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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">So long you will be under the concept of this body, there must be caste division. So we have to come to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there will be no caste. Just like these boys, Americans, Europeans, Africans, Canadians, they have no caste, they have no nationality. They are simply for Kṛṣṇa. That is casteless.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with Reporters -- November 10, 1971, New Delhi|Interview with Reporters -- November 10, 1971, New Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: In India there are two major war, Rāma-rājya yudha and kurukṣetra yudha, and there the hero is a Vaiṣṇava-Arjuna and Hanumān.</p>
<p>Reporter: Hanumān?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hanumānjī. Rāma-rājya.</p>
<p>Reporter: He was perfect Vaiṣṇava.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore I told him that "You haven't..., you have, have not seen a Vaiṣṇava."</p>
<p>Reporter: Your permission, may I ask one question? Do we offer any solution for socio-economic problems that you can...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Provided you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, everything will be solved.</p>
<p>Reporter: Will it come by itself, or will it come through you?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Immediately. Immediately.</p>
<p>Reporter: How, sir?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? That you have to take it.</p>
<p>Reporter: The condition is to follow the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like Kṛṣṇa says, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ: ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]) "These four varṇas—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra—it is created by Me." But you are trying to kill it. Why? If you try to kill Kṛṣṇa's program, then how you will be happy?</p>
<p>Reporter: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? There is no question of preference. Kṛṣṇa's creation, it is there. You are creating (indistinct) caste, jana-saṅgaś caste. Caste is already given, in a different name. How you can make casteless? That is not possible. The whole world—"I am American," "I am Indian"—this is caste, bigger caste. Yasyātma-buddhi-kuṇa. So long you will be under the concept of this body, there must be caste division. So we have to come to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there will be no caste. Just like these boys, Americans, Europeans, Africans, Canadians, they have no caste, they have no nationality. They are simply for Kṛṣṇa. That is casteless.</p>
<p>Reporter: So are they brāhmaṇas?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Reporter: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa conscious means brāhmaṇa. Brahma jānātīti brāhmaṇaḥ.</p>
<p>Reporter: Not by birth?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not by birth. They are brāhmaṇas by quality. They have got sacred thread. That is also there in the śāstra. Yasya hi yad lakṣaṇaṁ syat. Varṇa has been given. Varṇa. Varṇa, we want to compare symptoms. The brāhmaṇas are this: satya, samaḥ, damaḥ, titikṣa, ārjavam, jñānam vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]). This is the symptom of brāhmaṇa. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. If you find these symptoms anywhere, he is a brāhmaṇa.</p>
<p>Reporter: Except those who believe in Bhagavad-gītā, not (indistinct), sir. They don't believe in that. They believe caste by birth.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He does not know what is Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Reporter: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I say he does not know what is Bhagavad-gītā. If he believes in that way, that he does not know about Gītā.</p>
<p>Reporter: He says he's Hindu.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Maybe your Hinduism. You lick up your Hinduism. But we are creating real brāhmaṇa all over the world.</p>
<p>Reporter: I can see. What Lord Kṛṣṇa has stated, sir, that "I have created these four castes of āśrama..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Reporter: And I as myself, just, as not somebody told me, just my...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). Not by birth. Kṛṣṇa never says...</p>
<p>Reporter: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. These four castes... Not caste. We say caste, but varṇāśrama varṇa. Varṇa. Anyway, it is division. That division, vibhāga, the exact word is "division," not "caste." How you can say caste, it is not there, difference? Division, these four divisions are there. So these divisions are not made by birth. Just like if you are a lawyer. So in the society there are lawyers, engineers, medical men, they are divisions. But these lawyers, medical men or engineers, they are not born as engineer or as lawyer. That is mistake. Anyone who is qualified by the real knowledge, he is a lawyer. Not by birth. Suppose a lawyer's son, a big, big lawyer's son, does it mean that he's lawyer?</p>
<p>Reporter: No. But this is what we have been (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you have been something mistake. That should not be accepted.</p>
<p>Reporter: Well, sir, you should know the problem all that there is a...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that problem?</p>
<p>Reporter: All the (indistinct), harijanas will (indistinct) you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Reporter: If you proclaim that this is the real Hinduism, the people are getting fed up with Hinduism.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. No Hindu. Why you are bringing Hinduism?</p>
<p>Reporter: Our, this system...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Reporter: ...is only by Hindu...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Hinduism is a foreign word, given by the Muslim. We don't find any word "Hindu" in the Vedic literature. Why do you call Hinduism? We are not preaching Hinduism. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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