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Morning Walk
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July 12, 1976, New York
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July 12, 1976, New York
760712MW-New York [62:20 Minutes]
The material world is blazing fire
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[in room]
Prabhupada: This is their position, and they are proud of their knowledge.
[The beginning is very gorgeous, but the outcome is insignificant, Canakya Pandita]
[speaks gibberish:] Aparkulasvenavargolajagundakuligondoliojalilavale... [laughter] You can talk like that, but what is the meaning of it? That intelligence they have got, to manufacture... I know, I was in the medical business. So any petty medicine, and you employ a medical man, and he'll present it in such a scientific way that people will think that it is very important thing. I know it well. In Bose's laboratory we used to do that. [gibberish:] Aparkulavenavargolajdgunda... This is... Simply soda bicarb and little this and that. So the modern world means how to befool persons, that's all. Not to enlighten them, but to keep them in ignorance and befool them more and more. And they like it. Under the influence of maya they like to be cheated. [sounds of fire engines] Now just see, the whole night there is blazing fire, and they are thinking they are happy. And if we sing samsara-davanala-lidha-loka, "the material world is blazing fire," that is sentiment. And this is not practical. Whole day and night, simply fire, disturbing. Such a big, important city, and they are disturbing always twenty-four hours, gon-gon-gon-gon-gon-gon-gon. They are so expert that this ordinary fire they can control. Another side is that nobody wants this fire, and why it is coming? Yatha duhkha... Prahlada Maharaja, long, long years ago: yatha duhkham ayatnatah [SB 7.6.3]. As this fire business is coming without my endeavor, similarly, the other part-distress; this is distress-other part, happiness, also will come. Why shall I endeavor for it?
So my energies should be utilized only for Krsna consciousness. This is civilization. And whole life, day and night, they are trying for material happiness, and that is not happening. The problems are increasing. No intelligence. Mudha. Mudho nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam [Bg 7.13]. They admit, the scientists, they admit that they are in ignorance. Simply bluff. Again one bluff, that Mars-going expedition. The business is going on in the Arizona, that's all. And after few years they will present some stone, "Now we went to Mars. There is no possibility of living there. Take this stone and sand and be satisfied for your millions of dollars that you have spent..." And they will say, "Oh, we have made scientific progress. I have got this stone from Mars." Yo kuttako badalata goli kiya uska teṅgri laya. There is a song in Bengal that formerly anything European, saheb, that is good. So one person is selling meat, flesh of dog. Flesh of dog nobody takes, at least in India. So he said that "This is not ordinary dog. This is the dog which was killed by Viceroy, that dog. And because Viceroy killed it, therefore it has become nice dog. You can eat it." So anything these so-called scientists said, that is to be accepted. Without any common sense. This is your intelligence. But I am fool Indian, I don't believe it. [laughter] I immediately capture the point, why this rascal is talking of Arizona? That means the whole business is going on in Arizona.
Ramesvara: Deliberately cheating. You said that in Los Angeles.
Prabhupada: Brought newspaper, and as soon as they say... Who said? Arizona?
Prabhupada: Stop. Don't read. It is now understood what is the... Mars, it is all in Arizona.
Prabhupada: Because I am the only one at the present moment intelligent.
Devotee: What is that?
Prabhupada: In other places they could not find, throughout the whole world. Arizona. That means the whole business is going on in Arizona.
Prabhupada: Yes. The moon business was done there.
Prabhupada: That's all.
Prabhupada: Just to convince people that our this rascal civilization is advanced.
Ramesvara: International conspiracy.
Ramesvara: Russia and America.
Prabhupada: All the so-called scientists.
Prabhupada: No, they are knowing. They talk. Core core mastuto bhai.
Ramesvara: It's a conspiracy.
Prabhupada: All thieves, they are cousin-brothers: "Don't expose me and I'll not expose you. Let us keep peace." Two thieves, he knows he is a thief, but if he wants to reveal a thief, then his business will be suffer.
Prabhupada: It's a fact.
Ramesvara: Srila Prabhupada, in Los Angeles I asked you about this one verse in the Bhagavatam where it says that in a previous Kali-yuga the materialists were able to travel to other planets.
Prabhupada: Ah, that is not attractive[?]
Prabhupada: Yes.
[devotees offer obeisances as Prabhupada leaves room]
[break] [in car]
Ramesvara: ...can't ever go to these other planets.
Prabhupada: Yes, they can go.
Ramesvara: They will be able to land there?
Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Why not?
