770103r2.bom
Room Conversation

January 3, 1977, Bombay
Prabhupada: Why should be checked? This is the point.
Giriraja: I don't think that the court will decide against us.
Prabhupada: If they decide that... There are many other court judgments in our favor. Then we must adopt civil disobedience. There is no other, second way. "Capriciously you cannot impose anything against the law, against the judgment. If you do, then we shall also disobey." That should be the last resolve.
Hari-sauri: I remember when we were first beginning in Melbourne we were harassed very tremendously by the Council.
Prabhupada: Yes, I know that.
Hari-sauri: And they were putting us in jail and everything. And actually every court decision was against us too. But somehow or another, we just went out on sankirtana, every day distributing. We were getting booked, then fined. Then we wouldn't pay the fines, so they would come and they would raid the temple at two o'clock in the morning and try and take us away to jail. And... It went on for months. And then in the end there was so much publicity about it... When we went to jail we were fasting. So there was so much publicity that the Council became very embarrassed that they couldn't get rid of these boys and girls. They became so embarrassed that they stopped their harassment, and we carried on with our sankirtana activities. So actually, if we just determine just to stick with it, then there's nothing they can do. What can they do to us unless they kill us? I don't think they can do that.
Prabhupada: So your wife came... [break] This is Indian attitude. They do not care for the modern, civilized way of life, wasting time reading some nonsense book or going to the bars, the cinema, talking unnecessarily. They do not like. Those who are old style, they do not.
Gopala Krsna: No, I know many women who are very good cooks, I have tasted...
Prabhupada: They have no time to waste time in that way. They must be inclined that "I must prepare something nice so that my husband, my children or my, all friends will be very pleased." That is their policy. I wanted that all our girls, they should be expert. And in America they are doing that. They should learn the art of cooking and prepare very nice foodstuffs, daily change of menu. And the children should be so trained up that no more birth. And that is life. They can produce hundreds of children, it doesn't matter, but must be responsible that "The children should be saved. This is the last birth, no more birth. I'll train the child in such a way that next life he's going to Krsna, back to home, back to Godhead." That is parent's duty. Otherwise they should not become parent. That is contraceptive: "I am not fit to train my children in that way, so I shall not produce cats and dogs." This is life. Why shall I produce cats and dogs? And Bhaktivinoda Thakura was grhastha, he produced Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. That is one... So in this way, if there is ideal institution, ideal mode of living, it is happy; everything is all right. That is grhastha. Produce Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. My Guru Maharaja used to say that "If I can produce krsna-bhakta as children, then I'm prepared to marry and produce hundreds of children." And if we cannot, then we shall not produce even one children. Just like Vasudeva and Devaki in their previous life. What was the name? Their determination is "If we can get a child like God, then we shall produce. Otherwise we go on, tapasya. And when Krsna came, "What do you want?" "I want You." "Who is like Me? I shall appear. I shall appear." Anyway, we have got such huge establishment. Utilize it very properly everywhere. Another thing, that in Vrndavana... You remember the corner land, parikrama, last time? That is available by acquirement.
Gopala Krsna: The corner land to the left? Left of Gurukula? Or...
Prabhupada: No Gurukula... When we go to the chuni,(?) in front of...
Gopala Krsna: Ha, ha, ha. In that direction.
Prabhupada: Yes. That is agricultural land.
Gopala Krsna: Right opposite...
Prabhupada: Yes.
Hari-sauri: Where that gate is.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Gopala Krsna: Right before the gate. That is... I was under the impression that belonged to some Christian man.
Prabhupada: No, no, no. That is first. After crossing the road, the corner.
Hari-sauri: Where the parikrama path is.
Gopala Krsna: That is available for...?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Gopala Krsna: Actually that would be good if we get that. It's right next to our temple.
Prabhupada: So why not try for that? You can get it, I am sure.
Gopala Krsna: Okay. I'm going to Vrndavana in ten days.
Prabhupada: So if we can get that land, then we can divert our sewer in the land and utilize it for nice agricultural purposes. So instead of spending lakh of rupees for municipality, why not acquire that land?
Gopala Krsna: Acquire or buy? Acquire.
Prabhupada: Acquire means you have to pay, but government...
Gopala Krsna: Yes, but acquire usually takes a long time.
Prabhupada: Not long time. They'll give us, because it is lying vacant.
Gopala Krsna: On the sewage problem in Vrndavana, we'll have to make, do something quickly because even the Gurukula will not be able to open till we can...
Prabhupada: So you can do it immediately. But go on, purchase. It is lying vacant.
Gopala Krsna: Okay, that's a very good idea. But we'll still have to put a pipe underground coming out.
Prabhupada: That is not much, a few you, few yards only. And then introduce it and distribute that water, the whole land, and you will get good agricultural produce, very good. You can have very good business.
Hari-sauri: That can be used for agriculture?
Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. This water is very valuable for agricultural purpose. Nature has made in such a way. Aiye. All rejected water, you can utilize for agriculture.
