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Why should we have to cheat them?

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"Why should we have to cheat them"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

They want to be cheated but we cannot cheat. For getting some customer you have to flatter them—that is not possible. And while explaining the ślokas, you have to stress on this point, that this is bona fide; all others are cheating. That requires on your preaching power.
Room Conversation -- December 27, 1976, Bombay:

Hari-śauri: When they go to these yoga classes; they don't get anything.

Prabhupāda: We are not going to flatter them. If you want to learn, you have to learn according to the authorized way.

Jagadīśa: The appeal of these other groups is sex. We're not interested in that.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No I'm not saying sex.

Jagadīśa: Well, it is. That's how they're appealing.

Hari-śauri: Their whole platform is bogus then.

Prabhupāda: They are all bogus. Bogus. We are not going to follow the bogus. At least in these seven days they must not have any sex. Then he will be all right. They'll get some benefit.

Hari-śauri: Yes. That's described here also. That will come out automatically in the class, that one has to sit...

Prabhupāda: They will have to take thrice bath and eat frugally, not voraciously. If they want real treatment, that will benefit them. If they have got some ideas of yoga and we have to cheat them, that is impossible.

Jagadīśa: Why should we have to cheat them?

Prabhupāda: They want to be cheated but we cannot cheat. For getting some customer you have to flatter them—that is not possible. And while explaining the ślokas, you have to stress on this point, that this is bona fide; all others are cheating. That requires on your preaching power.

Hari-śauri: Actually I was reading through your purports in this chapter the other day, and everything, every aspect, is completely explained in the purports. If one carefully reads this chapter then there's no problem. You just preach whatever is there.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: What we could do is... I mean you may not like this... Publish a small booklet just based on the Sixth Chapter.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Just publish the Sixth Chapter, that this is our booklet on yoga.

Prabhupāda: No, you can make a booklet, the Sixth Chapter explained, and posture, how to sit. That sitting down, that will attract.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Because they want to see these things.

Prabhupāda: That sitting posture will attract them. Give them figure, "This is the posture of sitting," and they will hear.

Page Title:Why should we have to cheat them?
Compiler:SunitaS, Rishab
Created:17 of Aug, 2011
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No. of Quotes:1