Ramesvara: Because their body is meant...
Ramesvara: The demigods.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Ramesvara: But in this earth body they can go to another planets?
Prabhupada: Hmm?
Prabhupada: Yes, that is going.
Devotee (1): They are actually confounded by the element of time. They think that if they go in a spaceship they can then generate another human being by putting a man and a woman in the spaceship, and then they can continue on for some time like that.
Prabhupada: That is theory. It is theory.
Devotee (1): That's their idea, to reach very distant places.
Prabhupada: Yes, it is big hall.
Ramesvara: How many guests came yesterday? Did you tell Prabhupada?
Ramesvara: Some ambulance.
Prabhupada: Hmm.
Ramesvara: Some ambulance. Somebody is sick. Right now in New York City there is a big strike. The people who work in the hospitals, they refuse to work. They want more salary.
Prabhupada: What can be done? Price raising, they want all comforts.
Ramesvara: So if someone is sick they will not take him to the hospital because there is no one to take care of him there.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Ramesvara: Yesterday there was a big parade in New York City. All people who are against abortion, they were marching. The U.S. is having a presidential election, so the Democratic party, they are having their convention in New York City to decide who will be their candidate for president. So all these people were marching to try to convince him to be against abortion. But he has already said he will not take any issue, he will not take a stand, because it is too controversial.
Prabhupada: Who?
Ramesvara: The presidential candidate. He will not give his opinion.
Devotee: Who is that? Reagan?
Ramesvara: No, Carter. They are unwilling to give their opinion because then someone may not vote for them.
Prabhupada: Why they are for abortion?
Prabhupada: So why not become brahmacari?
Devotee (1): They want to dance without paying the piper. [laughter]
Prabhupada: Besides that, why birth control?
Prabhupada: [laughs] So much vacant land in your country.
Ramesvara: Their philosophy is first we'll conquer nature, then we'll talk about self-control. That is one philosophy.
Prabhupada: Which is impossible. They'll never be able. You can control nature only by self-control. Otherwise, it is not possible. Ajitendriyanam. [SB 7.9.46] Ajitendriya means those who cannot control the sense, sense or sense organs.
Prabhupada: [laughs] Hmm. Number one hundred.
Prabhupada: One hundred, Seventy-second Street.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: It is not residential.
Prabhupada: But I was residing there.
Ramesvara: That was where the typewriter was stolen?
Prabhupada: Yes. Tape recorder, typewriter.
Prabhupada: It was stolen by that caretaker, black man. He expected some monthly remuneration.
Tamala Krsna: The same thing happened at our temple here. They were employing one man for cleaning the floor. So after a while I told them, "Now fire this man." So anyway, they fired him. As soon as they fired him he stole a big air conditioner, worth five hundred dollars. Anyway, he came back later and we got the air conditioner. I caught him and I said, "Now bring it back," and I sent a devotee with him and he brought the air conditioner back.
[pause]
Prabhupada: Hmm?
Ramesvara: Yes, I'm going to go there with him when he comes.
Ramesvara: Yes, dolls, dioramas...
Ramesvara: ...of dinosaurs.
Ramesvara: They are convinced that dinosaurs, these gigantic animals, were living on this planet millions of years ago. They found some bones, and they have created the form of the animal body.
Prabhupada: If they were, it is still now.
Prabhupada: We don't say it is extinct. That is not possible.
Prabhupada: Yes, another. This planet, what you have seen?
Ramesvara: That's the point. What we have seen about this planet?
Devotee (1): Could still be here. They found one in, where is that? In Ireland?
Prabhupada: Cannot be extinct. That is not possible.
Devotee (1): In that lake?
Prabhupada: No, no, may be on this planet, but it doesn't matter that it is extinct. You have not seen.
Ramesvara: Their idea is that at that time man was living in the form of half monkey, half man in a cave, and gradually he evolved to become more civilized.
Prabhupada: That is still there. Kinnaras. Kinnaras. Kinnaras means it is doubtful whether he is man or monkey.
Prabhupada: Or what is called? The big...?
Prabhupada: Gorilla, they are like men.
Prabhupada: They have got their senses like men.
Ramesvara: That is the Museum of Natural History. They spend millions of dollars on these museums, making these displays. [break]
[walking]
Prabhupada: ...for dog, means she's going to become dog. She does not know how she is spoiling the life.
Prabhupada: No, that is another plan. At least she does not know how things are going on.
[pause]
Prabhupada: Dusty here, eh? No one is taking care.
Prabhupada: Why he's going there?
