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Morning Conversation
April 19, 1977, Bombay Prabhupada: This is all right. And hand he cannot take? Problem. It is a problem?
Devotee (1): They're ready, Prabhupada. Yeah.
Prabhupada: So make a subcommittee immediately, resolution, consisting myself, yourself, and Gopala Krsna and Lokanatha Swami.
Prabhupada: Swami. We are all Indians. There will be no difficulty.
Prabhupada: No, he is Indian. Eh?
Prabhupada: Eh?
Prabhupada: So by Indian birth, that is all right. Citizenship, I am also Canadian. I have got Canadian immigration. First of all I took Canada immigration. Then, from there, I took U.S. immigration. So make a subcommittee immediately. Make resolution. Accha. What about the Canadian, Australian, English men? They also require the same?
Prabhupada: There is no excepting an Englishman. So anyway, you make these four men, subcommittee, and you take whatever land is given, given up to Krsna. Then pick up selected persons from each family and make a strong body. And then we organize Burma and Bangladesh. And he's going to Ceylon. Formerly India, Burma, Ceylon, they were one. And somebody's going to Pakistan. So there is chance of uniting all these different parts of India by Krsna consciousness. You have to organize. At least you organize here, Manipur center, Burma, and Bangladesh, and Assam. It will be successful.
Prabhupada: Eh? Yes.
Prabhupada: Yes. Indians... And Manipur, there are many men from Bangladesh.
Prabhupada: From Sylhet. Sylhet is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's place. There is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's forefathers' house, Sylhet. So what talk you had with that doctor?
Svarupa Damodara: Yes, his name is Dr. Sir M. S. Thakur, and we had a very interesting talk yesterday, and he's willing to come and stay in the temple for at least a week. He's going to come and stay here for at least a week.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Prabhupada: Very good. Let him come. Give him good place, and we shall talk.
Prabhupada: Oh, you were also present?
Giriraja: Yes.
Prabhupada: And what about municipality?
Giriraja: I met Mr. Rajda, and he had written a very nice letter to the Commissioner, and, the thing is, the typist made many mistakes, so in his office I personally retyped it, but by that time it was too late to meet the Commissioner, so he said to ring up today. But I also met the architect yesterday, and he says that the permission for the Gurukula is ready. It's signed and everything, and he's going to pick it up, I think, tomorrow morning. So in retyping the letter I minimized that. He said that actually those people were helping us, but they just had to, you know, dispose of Matrey's objections first. So the main things we're approaching for is this ten-foot piece of land, which is going to be a constant trouble.
Prabhupada: They have no use to ask for this ten feet.
Giriraja: No.
Prabhupada: Neither they have paid for it.
Giriraja: No, they haven't.
Prabhupada: Then why they are trying to occupy it unnecessarily?
Prabhupada: No aim.
Giriraja: It only has harassment value.
Prabhupada: That's all.
Giriraja: No.
Prabhupada: They can do nothing, they have no use, but simply harassment, these people.
Giriraja: Yeah. That's the only reason.
Prabhupada: So impress this point to Mr. Rajda.
Giriraja: Mr. Rajda himself in his letter wrote that this ten feet will be of no benefit either to the Municipality, either to the public, but it will only disturb us.
Prabhupada: So...
Giriraja: Now the only thing is that they may ask for some type of compensation.
Prabhupada: We shall give something to them, but we shall give.
Giriraja: Because technically, although there's no reason to it, but technically it is in their name right now.
Prabhupada: We shall give whatever Rajda will settle with them.
Giriraja: Yeah.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Giriraja: The normal rate... It's 220 yards. The normal rate is about a hundred rupees a yard. So it'd be 22,000 rupees.
Prabhupada: Oh, that's all right. Give him.
Giriraja: I'm sure that on that basis we can definitely settle now.
Prabhupada: That's all right. Make a settlement.
Giriraja: We'll try for less...
Prabhupada: No.
Giriraja: ...but if we pay the normal rate we can definitely settle it now.
Prabhupada: No, normal rate we shall pay. Finish.
Giriraja: And then the other thing is the garbage bin.
Prabhupada: No.
Giriraja: And I'm sure that we can get that removed also.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Giriraja: That's also simply harassment.
Prabhupada: Simply harassment.
Giriraja: No. He's notorious.
Prabhupada: He's Congress man. So nobody will elect Congress man.
Giriraja: No. He's like the Sanjay of the Municipality. Everyone knows he's corrupt and ruthless.
Prabhupada: So let Mr. Thakur come. He's chemist.
Prabhupada: So you also were present in that meeting with Mr. Thakur?
Giriraja: Yeah.
Svarupa Damodara: He also saw the movie that Yadubara had. We also presented a movie, and Mr. Thakur, Professor Thakur, was also watching.
Giriraja: He missed it. He missed the whole thing.
Prabhupada: No, you make some movie.
Svarupa Damodara: Yes, that was what I was discussing with Yadubara. That movie seems to be little too dilute.
Prabhupada: No, it is not made by scientific men. Layman-made. (laughs)
Svarupa Damodara: We discussed some point before he made movie, but we made very good point, but he didn't include any of those, what we suggested. At the beginning he has started. Then everything was some sort of a popularization of...
