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If one has fallen in the blind well - "Please get me up! Get me up!" - so I give him a rope: "Yes, catch it. I'll get you . . ." "No, no, I shall not catch." Without catching, there is no . . . so if you want to learn, come here. Stay. We shall teach you

Expressions researched:
"If one has fallen in the blind well" |"Please get me up! Get me up!" |"so I give him a rope:" |"Yes, catch it. I'll get you . . ." |"No, no, I shall not catch." |"Without catching, there is no . . . so if you want to learn, come here. Stay. We shall teach you"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

You are welcome here and take the blessings. But you won't come. When I say: "Come here and take the blessings," you won't come. What can I do? If one has fallen in the blind well—"Please get me up! Get me up!"—so I give him a rope: "Yes, catch it. I'll get you . . ." "No, no, I shall not catch." Without catching, there is no . . . so if you want to learn, come here. Stay. We shall teach you. That you won't do. Then how can I teach you? You learn from them. Just see these European and Americans, how they are . . . you have to learn from them by their behavior. These are American boys.

Indian man (3): I request, Swāmījī, on what basis we can say that it is a different meaning or distorted meaning and not the meaning which the Gītā says . . .?

Prabhupāda: Because you say that nobody knows. You say. And whatever meaning, that is in your mind, but you said nobody knows.

Indian man (5): No, that is quite mistaken talk.

Prabhupāda: That mistake . . . then what can I talk? It is mistake.

Indian man (3): I said nobody knows until he knows.

Prabhupāda: So if one does not want to know, how he'll know?

Indian man (5): Whatever Swāmījī says, that . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes. And Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam (BG 18.66). Why don't you do that? Who has got the . . .?

Indian man (5): We want to be student. Sarva-dharmān is word.

Prabhupāda: That . . . that means you become student; hear me and you'll learn it. It is not the one minute's business.

Indian man (5): Somehow you can give some that, advice from you. But whatever . . .

Prabhupāda: Advice . . . well, you come here. Stay here. We shall teach you. Not that you have come here for five minutes, I have to teach you sarva-dharmān . . .

Indian man (5): No, you don't have time.

Prabhupāda: No, I have got time. So that's all right. You have to . . . you have to learn it.

Indian man (3): Swāmījī, you bless ourselves in such a way that we will not . . .

Prabhupāda: You have come. You are welcome here and take the blessings. But you won't come. When I say: "Come here and take the blessings," you won't come. What can I do? If one has fallen in the blind well—"Please get me up! Get me up!"—so I give him a rope: "Yes, catch it. I'll get you . . ." "No, no, I shall not catch." Without catching, there is no . . . so if you want to learn, come here. Stay. We shall teach you. That you won't do. Then how can I teach you? You learn from them. Just see these European and Americans, how they are . . . you have to learn from them by their behavior. These are American boys.

Page Title:If one has fallen in the blind well - "Please get me up! Get me up!" - so I give him a rope: "Yes, catch it. I'll get you . . ." "No, no, I shall not catch." Without catching, there is no . . . so if you want to learn, come here. Stay. We shall teach you
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-03-10, 08:39:54
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1