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Deprogramming Threatens Religious Freedom In America, Non-Devotees Remain Foolish Animals

📅 February 18, 1977 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 24 min
Those ignorant of Krishna consciousness remain foolish animals, no matter their degrees or position.
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Prabhupāda: So I think that we can go day after tomorrow.

Satsvarūpa: He writes a note at the end of the form here just... [break] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...kidnapped three of our devotees about a week before we... Just about a week...

Prabhupāda: So we cannot take any police action? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, no, because the kidnapping is legal. They got...

Prabhupāda: Then what can be done? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They got permission from the court for conservatorship. Ādi-keśava: But two of the devotees have already escaped.

Prabhupāda: If it is legal, what can I say? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, that's... This is their new tactic now. This is their new tactic, that they're getting the court permission.

Prabhupāda: Then Americans' liberty is gone. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's why the lawyers and others are very alarmed, the intellectuals, 'cause they're seeing it is becoming like Russia. Ādi-keśava: They're saying now that psychological freedom is more important in the law than religious freedom. Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, if the law helps to kidnap, then what you can do? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He says that just now there was a meeting of the five hundred leading rabbis of the Jewish faith in favor of deprogramming, because they're very alarmed that the young men and women of the synagogues are joining our movement and other type of movements and leaving their so-called past religion. So the rabbis are going to take up... They like this deprogramming. They like this kidnapping.

And he says also that just now in Newsweek magazine there's been a big article printed in favor of deprogramming, special article about this Tucson, Arizona, deprogramming center. So he says that he expects more and more of this deprogramming. He's a little bit alarmed, because all of our leaders will be here in India now for the next few weeks. Ādi-keśava: Turn the fan off... Prabhupāda: The light, not the fan. Hari-śauri: It won't turn off the same way it turned on. Prabhupāda: Why don't you do it? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So he's a little alarmed that we'll all be coming to India, and these deprogrammers, they know this. So he's concerned. Prabhupāda: So do you think by going there they'll be saved?

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