball game?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: No.</p>
<p>Journalist: Oh. What the heck. I come all the way down here and you can't give me a ticket to the ball game. Ohio State or Ohio University?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Ohio State. Yes, they're playing the game here.</p>
<p>Journalist: Do you think?(?)</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: No. That Rose Bowl game.</p>
<p>Journalist: Yeah, I would feel that you had not attained that level of being out of it yet that you wouldn't know that. I really think I've asked most of the questions that I want to ask. I really sort of knew the answers. The ultimate of the answer, that is. I can't really think of much else to say or to ask. Have you anything that you'd like to say that may be of some kind of revelation to me or to our readers or something that... You know, what you're really saying, there's no easy way out. (laughs) If man is to attain any goal in his quest for fulfillment, he's got to work at it is really what it amounts to. So your message is really no different from that of Moses or Christ or any of the other great religious leaders. If people will follow the ethic of Ten Commandments, and follow it, that's where it is.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We ask people... We don't say that "You give up your, this religion. You come to us." But at least you follow your own principles. And... Just like a student. Sometimes in India it happens that although they have passed M.A. examination in Indian university, they come to foreign university to study more. So why does he come? To get more enlightenment. Similarly any religious scripture you may follow, but if you get more enlightenment here in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, why should you not accept it if you are serious about God? Why should you say, "Oh, I am Christian. I am Jew. I cannot attend your meeting." Why should you say, "Oh, I cannot allow you to speak in my church." If I am speaking about God, what objection you have got?</p>
<p>Journalist: Well, I couldn't agree with you more. I'm sure you know and I'm certainly aware that it's only recently that, for example, a Catholic couldn't even come in here because of some other church. That's changed.</p>
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