Program at Latrobe University — Melbourne, 1974
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So without any more verbiage, I’ll present our spiritual master.
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We receive knowledge from the perfect person.
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When we receive knowledge from imperfect person, the knowledge is not complete.
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…touch water at the present moment.
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But the same water in the summer season will be very pleasing.
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So the water is the same, but due to seasonal changes, sometimes the
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water is very pleasing and sometimes it is very painful.
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So this material world, so long we shall remain in the material world,
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That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita.
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brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhaktim labhate param
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Brahma-bhutah means self-realized, that “I am not this body; I am spirit soul.”
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This is the first realization, self-realization.
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This Krsna consciousness movement is educational movement.
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It is not a religious sentiment; it is a science. And as we have got our books also.
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You have seen. There is demonstration of the book.
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We have got already twenty books of four hundred pages each, and we are going on,
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writing more books. Everything will be finished in eighty books.
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So if you want to know through science and philosophy, we have got our books. You can read.
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And even if you read the complete set, it will take your whole life to finish it.
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But if you cannot read or if you do not want to…
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…Now if the intelligentsia of Australia cannot sit for half an hour and listen
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to a gentleman speak about love of God, it does not speak very well for you.
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We are simply not asking for disturbance. We are not asking for violence.
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But we will meet violence with violence. We are not artificially pacifists.
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We are asking you to listen like gentlemen. We have come here in good will.
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We have come here not to cause any disturbance.
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So we ask you please to have that much respect for our spiritual master.
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Now at this time, if there is any question about Krsna consciousness philosophy…
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Not about fighting. We can go on the street and fight and we can solve everything out there.
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We have come here to speak about spiritual matters.
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If you want to hear about spiritual matters, let’s speak together like brothers and sisters.
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Let’s not cause a disturbance. I have an ego; you have an ego.
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If you do something to flick off my ego, I may get mad.
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If I do something to flick out your ego, you get mad.
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So we’ll go out into the street and settle it like cats and dogs? No.
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We’re not here at this university to act like that.
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We’re supposed to have raised above that platform.
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So please, we ask you to present sober questions to our spiritual master.
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Yes, sir?
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Jesus. He believe Jesus is going to come back again.
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Well, he is coming, welcome. We shall welcome. It is very good news that Jesus is coming.
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Jesus had no reputation. He wore sandals and he was crucified between two thieves…
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He didn’t carry flick knives… Hare Krsnas.
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And your spirituality is in a Rolls Royce on a padded seat, and you’re all into money, you Krsnas.
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You want money. You rip off people in the streets.
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No. I don’t want money.
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You said “Violence with violence.” When you said “Violence with violence,”
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that’s what you believe. Jesus turned the other cheek, and he expects his followers to.
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There are many ways to handle a problem. Lord Buddha also taught how to handle a problem
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and Lord Jesus Christ also taught a way…
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You have had three questions, maybe someone else has a question? One question.
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Through serving God we can.
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Another question? Yes, sir?
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Do you consider your movement the major form of enlightenment
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emanating from the United States today?
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What order of priority had your movement in the White House psychological warfare department?
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Will you also be coming on to our July 4th demonstration again this year to try and f…. it up
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and divert people away from taking up real political issues concerned with Australia?
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All right, we can answer you one at a time. I can answer them for you if you like.
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Our movement is not coming from the United States. If you have some paranoiac stigma about
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anything coming from the United States, well, that’s your hang-up, not mine.
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Second of all, our spiritual master, he came to the United States to start this
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Krsna consciousness movement because he got a free ticket on a boat to go there.
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Because it was the mercy of this one lady who gave him this free ticket on a boat.
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He came to America on the orders of his spiritual master.
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This is the reason he came to America to start Krsna consciousness.
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If you had sent him a free ticket, he probably would have come to Australia first.
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He was a monk. He was a monk, a penniless monk in India, and he was trying to follow
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the orders of his spiritual teacher by spreading love of God.
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He was not trying to start any kind of a political movement.
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Actually, he is trying to spark a revolution in consciousness.
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I think that you are also interested in revolution. We are also interested in revolution also.
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But we are interested in the revolution which will help people to feel peace with themselves,
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whether they’re Communists or Marxists or Leninists or whatever “ist” you like…
