Srila Prabhupada on Vox populi
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Bhakti Vikasa Swami
1:05 AM (8 hours ago) 1:05 AM
to BVKS Sanga, (Krsna) Katha, (ISKCON) Lipa Dalmacija, Prabhupada Said
Prabhupada: It will not depend on opinion. Opinion... What is the value of
opinion if the people are all asses? There is no opinion. One should take as
it is enjoined in the sastra. No opinion. What is the use of taking opinion
of an ass? So the people are trained up just like dogs and asses, then what
is the use of their opinion? If you are to enforce, you must do like this.
Just like when we introduced this "No illicit sex." I never cared for their
opinion. The opinion..., immediately there will be discussion. And what is
the use of taking their opinion? It must be done. That is the defect of
Western civilization. Vox populi, taking opinion of the public. But what is
the value of this public? Drunkards, smokers, meat-eaters, woman-hunters.
What is the... They are not first-class men. So what is the use of such
third-class, fourth-class men's opinion? We do not advocate such opinion.
What Krsna said, that is standard, that's all. Krsna is the Supreme, and His
version is final. No opinion, no democracy. When you go to a physician,
doctor, for treatment, the physician does not place his prescription for
opinion of other patients: "Now I am prescribing this medicine for this
gentleman. Now give me your opinion." Does he do that? The all patients,
what they will give, opinion? The physician is the perfect person. Whatever
he has written prescription, that's all right. But here in the Western...,
everything, public opinion.
Mr. Moore: You don't think that patients have any mind of their own?
Prabhupada: They have mind, but that is deprecated mind. Just like madman,
he has got his mind, but what is the value of that mind? You are not going
to take opinion of a madman. He has his mind, but he is a madman. Mudha.
Mayayapahrta-jnana [Bg 7.15]. His knowledge has been taken away. The mind
being in disordered condition, there is no value of his opinion.
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Room Conversation with Director of Research of the Dept. of Social Welfare
-- May 21, 1975, Melbourne
opinion if the people are all asses? There is no opinion. One should take as
it is enjoined in the sastra. No opinion. What is the use of taking opinion
of an ass? So the people are trained up just like dogs and asses, then what
is the use of their opinion? If you are to enforce, you must do like this.
Just like when we introduced this "No illicit sex." I never cared for their
opinion. The opinion..., immediately there will be discussion. And what is
the use of taking their opinion? It must be done. That is the defect of
Western civilization. Vox populi, taking opinion of the public. But what is
the value of this public? Drunkards, smokers, meat-eaters, woman-hunters.
What is the... They are not first-class men. So what is the use of such
third-class, fourth-class men's opinion? We do not advocate such opinion.
What Krsna said, that is standard, that's all. Krsna is the Supreme, and His
version is final. No opinion, no democracy. When you go to a physician,
doctor, for treatment, the physician does not place his prescription for
opinion of other patients: "Now I am prescribing this medicine for this
gentleman. Now give me your opinion." Does he do that? The all patients,
what they will give, opinion? The physician is the perfect person. Whatever
he has written prescription, that's all right. But here in the Western...,
everything, public opinion.
Mr. Moore: You don't think that patients have any mind of their own?
Prabhupada: They have mind, but that is deprecated mind. Just like madman,
he has got his mind, but what is the value of that mind? You are not going
to take opinion of a madman. He has his mind, but he is a madman. Mudha.
Mayayapahrta-jnana [Bg 7.15]. His knowledge has been taken away. The mind
being in disordered condition, there is no value of his opinion.
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Room Conversation with Director of Research of the Dept. of Social Welfare
-- May 21, 1975, Melbourne
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