Prabhupada: Well, this is good lake. People are becoming dishonest. They'll take money and do nothing.
Prabhupada: I have seen in New Delhi, I was going to sell my Back to Godhead, so they were all sitting and gossiping, and files are piled up. If you want some file it will take six months. Doing nothing. Sixty percent of the employees are simply wasting time.
Prabhupada: Why they will do, when they get money without doing?
Prabhupada: Just see, why this wood is dried up? Why?
Prabhupada: Yes, from the..., it is out of touch from the original bark. Similarly, any civilization which is out of touch of God consciousness, that will dry up in due course of time.
Prabhupada: Hmm?
Devotee (1): In other words, they don't accept that we have any proof that God exists. They say God doesn't exist.
Prabhupada: God exists, we have given so many proofs. If the rascal cannot understand, what can be done? There is mother, there is children; where is the father? This is our argument. Mother, the earth is mother, and everything, these trees, we are all coming out of mother, mother nature. And who is the father? What is the answer? Now, what the atheist will say that there is no God? How they will say?
Ramesvara: They say the earth is the mother and the father.
Prabhupada: Huh?
Ramesvara: They say the earth is the mother and the father.
Prabhupada: No. That is another nonsense. Because you cannot see, practically, the mother and father is the same person. That is not..., father is different.
Prabhupada: No, apart from that, mother and father cannot be one; they must be two, from our practical experience. So how can I accept a rascal like you that father and mother the same?
Prabhupada: Huh?
Prabhupada: But he has a father, and the mother is that lotus flower.
Ramesvara: Material energy.
Devotees: Oh.
Prabhupada: First of all, you study you animal, whether your father and mother is the same. Then go to other animals. First of all you animal, you study yourself.
Ramesvara: They want this impersonalism. They don't like the philosophy of personalism.
Prabhupada: Whole thing is personalism. You are talking because you are a person. You are talking all nonsense because you are person. Neither the air is talking, neither sky is talking. Because you are a person you are talking so many nonsense things.
Devotee (1): But then they'll say that after death that person doesn't exist any longer. That personality ceases to...
Prabhupada: Talk of the present, when you are existing.
Devotee (1): Yes. Their mentality forces them to believe only what they see.
Prabhupada: You see there is father and mother. Why don't you believe that there must be a father and mother for the whole cosmic? You see everywhere there is father and mother.
Devotee (1): But they don't accept that as God's arrangement.
Prabhupada: That means a crazy fellow. They manufacture their own idea. There is no reason.
Ramesvara: They say within the father and mother is the cosmic energy of life.
Prabhupada: The principle. The principle. You have to see the principle. That is philosophy.
Prabhupada: God says. Not only says; we don't see any production without seed-giving father.
Prabhupada: But you don't see your father; does that mean there was no father? Suppose before your birth your father died, does it mean you have no father?
Prabhupada: Yes, that's all right. You ask your mother, and she will inform you. The mother is Vedic knowledge.
Ramesvara: They say that matter can neither be destroyed nor created. It exists eternally. But there is no need for a creator.
Prabhupada: Why your body does not exist?
Prabhupada: No, at least this body does not exist. This body was not in existence, it was created, and at the present you see, and in the past this body will not remain there.
Prabhupada: That is another thing.
Prabhupada: That is there.
Prabhupada: Yes, but whose energy?
Prabhupada: Don't waste time. You stop this. If you imitate a madman, then you become mad. [laughter] Don't try to talk on behalf of these madmen.
Prabhupada: That's it.
Ramesvara: Prabhupada, in New York City, many of these big buildings have courtyards, and in the courtyards they have purchased sculpture. So all the sculpture is abstract. They are against form; they are all impersonalists. And they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to have these gigantic structures. All over New York City you see them. They have no form. They are simply...
Prabhupada: That is a form. The structure itself has a form.
Ramesvara: But it's abstract. It's to give the idea...
Prabhupada: No, it is not ab..., it is form.
Prabhupada: Yes, it is a form of their imagination, that's all. Not standard form, but it is a form. They want to make everything formless with form. That means they cannot avoid form.
Devotees: Oh, jaya. [break]
Prabhupada: ...reason they cannot keep this park neat and clean? In other cities they keep.
Prabhupada: How is that? In America, city, New York, they cannot pay?
Devotee (1): They have mismanaged the whole thing.
Prabhupada: So much drinking, they must be lazy.
Devotee (1): Yes.
Prabhupada: So much drinking excessively. Drinking means laziness.
