Perfect knowledge comes deductively from Krishna through the guru, not inductively from imperfect conditioned souls.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — July 12, 1975, Philadelphia 750712MW-PHILADELPHIA [27:30 Minutes] Walk_750712MW-PHILADELPHIA Kīrtanānanda: ...quotation from William Penn to the Indians. Prabhupāda: [reading] "I have great love and regard toward you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just and peaceable life. And the people I send are of the same mind. And I shall in all things behave." And what about the shooting? [laughter] [break] ...shooting?
Kīrtanānanda: "...good Indian was a dead Indian." Prabhupāda: Huh?
Kīrtanānanda: They made up a saying, "The only good Indian was a dead Indian." [break]
Prabhupāda: ...nation or... So? Dancing? Jayatīrtha: But it says in the Declaration of Independence—this is part of it here—it says that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." So they admitted that there was God.
Prabhupāda: Huh? Jayatīrtha: The founders of the nation admitted that there was God, but now they won't admit. [break]
Kīrtanānanda: ...that should be our Bicentennial celebration [indistinct]. [break]
Prabhupāda: ...all here? Jayatīrtha: Oh, yes. Prabhupāda: ...already very much attraction for this material world. That is called māyā. And when we are involved with these things, material prosperity, then we become more involved. On account of our material attachment, we are getting repetition of birth and death in different forms of life, and these attractions are making us more and more involved.