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Prabhupada: Fools, they assemble together, and people are unhappy. Democracy. Eh? Communist?

Atreya Rsi: But they have some sort of democracy themselves.

Prabhupada: They are dictators. Actually, Stalin's dictatorship was going on.

Atreya Rsi: It's all dictatorship.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Atreya Rsi: Democracy is also dictatorship, but by elections. They elect a fool...

Prabhupada: [laughs]

Atreya Rsi: ...and then he can be..., do whatever he wants. [indistinct] powerful as a king. [break]

Prabhupada: The sacrifice means the animal slaughter has to be made in the mosque, is it not?

Devotee: Yes. I think so.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Devotee: It has to be made under special conditions. [break]

Prabhupada: ...they can be turned into Vaisnavas. [break] Young preachers, hopeless [break] ...real thing, and people follow, then everything is perfect.

Atreya Rsi: Yes, then you can rule the world.

Prabhupada: Yes. [break] ...side combined together it is very pleasing. [break] Eh?

Atreya Rsi: Tehran used to be very beautiful before there were so many cars. Very clear, very clear. And the land, when I was a child, the land was very, very cheap here. So now it is, everything, very, very expensive and very polluted with car.

Prabhupada: Due to the cars?

Atreya Rsi: Yes.

Devotee: Everyone was a farmer, now everyone is a factory worker.

Atreya Rsi: Yes. So it was very nice, very clear and very nice.

Prabhupada: Again let them become farmers. [break]

Atreya Rsi: The mornings were largely very cool, very cool, and during the day it was very hot. The mornings were always very clear and cool. [devotees chanting japa in background] [break]

Prabhupada: Enquire.

Atreya Rsi: Yes, we [indistinct]. [break]

Prabhupada: ...questions.

Devotee: We're going to help him write it. [break]

Prabhupada: In India, Tirupati, I think that Deity is richer than many kings in the world. Daily, 100,000 rupees, not less, daily. [break] ...few kings who has got so much money? If you organize, you can take the whole income for cause of Krsna consciousness, if you are really organized. That is possible.

Atreya Rsi: Where is this temple?

Prabhupada: In South India.

Atreya Rsi: South India. [break] [indistinct] and searching, searching you'll find in modern [indistinct] very hard penalties. For industrialists, they are making life very difficult.

Prabhupada: Where? Where?

Atreya Rsi: In India.

Prabhupada: In India. Oh.

Atreya Rsi: One industrialist friend, Patel's friend, who has come to Tehran, I visited him. Very, very rich industrialist. He built a temple, very nice temple, he said, and then the government was not pleased that he has built a temple, and they came and searched his house and gave him twenty million rupees' penalty.

Prabhupada: For constructing a temple?

Atreya Rsi: Well, for taxes and things. But their real reason was they were not happy that he was spending his money to construct a temple. I don't think even [indistinct] permit this Juhu Beach.

Prabhupada: Huh?

Atreya Rsi: Juhu Beach temple? You couldn't get permit?

Prabhupada: I don't mind. Our work is going on. It doesn't matter. [end]