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Is it necessary to know of the Indian language when you join?

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"Is it necessary to know of the Indian language when you join"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

This is not Indian name. This is Sanskrit name.
Interview -- February 1, 1968, Los Angeles:

Interviewer: Is it necessary to know of the Indian language when you join? Because I noticed that when your...

Prabhupāda: This is not Indian name. This is Sanskrit name.

Interviewer: It's what?

Prabhupāda: Sanskrit. Sanskrit is a language which is mother of all languages. Sanskrit, S-a-n-s-k-r-i-t, Sanskrit language. So this is the original language of this..., not only of this planet. In other planets also, this language is spoken. So the names are in Sanskrit. They do not belong to any community or any section. It is universal. We have no information. Just like this word, Kṛṣṇa. It is universally known: "all-attractive." The exact English translation is "all-attractive." So there cannot be any proper nomenclature for God than this "all-attractive." Unless God is all-attractive, how He can be God? This is the perfect nomenclature. Similarly, anything Sanskritically named, that is all perfect. Yes.

Page Title:Is it necessary to know of the Indian language when you join?
Compiler:Rishab
Created:26 of Apr, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1