swans and crows

Prabhupada: "So what nonsense book you have got? [laughter] We are going to stop your sales." Tell them. "And we are going to stop your sales. Instead of helping you for selling your books, we are going to stop all these nonsense books. That is our mission." Tad vayasam tirtham. That is explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Na yad vacas citra-padam harer yaso, pragrnita karhicit, tad vayasam tirtham usanti manasaḥ [SB 1.5.10]. That verse, that however nicely it is written with..., what is called, metaphor, poetic ornaments, and very good language, grammatical set-up, and so on, so on... So that, although it is very nicely written from literary point of view, but because it does not contain any glorification of Krsna, it is just like the spot where the crows take pleasure. Crows. The crows means they will go the nasty place where all nasty things are thrown. They take pleasure there. So all these other literature, they are meant for the crows. And this literature is meant for the swan, paramahamsa, white swans. So it is not the bodily color; it means those who are advanced in their development of life, consciousness, it is meant for them. It is not for the crows, who are still eating all nasty things in the garbage. Crows, they do that. They take pleasure where there are garbage, all nasty things, that's all. And the big swans, they will like water like this, garden like this. That is... Even in the lower animals, there is difference between the crow's society and swan's society. [police siren sounds] What is this?    (More...)