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January 15, 1976, Calcutta Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: This is?
Prabhupada: [break] These trees are brought from somewhere else.
Prabhupada: No. [break] Just see how they are doing.
Prabhupada: Garden. It was a jungle. Eh?
Prabhupada: [break] ...for foretelling, lavanyam kesa-dharanam. So all the young boys, they are keeping big, big hair. That is foretold in Bhagavata, five thousand years, "In Kali-yuga, they will think by keeping long hair they become more beautiful." (laughter) [break]
Madhudvisa: In Krsna's time everyone had long hair also.
Prabhupada: No.
Madhudvisa: No, it seemed like that was the style during those days, long hair.
Tamala Krsna: Also from the pictures we see that the residents of Nabadwip and Mayapura seemed to have long hair, the householders.
Prabhupada: Then why this statement is there, lavanyam kesa-dharanam? If it is approved, why Bhagavata criticizing?
Harikesa: Was long hair a sign of beauty in those days?
Prabhupada: It was not meant for everyone.
Harikesa: Ksatriyas.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Madhudvisa: [break] ...you were coming to Australia, we started to put in a chair lift up the stairs.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Madhudvisa: Last year you asked us to put in one lift, so we had the company on the line, one nice lift. It goes on the side of the stairs. You sit on it and it goes right up.
Prabhupada: It is already fixed?
Madhudvisa: Well, it can be fixed very easily. We have the contractor lined up.
Madhudvisa: Oh, yes, you don't have to walk up any stairs if you come to Australia.
Prabhupada: That's nice. (chuckles)
Madhudvisa: And your garden is all finished.
Prabhupada: Finished?
Madhudvisa: This much garden is all finished. It is all, I mean, complete, with flowers and grass and trees.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Madhudvisa: We are growing our own flowers in the back now.
Prabhupada: That is wanted.
Madhudvisa: We planted five thousand carnation plants, so we will supply all our own flowers from now on. (end)
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