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In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, acaryopasanam. So India's culture is still, up to date, it is followed by the acaryas

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"in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, ācāryopāsanam. So India's culture is still, up to date, it is followed by the ācāryas"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

India's culture depends on the ācārya. Just like Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Śaṅkarācārya, Nimbārka, Viṣṇu Svāmī, like that. So in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, ācāryopāsanam. So India's culture is still, up to date, it is followed by the ācāryas.

Prabhupāda: India's culture, India's culture depends on the ācārya. Just like Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Śaṅkarācārya, Nimbārka, Viṣṇu Svāmī, like that. So in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, ācāryopāsanam. So India's culture is still, up to date, it is followed by the ācāryas. Anyone you'll find in India who claims to become a Hindu, he must have followed the ācārya. So all the ācārya accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Roger Maria: (French)

Pṛthu-putra: He says all the Christian and all the priest, that they tell to him from . . . that from two thousand years, the truth is in the Evangel. But still, he says no.

Yogeśvara: Just like we're saying that all the ācāryas have accepted Kṛṣṇa, he says so also in the Christian religion, all the priests and all the Christians have said that Christ is the ultimate, as it is said in the Evangel.

Roger Maria: (French)

Prabhupāda: Yes, we have several times explained that Christ says that he is the son of God. So we don't deny it.

Karandhara: The point he's making, Prabhupāda, is that . . .

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Karandhara: What he's saying is that outwardly, they all profess allegiance to Jesus, but they . . . it's seen that they disagree with one another on many points. They have diversified opinions about what Jesus meant about this and what does life signify.

Yogeśvara: And therefore, for him, he doesn't even consider that question, whether Christ is the son of God, whether he's not the son of God. For him, it's a secondary problem.

Prabhupāda: Now . . . now, what is his problem? That he did never disclose.

Yogeśvara: Well, he says the problem is the art of living, what is the best way to live.

Prabhupāda: So he has got his opinion; I have got my own opinion. How we'll agree? We say that you remain in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, everything will be solved. Does he agree?

Roger Maria: (French)

Yogeśvara: He says: "No, absolutely not. Just like I don't accept the existence . . ."

Prabhupāda: Then why shall I agree to his point?

Roger Maria: (French)

Prabhupāda: So . . .

Yogeśvara: So he says: "So I have to leave now. But the last thing I'd like to say is that I reject that conclusion, just like I reject also the Christian conclusion that the truth is in the Evangel. But," he says: "that doesn't impede me, that doesn't stop me from working very nicely with some of my best friends who are Christians when it comes down to practical work."

Prabhupāda: No, what is his opinion? That he never disclosed.

Roger Maria: (French)

Bhagavān: But what practical thing is he doing?

Pṛthu-putra: What he says, what he says . . . he's not Christian. He's actually, he's atheist and he's materialist. But he says he guides the people to read the Bhagavad-gītā because he says in Bhagavad-gītā there's something more than in the Evangel.

Prabhupāda: So we say also same thing. So where is the disagreement?

Roger Maria: (French)

Jyotirmayī: He says that in his political work, he teaches sometimes Bhagavad-gītā, and people are very, very interested.

Yogeśvara: He says he is the only Communist to suggest to people that they read the Bhagavad-gītā.

Prabhupāda: No, we recommend everyone to read Bhagavad-gītā.

Roger Maria: (French)

Prabhupāda: What is that?

Jyotirmayī: He says that when he explains Bhagavad-gītā or presents Bhagavad-gītā to people, he doesn't tell them that, "This is the word of God, and you just have to accept it."

Prabhupāda: That means he has not studied himself Bhagavad-gītā. That means he has not studied Bhagavad-gītā.

Roger Maria: (French)

Jyotirmayī: So he says that he thinks the same about us, that we are also not understanding perfectly Bhagavad-gītā.

Prabhupāda: Then let him understand from us.

Yogeśvara: No, he says he thinks that we don't understand.

Bhagavān: (simultaneously with Yogeśvara) He thinks that we don't understand.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Yogeśvara: He says that he thinks that we have not perfectly understood.

Prabhupāda: So let us discuss who understands—you or me. So who will decide? You are understanding or I am understanding—who'll decide?

Roger Maria: (French)

Prabhupāda: Who will decide it?

Bhagavān: So if he is a man of action, let us see. He has got his philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā. We have got our philosophy. Let us see by the results whose action is doing things. We have no political problem, we have no economic problem, we have no social problem. What more action does he want?

Prabhupāda: Religious problem—any problem.

Bhagavān: No problem. So what does that indicate? And you have all problems.

Roger Maria: (French with devotees)

Prabhupāda: Now, this question . . . listen. Our Bhagavān dāsa says that he has no problem. We have no problem. And you have got all problems. So who is better? Who is better?

Bhagavān: And anyone who joins us loses all his problems.

Roger Maria: (French)

Yogeśvara: He says then that's very serious, because if you have no problems, that means you are trying to escape from the world, because there world is full of problems.

Prabhupāda: We are in the Paris City. How we have escaped from the world? (laughter) We have got branches in London, in Paris, in New York and big, big cities, and all these boys are coming from big, big cities. How they have escaped? It is not justice. If you says that, "They have escaped," that is wrong statement. We are not escaping anything.

Page Title:In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, acaryopasanam. So India's culture is still, up to date, it is followed by the acaryas
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-16, 11:08:39
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