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You have got such chelas there (disciples from Islamic countries)?

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"You have got such chelas there"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes.
Morning Walk -- January 12, 1976, Bombay:

Dr. Patel: But so many Muslims have become very good, I mean, Vaiṣṇava saints.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: There are some examples in Vṛndāvana.

Prabhupāda: And I have got many disciples.

Dr. Patel: Vṛndāvana, there are two, three of them, I mean, not here, but Arabics.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Caitanya Mahāprabhu converted many Pathans to become Vaiṣṇava. He changed the name. One Pathan was named Rāmadāsa. Just like I have changed Ramjan into Rāma-rañjana, Attar into Atreya Ṛṣi.

Dr. Patel: Atreya. You have got such chelās there?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: No, I think we must.... If.... Now the modern world is getting smaller and smaller and, I mean, the Islamic countries are also getting women with the modern sciences and...

Prabhupāda: When I was in, what is called? Tehran. Tehran. Many Muslims were coming.

Dr. Patel: They are all Aryans. They are more enlightened people.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: In fact, they were the real Aryans. Iran.

Prabhupāda: Iran, yes, Aryan.