Ramesvara: Also the banks, they loan the city money, but at a very high interest rate. So then the city cannot afford it.
Ramesvara: They loan the city money at a very high interest rate, so in order to pay it back they have to borrow more money. [break]
Prabhupada: ...dried up on account of being detached from the original bark. Similarly, as soon as any civilization detached from God consciousness, they'll dry up.
Devotee (1): Simply buildings and cement, that is their culture.
Prabhupada: No, it cannot last.
Prabhupada: They'll dry. That is the nature's way. Harav abhaktasya kuto mahad-gunah [SB 5.18.12]. Anyone detached from God consciousness, he has no qualification. Manorathena. Their only qualification is mental concoction. That's all. Just see, how this... In America, such a wretched man. Willfully. Willfully.
Devotee (1): They've become useless.
Prabhupada: This is due to excessive meat-eating, intoxication, sex. This is the result.
Devotee (1): They've wasted their brains.
Prabhupada: That is the reason.
Devotee (3): That's one reason crime is so high is because of intoxication.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee (3): Always increasing crime.
Ramesvara: In America, millions of people have guns in their houses. Very common. They are all preparing for fighting.
Hari-sauri: You said once in the Srimad-Bhagavatam that the one principle that gives the most trouble is the fearing in the material world.
Prabhupada: Yes.
[break] [in car]
Ramesvara: ...by America. That is a common... So whenever the Congress tries to pass a law to control the purchasing of guns, it is always defeated. They want the people to be able to have guns. They make a lot of money, also, selling guns.
Prabhupada: The best thing is that they should be educated to become gentlemen. Keep guns, but they may not improperly use them. That they should be taught.
Ramesvara: When New York City had to start borrowing money from the banks, the banks became very powerful. They were able to control the city government and get many favors.
Prabhupada: What is that favor?
Ramesvara: They get special contracts, concession rates, and they are able to get their men appointed to important government positions. Also, in the national government, the government of the United States has to always borrow money from banks. There is something called National Debt. Hundreds of billions of dollars they owe to banks, the United States government, to support all their different programs.
Prabhupada: National Debt.
Ramesvara: National Debt. So then the banks are able to use their power to get favors. "Oh, you want to borrow money? Then you must give me some favor." It's common knowledge.
Ramesvara: Some people say that there is a worldwide conspiracy of bankers, that they can control any government. They can cause a depression. They say that the bankers caused the depression in the 1920s, 1930s, just to increase their power.
Prabhupada: Yes. As soon as you become dependent on me, I pay money, you can create some trouble for me. That is conspiracy[?].
[pause]
Prabhupada: What is this? Memory?
Devotee (1): Yes, World War I.
Ramesvara: ...came here, Baradraj and myself went to Salt Lake City to visit the church of the Mormons. The Mormon religion is a branch of Christianity, and they own the whole city of Salt Lake City. It's the capital of Utah, one of the United States states. So they control the whole city, and it is planned with the temple in the center of the city. Like our Mayapur plan. And all around the streets are named after the temple. It is well planned. And in the temple square they have a big visitor center, and it costs hundreds of millions of dollars, with dioramas and movies. They even have a little planetarium. It's all for recruiting people to join their religion. So we went there to study how they did it. Actually, it's all based on a crazy philosophy.
Ramesvara: They say that after Jesus Christ was crucified in Israel, he rose, and then the next stop he came to America.
Prabhupada: Hmm? Next...?
Ramesvara: Next he came to America. Because Jesus, they say, is the savior of the whole world, so why just Israel?
Ramesvara: Immediately afterwards.
Ramesvara: He gave another Bible teaching. Again he converted people to follow, to accept him as God. So this whole religion is based on his teachings when he came to America.
Ramesvara: They say that God orders every man to get married.
Prabhupada: That is a good idea.
Devotee (1): They also have a policy that anyone who is born in their family has to go on a missionary work for two years, then he's fulfilled his obligation. So the young men go overseas for two years.
Prabhupada: That is also good.
Devotee (1): Yes.
Ramesvara: No, they abstain from... In Salt Lake City you are not allowed to smoke cigarettes. They have passed a law, "No cigarettes."
Ramesvara: In the whole city.
Devotee (1): Wow, that's pretty heavy.
Ramesvara: But they have meat-eating. Originally they are not supposed to, but they are already deviating.
Devotee (1): Do they still have many wives?
Ramesvara: No, that's against the law. Originally they believed in polygamy...
Prabhupada: But now they are changing.
