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Dr. Sharma: Many of the even small temples in villages, their revenue have been taken away after independence. There are many small temples in where I come from, our village in Rajasthan. And when I was a small boy I used to go to the temple because, you know, my grandfather and my father used to go to the.... And there was a very rich life in the villages because, you know, the early morning, we would take a shower, bath, and go to the temples and do our pūja, and the temple also we'd get some prasadam, and there was some land grants attached to a temple, some cows...    (More...)
Dr. Sharma: Contribution. And there was a real rich life in Indian village. Now, after independence, that life has been really destroyed. Because the grants have been taken away and here, it's really a pain to see such beautiful temples having no maintenance now. Plus this so-called secular education, you know, godless education they have introduced, that has further harmed, because the temple-going public has also dwindled in number. And it looks like there has been a systematic plan to undermine our...    (More...)
Prabhupada: Oh, yes, by this Congress. Their opinion is that India, being too much religious, is spoiled.    (More...)
Dr. Sharma: Yes. Also I just happened to do a survey in South about the veda-pathi brahmanas who were having the complete control...    (More...)
Prabhupada: The brahmanas, they, from your Rajasthan, the other day I got report. Twenty thousand brahmanas have come here in Bombay to serve as tea-walla.    (More...)
Prabhupada: So who is caring for the... Because there is no maintenance, there is no education, so how the brahmanas are being maintained?    (More...)
Dr. Sharma: These, the Rajasthani brahmanas were not that, you know, strong brahmanas as you see in South. In the South the brahmanas are very Vaisnavas-bhakta, very staunch, and they were veda-pathis. They had the whole aural...    (More...)
Prabhupada: No. Veda... Because the brahmanas, they should be veda-pathi, at the same time, the public also must know the importance of Vedas. So if you prepare the public that it is useless, then how these brahmanas can be maintained?    (More...)
Dr. Sharma: Right now the number is dwindling so fast. The number of people who have the tenth patha veda...    (More...)
Prabhupada: Kalau sūdra-sambhavaḥ. Kali-yuga... [break]    (More...)

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