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Foreign devotees, they are joining this (Krsna consciousness) movement not because it is a Hindu culture. They take it as a real spiritual culture

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"Foreign devotees, they are joining this movement not because it is a Hindu culture. They take it as a real spiritual culture"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Foreign devotees, they are joining this movement not because it is a Hindu culture. They take it as a real spiritual culture. Otherwise why, for the last hundred, two hundred years, the Hindu sannyāsīs, yogīs, were going there? Who did accept? Did anybody? The Ramakrishna Mission, Hindu monk, within the eighty-five years, how many Hindus they have made? You can count maybe a dozen only. Huh? Did they make any Hindus—European, American young boys? And it is the Hindu custom that sannyāsīs eat meat?

Indian man (1): That is Hare Kṛṣṇa land. This is Hare Kṛṣṇa Babu.

Prabhupāda: Babu? Babu means?

Indian man (1): It's a name of the . . . (indistinct) . . ..

Prabhupāda: Foreign devotees, they are joining this movement not because it is a Hindu culture. They take it as a real spiritual culture. Otherwise why, for the last hundred, two hundred years, the Hindu sannyāsīs, yogīs, were going there? Who did accept? Did anybody? The Ramakrishna Mission, Hindu monk, within the eighty-five years, how many Hindus they have made? You can count maybe a dozen only. Huh? Did they make any Hindus—European, American young boys? And it is the Hindu custom that sannyāsīs eat meat?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Drink wine.

Prabhupāda: Drink wine.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And have women.

Prabhupāda: (break) . . .drinking wine and eating meat, the next stage is illicit sex. Is that the business of the Hindu monk? There are sampradāyas, Rāmānuja-sampradāya, Śaṅkara-sampradāya. But where the Hindu monk drinks and eats meat? They have introduced it. Is that Hinduism?

Acyutānanda: (break) . . .Satajit.

Prabhupāda: Nowadays everyone has become impersonal.

Page Title:Foreign devotees, they are joining this (Krsna consciousness) movement not because it is a Hindu culture. They take it as a real spiritual culture
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-09, 05:12:46
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