Ramesvara: Yes, now they are changing.
Prabhupada: That means no fixed-up arrangement.
Devotee (1): No sound philosophy.
Prabhupada: What is that?
Prabhupada: We don't encourage sex life on the whole.
Ramesvara: They say that when you are married in their Church, it means that when you then quit your body and you go to the spiritual world...
Prabhupada: No, we condone marriage. Marriage is Vedic principle.
Prabhupada: Yes, I know.
Prabhupada: Yes. Just on the corner of Amsterdam and Seventy-second.
Ramesvara: They say that when you go to the spiritual kingdom, you keep your same wife and your same children. That is their idea of marriage.
Prabhupada: This is Amsterdam?
Devotee (1): You walked here, Srila Prabhupada?
Ramesvara: Right here is number one hundred.
Prabhupada: Here is.
Devotee (1): There is one hundred.
Prabhupada: Yes. That's it.
Devotee (1): It says "Watergate." Watergate Hotel.
Prabhupada: And I was trying to purchase one house here.
Prabhupada: I think third floor. And there was electrician, he was my friend, one Jewish gentleman.
Devotee (1): You would walk on this street?
Prabhupada: Yes. There is one building with temperature, a gauge? Here it is. This is Broadway. I was taking bath here in a station. Sometimes I was taking the station... I think this building is new. I was going to Dr. Mishra's apartment for cooking.
Prabhupada: He... Seventy-eighth. The Riverside corner. Yes, I was purchasing my goods from this store.
Devotee (1): Westend Superette.
Prabhupada: They were charging, a little chili powder, twenty-five cents. In India it may be one anna.
Prabhupada: Yes, because I was going to cook my food there, so whatever I needed, I used to...
Prabhupada: Huh? There was no place.
Prabhupada: It was an office room. That building is meant for office, not for residency.
Prabhupada: Yes, I was paying seventy-two dollars a month.
Prabhupada: No, there was bed where I was sleeping. There is toilet and water, but no bath and no cooking.
Devotee (1): Did you have to go there to bathe also?
Prabhupada: Yes, I was taking bathing there.
Prabhupada: Yes, I had little platform. So on that platform.
Devotee (1): We will never be able to do what you have done.
Prabhupada: Alone I was doing that. And then gradually one or two boys began to come.
Prabhupada: No.
Prabhupada: No, they came there, Second Avenue.
Prabhupada: All of them.
Rupanuga: That's amazing. How long were you there, Srila Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: Here? About six months. Then when my things were stolen, when one boy was coming, his name was Paul Murray, he invited me that "You come to my loft." He took me to Bowery Street.
Devotee (1): I met that boy in Amherst.
Prabhupada: Paul Murray?
Devotee (1): Yes. He has a boutique; he sells clothing.
Prabhupada: Yes, I felt little disappointed. But some friends, they offered me, "Never mind, you take my typewriter," somebody, "You take my tape recorder."
Rupanuga: Krsna always provides facilities.
Prabhupada: So there was no difficulty. I got from other friends.
Prabhupada: That boy, I gave him, Haridasa, who was in San Francisco?
Prabhupada: So this Paul Murray... Haridasa left New York, he went to San Francisco. His name was something else. What is this?
Prabhupada: Oh. Steel factory, but very good house?
Prabhupada: Yes, he was LSD man.
Prabhupada: Not attack, but he showed some ferocious mood. I thought...
Devotee (1): Very dangerous.
Prabhupada: Yes, immediately.
Prabhupada: Yes, I kept with Mukunda.
Prabhupada: No, that is another boy, Yeargens.
Prabhupada: He's black.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee (1): So at that time you did not think that anyone would accept your philosophy.
Prabhupada: That I was certain. At the beginning I was...
Ramesvara: Prabhupada was certain that they would accept.
Tamala Krsna: I think, Prabhupada, that your exploits here are no less great than Lord Caitanya going into the Jharikhanda forest and making the animals dance.
Prabhupada: [laughs] Yes.
Prabhupada: This is building construction?
Prabhupada: The Bell?
Devotee (1): New York Telephone Company.
Prabhupada: In Pittsburgh... I was living in Butler, and a girl took me to Pittsburgh. So I saw at that time that she had to pay two dollars for parking.
Prabhupada: Prasadam will conquer everyone.
Ramesvara: That is how we get all our men to join.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: Huh?
Prabhupada: What is this street?
Prabhupada: Asia?
Devotee (1): And liquor.
Devotee (1): Like the Muslims. [end]
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