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Prabhupāda: No we have to accept in consideration of facilities or. Good and better, which is better?

Devotee: Wouldn’t a person have to be [indistinct] process before he could accept the process of Vedic authority at all?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Devotee: Well already people are doing that.

Prabhupāda: At least one who is accepting [indistinct] the Vedic authorities.

Karāndhara: One of the main reasonings would be, why should we accept ancient Indian or Vedic history when look what …

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Karāndhara: They’ll say look what’s happened to India.

Prabhupāda: Yes, you’re actually looking, your generation are going there, looking something better in India. Everywhere, Europe and America they …

Karāndhara: Those who are not so interested in philosophy they go to India and they say look how much poverty …

Prabhupāda: [laughs] actually they do not go to see the poverty. They go to see Indian culture but when they …

Karāndhara: Well either one, they’ll say, just like why should we accept the African culture?

Prabhupāda: Africans they have no culture. In Africa they go to see the animals, not for culture. But they go …

Devotee: India is also very insanitary, materially [indistinct] so people are not so inclined [indistinct]

Prabhupāda: Well materially India is not advanced like the Western countries.

Karāndhara: Most scientists aren’t so. Aren’t very philosophically disposed. We tell them of the super excellency of the Vedic culture …

Prabhupāda: India now, means they have given up Vedic culture. For the last one thousand years being foreign dominated they …

There was a grocer’s shop in Waterloo Street in Calcutta that was formerly known as Rāṇī Mūḍhāni’s lane because Rāṇī …

Devotee: They would say that indicates that, that culture wasn’t strong because it became dominated.

Prabhupāda: It was the best culture, you rascal demons took advantage of it because they are so simple, anyone was …