God is a person with form and senses; denying this while claiming spirituality is gentlemanly atheism.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — October 7, 1975, Durban 751007MW-DURBAN [51:51 Minutes] Walk_751007MW-DURBAN [in car] Prabhupāda: "Please give up this post. Go away." "Why?" "Why? No 'why.' Give up. Die immediately." "All right, what can I do?" "No protest.
No. You must immediately vacate." "How things will go on? I am prime minister?" That, "Nonsense... I'll kick your on the face.
Get out." Then he has to accept, and he is prime minister. He has to accept the order of nature, prakṛti. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi, ahaṅkāra [Bg. 3.27]. And still he says, "I am.
I am. I am lord. I am minister. I am this.
Prabhupāda: Ahaṅkāra vimūḍhātmā. Rascal. Not only ahaṅkāra vimūḍhātmā; no knowledge. Such a big, very big rascals, Stalin, Lenin, when nature ordered, "Die now.
Finish your business..." And still, they are proud. I am doing all these things, and where is the guarantee that I shall stay here? At any moment I shall be asked to go away. No sense.
First of all make it assured that you shall be able to remain here. "No. That is not... I shall...