Rasa Manjari "Prabhupada: No, it is useless to talk with them. If you can peacefully sell some books, that's all. Don't enter into very long arguments, because they are all rascals. They cannot understand. Better peacefully, as far as possible, sell some books. Dante nidhaya trnakam padayor nipatya kaku-satam krtva ca... This is the process. They cannot understand that because there is soul within the child, therefore child is becoming boy. As soon as there is no soul, the child does not become a boy. This simple philosophy they cannot understand, so what is their position? Now, this car is standing because there is no driver. Anyone can understand. Stand still. It will remain there for thousands of years unless a driver comes. Simple reason. But they are so rascal, they will not understand. So what is the use of talking with them? Simply waste of time.
Devotee (1): These people cannot be converted.
Prabhupada: That is a fact. The dog cannot be converted. But we have to do it with stick. "
Devotee (1): These people cannot be converted.
Prabhupada: That is a fact. The dog cannot be converted. But we have to do it with stick. "
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Rasa Manjari "So in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the beginning you'll find in the introduction, paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ satām. Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ atra. Atra means "in this book, in this transcendental literature," dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra... [SB 1.1.2]. Kaitavaḥ means cheating. Dharmaḥ means religiosity. Religiosity or the cheating type of religiosity is not here. It is for paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ, for persons who are not envious. The crowlike birds or crowlike men or karmīs, they're envious. You'll find. And even, without any offense... Just like dog: You pass on. Without any offense, he'll bark, "Ow, ow, ow, ow." (laughter) You have no offense. You have no offense, but it will try to pick up some quarrel with you. Sometime it will come to bite you unless you have got sufficient stick to show. (laughter) So, similar... There are dogs and cats and hogs. There are similar men also. They will simply pick up quarrel unnecessarily. Sometimes political leaders... Just like in Europe, Hitler unnecessarily picked up some war, and there was devastation all over the world. You see. There was no gain. The Germany become defeated and bifurcated. So this leader could not do anything good to the nation, but unnecessarily picked up some quarrel. So that is the cause of world trouble, the crowlike men, the doglike men, the hoglike men. So we have to create paramahaṁsas, good men. Then you can expect peace and prosperity. If you create cats and dogs, then how can you expect that there will be peace, there will be no war, there will be no disturbance? No." His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
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Time goes on. One can spend literally years convincing a jnani, they are sometimes so full of brains that they can no longer hear. I did that once, a friend and student of philosophy, it took one year of talking just to define our terms!! - no kidding. He took to Krsna after a long going while, but still retained an adherence to Crowley and such speculative monsters also. So, one person, about one and a half years of talking. Waste of precious time? Eventually he got the books, that s what really did it, that plus my friendship helped him, seeing someone else practising. Hare Krsna