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Prabhupada: Yes, that is..., means they are rascal. When there is argument between you and me, if one becomes angry, that means he's a rascal. That is the proof. He cannot reply anymore. He has become angry. That is his defeat. Murkhaya upadeso hi prakopaya na santaye. [Canakya Panḍita]. Mūrkha, a rascal, is given good instruction, he'll be angry. So that is the proof that he's rascal. That is the proof. The example is given, payaḥ-panam bhujahganam kevalam visa-vardhanam [Canakya Panḍita]. Just like if you give milk, very nourishing food, to a human being, he will get strength, but if you give to a snake, it will increase poison. So that is the proof that "Here is a snake." So payaḥ-panam bhujahganam kevalam visa-vardhanam. If you give milk to a human child he'll grow healthy, and the same milk you give to a serpent child, it will grow poison. One day he'll: "Ohnn!" He'll ready to bite you. You have given milk, it has increased poison, and it will show his fangs, hood. That is asura. So therefore they become snakes, scorpion, so low-grade life. Snake life is so degraded that at once you see a snake, immediately every one of us will be ready to kill it. Everyone, without any mercy. Nobody will say, "No, no, let it go." So he is put into that life that he cannot come in the light. As soon as he comes in the vision of somebody, everyone is ready to kill. And nobody is sorry. Nobody is sorry. Prahlada Maharaja said that. Modeta sadhur api vrscika-sarpa-hatya [SB 7.9.14]. Even one is saintly person, he'll be satisfied if a snake is killed. Saintly person doesn't want that anyone should be killed, but if a snake is killed, he's happy: "Oh, you have done right." Modeta sadhur api vrscika-sarpa-hatya. So Prahlada Maharaja said that "My father is killed; nobody is unhappy. [laughter] Nobody is unhappy. But he was just like a snake and scorpion. Now You be satisfied. There is no cause of becoming angry. Everyone is satisfied." That was Prahlada Maharaja prayer. Find out this verse. Where is Seventh Canto?    (More...)

Prabhupada: If one is convinced about this philosophy, that is success. It doesn't matter what dress. Let him teach his family and neighborhood. Let them do their own business. It doesn't matter. That is... Let them understand Krsna, Krsna science. That is wanted. Do that program. Make that program. He is coming, Ramesvara. Take to it very seriously.    (More...)

Trivikrama: Buick? It's a good car.    (More...)

Prabhupada: At that time in India it was eight thousand rupees only. Very strong car.    (More...)

Trivikrama: From America it came?    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. American cars were selling during British days-Ford, Buick, Chevrolet. These cars were selling. Dodge. [Dr. Patel enters] Aiye. Jaya. In 1925 I purchased one Buick car, eight thousand rupees.    (More...)

Dr. Patel: That was..., small cars were everywhere seventeen hundred rupees in 1936-37.    (More...)

Prabhupada: And Ford car was very cheap.    (More...)

Dr. Patel: Thirty-two hundred rupees. V8 Ford cars were sold in Bombay market for thirty-two hundred rupees, 3,200. Now you send a car for repairs, the bill will be six thousand, seven thousand rupees.    (More...)

Prabhupada: What can be done? Things have gone high, I was calculating the other day-twenty times.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Thirty times, yes. My father's income was from 250 to 300, and we were living very comfortably.    (More...)

Dr. Patel: It was more than sufficient, those days.    (More...)

Prabhupada: No, no, that three hundred rupees means... What you calculated?    (More...)

Hari-sauri: Well, at 250 rupees it came to seven and a half thousand rupees now.    (More...)

Dr. Patel: That's right. So now they have started reading all these, our books. They will now make amendment on it. As you said, they will thesis, synthesis. The present practice of communism in Russia is much more diluted than what it was twenty, thirty years back.    (More...)