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Prabhupada: How degraded they have become. There is no food, and they are busy for growing tobacco.

Hari-sauri: You say that's what they call a cash crop.

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Hari-sauri: The other day.

Prabhupada: Now eat cash. So cash is also paper. So what is the use of laboring so hard? You eat paper. Paper is available.

Yasomatinandana: It is prohibited to buy gold with that paper.

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Yasomatinandana: You cannot buy gold. Government has prohibited.

Prabhupada: Because you are rascal, your government is rascal. Democracy. What is the government? Government means your replica. So why do you blame the government? You are fools, rascals; you send other fools and rascals and suffer consequence. Tea, growing tobacco, growing jute, and no grains. And grain for the animal, so that animal, as soon as it becomes fatty, send it to the slaughterhouse, and then finish business. Smoke, eat meat, drink and be happy. So much land, but it is producing tobacco, which we are prohibiting, "No smoking."

[break] Vegetable is utilized. [Transl. What do you make from it?]

Indian man: [Transl. We make fence for protection.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. That is…No other usage.]

Indian man: [Transl. Otherwise it is used as dal.]

Yasomatinandana: [Transl. They make thorny bushes as found in the desert.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. What are these used for?]

Yasomatinandana: [Transl. Nothing.]

Indian man: [Transl. Just for the animals.]

Prabhupada: These crops.

Yasomatinandana: [Transl. Tur pulse. [arhar dal]]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Even animals won't eat them.]…asura janaḥ.

Yasomatinandana: pravrttim ca nivrttim… [Bg 16.7]

Prabhupada: [Transl. They don't know even how to live life…]

[break] ...nityanam cetanas cetananam. [Katha Upanisad 2.2.13]

Indian man: Prabha means effulgence.

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Indian man: Flash means effulgence.

Prabhupada: Yes. Prabha. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anḍa-koti [Bs 5.40].

Indian man: What is meant, "halo" and "effulgence"? That word meaning, "halo"? Prabha?

Prabhupada: Halo is chata [radiance]. Practically the same meaning.

[break] Just like field is green and this field is not green. If you take care, every field will be green.

[break] ...prasadam to the audience.

Yasomatinandana: Sumptuous.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Yasomatinandana: Full plate.

Prabhupada: Then accept program. [break] ...distribution of prasada, then we can go everywhere, whole day program. Kirtana and distribution. So that is going on. And simply dry philosophy, what people will understand?

Indian man: [Transl. So what prasad should we distribute after the program?]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Whatever you can provide.] dal, roti, rice, sabji. [Transl. Give sumptuously. Full belly.]

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