Their attitude
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 13 - 18
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Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead
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Śyāmasundara: He says that the moral sentiments which are approved by society enhance the social good, whereas immoral attitudes are egoistic and antisocial. So that a society will always approve of a certain set of moral values, and then the individual living in the society must either accept or reject them. And if he rejects them, then he must act through politics, through the social body, to try to change their attitude, their opinion.
Prabhupāda: Therefore it depends on that social body, which is authority. So ultimately we have to depend on the authority for all sanctions. So our proposition is that the supreme authority is Kṛṣṇa. So whatever He sanctions, that is morality; whatever He does not sanction, that is immorality.Conversations and Morning Walks
1971 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prof. Kotovsky: But if you would, will have many, even many followers, how far this adaption of Kṛṣṇa consciousness by many American boys would affect the politics of their attitude, for instance, to such a bearing problem of America as Vietnam War?
Guest: Correct. They'll never be the one who will ever advocate any war because they know this war itself is a wrong thing.
Prabhupāda: No, no. We don't say, "Avoid war." But unnecessary war is avoided. Just like Kṛṣṇa induced Arjuna to fight. It was necessary. It was necessary.1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Jñānagamya: They do not want to upset the illusion that they are God, that they are the only ones in the universe. So if they find out there is life on another planet, they will not like it. If there is higher life somewhere else, they will not like that. They are always in competition.
Prabhupāda: And all the higher lifes are in Europe and America. Especially in America, eh? That is their mania. They do not like that there may be higher lifes, you said. They like it that there may not be any higher life. That is their preconception.
Jñānagamya: Yes, this is the highest here, there cannot be any higher. They will not accept.
Prabhupāda: Just see how much biased they are.
Jñānagamya: They cannot accept another philosophy, they will not accept philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā because it is from another country. They do not like that.
Prabhupāda: Ah, nobody can see their attitude.Correspondence
1967 Correspondence
1970 Correspondence
Page Title: | Their attitude |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Labangalatika |
Created: | 19 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=2, Con=2, Let=3 |
No. of Quotes: | 9 |