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RC BOM 1977-04-25 Go to the Dogs or the Gita
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ANNOUNCER: Next
is a conversation,
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
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recorded on April 25th,
1977, in Bombay, India.
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PRABHUPADA: But so far the
young boys who were there,
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they were very much impressed.
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TAMALA KRSNA: But they won’t
change their lives, I’m sure of it. They…
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Why not?
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They’re impressed to the
point of hearing, let’s say, yes.
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They hear more, they’ll change.
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Yeah; it’s just that I… You know,
from our experience here in India,
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practically the only place that we’ve
made devotees regularly is in Bengal.
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Other than there, we have not been
able to make people give up their ways.
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Why don’t you say that,
“We could not preach?”
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Yeah, it’s our own fault.
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Why do [you] blame
the other party?
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Yes, it’s our own fault.
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It is preaching.
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Preaching means to make
Jagai-Madhai a devotee.
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That is preaching.
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Simply talking big, big
words… Now the…
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We can see practically how the
system of civilization is bad,
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that this Indira Gandhi, raksasi, she
became exalted in the topmost rank,
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and she thought…
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A person who is equally good or
more than her, he was imprisoned.
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Then how the system is bad,
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that a rogue comes to the topmost post
and a good man is put into the prison?
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Is not the system defective?
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Imperfect?
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Some way or other, you can
become very important,
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and the actually important
man you can cut down.
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Envious system.
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Animal.
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Animals are envious also.
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Enviousness is everywhere.
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So the whole civilization
is so defective.
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Somehow or other, you come to the
power, and you do whatever you like,
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and the people in general will have to
depend on such leaders for their welfare.
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How they can be happy?
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If the whole system is defective,
how they can be happy?
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The same man, in one
day he’s very important,
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in the next day he’s
the most degraded.
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And the most degraded man,
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previously he was praised by millions of
people and next day he’s condemned.
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That means who elevated her
to the post, they’re all rascals.
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śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ
saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ
[SB 2.3.19]
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So what is the value of such election, and
what is the value of such important men?
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