Hari-sauri: I think in the West they have a law that says you can't use human sewage.
Prabhupada: Kick out the West. We are doing here, in India. The municipality is doing that also in Vrndavana. Everywhere it is. In Calcutta there is called dhapara matha. Dhapara matha, formerly, anything produced in dhapara matha, that was not used for Deity. The superstition that "These vegetables are grown in filthy water, nasty..." But the vegetables were-cauliflower so big, so big. Everything, very luxuriantly, very tasteful and solid and big... Dhapara mathera (Bengali). They used to take. In Bengal, generally, the land is very fertile to produce vegetables. But this, the more the filthy things of the city were thrown there, and the cultivator used to grow very nice... That is utilization of this filthy water where there was sewer ditches formerly. In the village they diverted from the water in the field, and they got good crops. Generally they pass stool in the field. The cow's, cow dung and man's stool and everyone's stool, they are wrapped gathered together in the rainy season. It became fertile. (Hindi)
Gopala Krsna: We will try for the land.
Prabhupada: Immediately. That is... That will be proper utilization. And in the court, unless they arrange for this dirty water out, why shall I pay tax? We shall stick to this position.
Gopala Krsna: We are sticking to it. The only harm to us is our Gurukula is going to get delayed now, the opening.
Prabhupada: But in the meantime you...
Gopala Krsna: Yes. And also we are running out of time because we can't let water accumulate the way it is.
Prabhupada: So why you can't? We have purchased that land. They have to...
Gopala Krsna: Yes, that is... We'll try for that now.
Prabhupada: Yes. That means... We have purchased that land. By force you can drive out? We are trying for that. Go to the court: "We have regularly purchased that land. What can be done? The municipality is not doing anything." We have to fight like that.
Gopala Krsna: Yes, we are fighting.
Prabhupada: Why you should be afraid?
Gopala Krsna: No. I mean the water... We're having all the trouble with the man in the back.
Prabhupada: That I am speaking, that he's trouble. Why he should be giving us trouble? We purchased it. Take land; take money. And we have to purchase the land for this purpose. We are doing other arrangement; that is our mercy. But even that land... The municipality is obliged. Otherwise we can throw the water on the street. That is municipal's duty. Otherwise why shall I pay tax? We shall do everything, we shall pay tax, and we shall suffer? What is this?
Gopala Krsna: We're not paying tax. We are fighting it in the court.
Prabhupada: So in this way we have to fight. We should not be afraid for these rascals. Why you should be afraid? If they take to gunda-ism, we shall engage fifty gundas. "Come on. Let us see." We have to maintain that spirit. Anaye yei kare prabhu anaye yei sahe.(?) The Rabindranath Tagore's one poetry: "One who does wrong and suffers wrong, he is wrong." One should not do anything wrong; one should not suffer anything wrong. That is human. If somebody does harm to me, wrong to me, I cannot suffer it. I shall not do any harm to anyone. That's all right. But if you want to give me suffering, I must fight you. Why shall I suffer it? That is ksatriya spirit. Yuddhe capy apalayanam. "If you are challenging, 'All right, come on,' I accept this challenge." We have to do like that. Now, this baniya spirit... Our Bhagatji, he purchased that land, and he's afraid of him. What is this? Baniya spirit. But you are ksatriya.
Gopala Krsna: He has to... I'm not there all the time. They come to his house to...
Prabhupada: No, you argue with weapon. Beat them. We shall see. Go to the police that "This is nonsense."
Gopala Krsna: Yeah, we've done that.
Prabhupada: So how is that?
Gopala Krsna: At the present moment he's okay; he's quiet.
Prabhupada: No, we should beat them. If somebody, atatayi...(?) You unnecessarily attack me; I must first kill you. That is my duty. Just like you have done here, Setterji. "I'll bring my revolver." So that is argumentum baculum. Here they wanted to put us into trouble, and he was in great trouble. So he came, he stood: "All right, come on. We shall fight. Bring my revolver." He did that. So we have to do like that. Why shall I tolerate unnecessary injustice. Take that spirit. And in meantime apply. That is the solution. Why shall I spend for them? And unless they arrange for the sewer lines, we're not going to pay tax.
Gopala Krsna: No, that's our position.
Prabhupada: Let us go on, one court after another, one court after... If there is fight, we must be prepared to fight. (Hindi) If required, take Setterji. He'll help.
Setterji: Giriraja.
Giriraja: He's very heroic. He was very heroic.
Prabhupada: Yes. He is ksatriya. (Hindi) You take him.
Gopala Krsna: Okay.
Setterji: In the Pakistan time, I fight forty, fifty men.
Prabhupada: Yes. That is ksatriya spirit. If you want to fight...
Setterji: Yes, always.
Prabhupada: You killed?
Setterji: Yes! So many times.
Prabhupada: So you have got experience. Huh?
Setterji: Sometimes I have walked on the dead body.
Prabhupada: Accha. So many dead bodies.