Giriraja: I thought it was like the new style of Back to Godhead.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Giriraja: Many attractive photos to appeal to the public taste, but less philosophy.
Prabhupada: We want now philosophy and science.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: So you should stop this, showing this. It may not be a laughing matter.
Svarupa Damodara: No. It may be of little use for these common people, just for women, children, that, for these. But personally I feel that...
Prabhupada: It will not...
Prabhupada: Then don't show it.
Prabhupada: They are... University students, they may be educated. They'll also make a... Don't make it a laughing stock.
Svarupa Damodara: Well, very little is there. Just started, then finished. So I said, "If it can be done, it can be a little elaborated. Give some more authentic examples, a little more discussion and some philosophy...
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: No, no. It is made by layman, so it is not valuable.
Tamala Krsna: Yadubara is coming to see you at the end of the massage today, so maybe you could give him some further direction.
Prabhupada: What I can do? He'll do.
Prabhupada: He should not produce such thing without consulting the scientific men.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Svarupa Damodara: The article that we are writing right now is very appropriate, that, the difference between spirit and matter. That is what he's trying to show there, but here we have many scientific evidence, and we can make it... So it will be very nice when we finish this monograph.
Prabhupada: So make it improved, and another film you can make. It doesn't matter.
Prabhupada: What is made is made. You can reject it. Make another, authentic. And I have asked to pay you for your department... What will be the savings?
Prabhupada: Half. What is that half?
Tamala Krsna: Somewhere between fifteen... Around fifteen, twenty thousand dollars perhaps, like that.
Prabhupada: Fifteen, twenty thousand dollars per month.
Prabhupada: So we can pay you so much. What was your estimate? You made some estimate.
Prabhupada: Six thousand dollars, but we are ready to spend fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. Make it nicely, everything. We shall spend. Make worldwide propaganda. And there will be no scarcity of money. Tour. Make extensive tour, especially in Russia. In Russia send this film group, the scientific group, and if the Doctor is seriously our friend, let him translate. And that translation, it shall be good.
Prabhupada: And the person who is translating, encourage him. Do this.
Prabhupada: Yes. Let him translate as many as possible. And make this program. And that twenty thousand dollars should not be touched. It will be simply spent for this propaganda.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: Yes. Scientific propaganda.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: It should be... It must be saved. Why not?
Prabhupada: And you spend.
Giriraja: Yeah.
Prabhupada: So that... That we have to...
Prabhupada: How it can be... This money must be reserved for scientific propaganda, twenty thousand rupees. They have agreed to save half, and half is twenty thousand. This must be saved.
Prabhupada: That's all.
Tamala Krsna: I asked him offhand how much he thought he could save. He said, "I think I could reduce the expenses by half."
Prabhupada: Half, this should be set aside for scientific...
Tamala Krsna: We'll have to see if he... I mean, that was a very quick statement that he made on the telephone.
Prabhupada: No...
Prabhupada: Now we have now Hindi books. So make nice propaganda. Because they supply from... All temple may be short. So we are also supplying some books for... So here we shall have to compensate by selling Hindi books. Or English books. We have to make some... Let Gargamuni be alert. If money's not coming from there, we shall have to supply money from here.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Tamala Krsna: Yes. Today I wanted to show Giriraja. There's a number of letters received where they make it very clear that they're not going to...
Prabhupada: No, he may see or not see; we must be prepared. Then we understand that something is being done now. Simply high talks will not do. Now they are spending lakhs, but actually we are getting some money by devotees' livelihood.
Prabhupada: Gargamuni is working, library party. So at least fifty percent of the collection should be spent for this construction.
Prabhupada: Yes. And any other party who are making book sale.
Prabhupada: So that means Gopala will pay from the bill.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Prabhupada: Yes. And that money should be reserved for their world propaganda, scientific. And this gurukula should be by local subscription, in this way. And settle up this by paying them also compensative, and begin immediately. And you acquire those lands immediately. They are ready to give. Take.
Prabhupada: Yes. That "We want to take it and develop it immediately."
Tamala Krsna: There's still many rooms in this two towers which have not yet been sold. So that could also bring in money.
Prabhupada: Yes. Mr. Thakur is coming today? No.
Prabhupada: So you can say, "Any day you are welcome." So he talked sense.
Prabhupada: He said very sensible thing, no.
Prabhupada: No, no, what is, what is his conception about God?
Giriraja: Well, spiritually, he's on the verge of becoming a devotee. He is...
Prabhupada: He has got attachment for Krsna.
Giriraja: He has attachment. And he realizes that if he develops his attachment for Krsna, that will solve all of his problems.
Prabhupada: If you simply follow the instruction of Krsna, the whole world will be perfect. That's all. But these rascals, they take Krsna as fictitious. Such a rascal, educated man, that for "fictitious Krsna," Vyasadeva has taken so much trouble. Such a great writer and Vedavyasa, and later on, all the acaryas, big, big acaryas, they have wasted time for something fictitious. Such a rascal. I say, "rascal..." (end)
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