Setterji: I have seen about four men at the Pathan border, and the... One, this Korabhari, this tanga, Victoria,(?) came with six Muslims. And they challenged us. Very... "We will kill you." We said, "Yes, come. You kill us; we will kill you. We fight." We were ready at that time because revolver was there and the Kurari Kundasa was there. One, my friend, he was from Gujawala(?). He showed this Kundasa, and his head cut out, and he was running...
Prabhupada: Accha. Still running?
Setterji: Running! In Mahabharata(?) I was heard that body was running. But actually I have seen at that time. Head was cut and the body was running.
Prabhupada: Just see. (laughter) And then he fell down.
Setterji: Then he fell down. And of that, the other men went.
Prabhupada: That, how he was running with his mind, just see.
Gopala Krsna: With his mind.
Hari-sauri: The mind is in the heart.
Setterji: And we have saved all the fellows because...
Prabhupada: That, these rascals, they do not know...
Setterji: Because if they first, they put us, then our men will do it. So we do first.
Prabhupada: Killing.
Setterji: Yes. And the one man get out from the tanga, who first cut out his head. Then... And all the others ran out. (Hindi)
Prabhupada: (Hindi) Yes. (Hindi) Actually. It was also very disastrous.
Setterji: To fight... When fight is there, then...
Prabhupada: That is also Krsna conscious. You see how many demons are killed by Krsna.
Setterji: "Come on." You challenge. You see? I've declared. If they challenge us I am ready, "Come on." At the temple I challenged, "Come on! And you are 150. We don't be afraid."
Prabhupada: So... (Hindi) You have lost your ksatriya spirit.
Gopala Krsna: Having Setterji with us... When he has (?) relax for few days, rest for few days.
Prabhupada: Huh? If you have lost your ksatriya spirit, then take him.
Setterji: When he came with that barrister to give you to notice... (Hindi)
Prabhupada: (Hindi)... Mantrer(?) was so against, that "We must stop this." Yes. I heard from that doctor that he was insulted by Seti, "Either Seti should go..." Like that, he has repeated me. He gave me hint that Seti... (Hindi) And you know that. The doctor, what is that doctor? He suggested. He's Mantrer's(?) man. Yes. Yes.
Setterji: He was also play the game in the land, that...
Prabhupada: He gave hint that "Give Mantrer two lakhs of rupees." Yes. He was canvasser on behalf of Mantrer. He wanted two lakhs.
Setterji: Which we'll not give you a single paisa. We will fight to you. "Come on."
Prabhupada: So I think you make this point. But best thing is that if you can acquire that land, that is the best solution. We can utilize that land?
Gopala Krsna: Yes, for agriculture. That's very good.
Prabhupada: It is just in the corner.
Gopala Krsna: We can have a small gosala there also.
Prabhupada: Anything we can do.
Setterji: Guruji, one night at the Pakistan front we stay in one place, and forty, fifty men came there, Kuraris and Kundasas. And another fellow which was with me, he was asked to be one of them. So when they came we recognized and we were ready with the revolvers and... The men came and they want to kill us, and we shoot them, five men dead, that time, and the rest ran away. And I took my child, this Brijmohan. He was five days old only. And I took my wife on the back...
Prabhupada: Five days?
Setterji: Five days. And I took my wife on the back and child in my hand, and the way was so difficult, and the darkness. And then we... Six miles...
Prabhupada: What about your other children and daughters?
Setterji: They were also with us.
Prabhupada: But they were grown up.
Setterji: My father took my..., that child who was one year old.
Prabhupada: Oh, father, mother, everyone, whole family. Then how trial they had.
Setterji: Six miles from there, and then we got a...
Gopala Krsna: A lot of these Punjabis had to go through this. During the Partition a lot of Punjabis had to face the fight and killing them off.
Prabhupada: No, in Bengal also there was fight.
Setterji: Huh? First Bengal? Was in Punjab.(?)
Prabhupada: Noakali there was great fight.
Setterji: After this war I cannot slept six months perfectly.
Prabhupada: Mind was so disturbed.
Setterji: Because these, that scenes, came always...
Prabhupada: Oh, yes. In vision.
Setterji: ...in dreams that "We were fighting; we were killing, they are killing; we are killing."
Prabhupada: Just see how much struggle.
Setterji: Sometimes we wake up fighting, fighting.
Prabhupada: I had such experience. I had some experience in my childhood in 1911. I was thirteen years old. There was a riot. So our house was there in Mahatma Gandhi Road, and all sides Muhammadans. We are simply... The Mulliks and our house are simply some respectable men. Otherwise it was surrounded (surrendered?) by... That is called Kwalabala and Bastik, all Muhammadans, backside fully Muhammadans. So the riot was there, and I went to play. There is a square, Marker(?) Square. So I did not know the riot has taken place. I was coming home. So one of my class friends said that "You do not go to your house. That side is rioting now." So because we are in the Muhammadan quarter, this fighting between two parties, that was going on. It is usual. So I thought it may be like that, that two gundas are fighting. I have seen. One gunda is stabbing the other gunda. I have seen. And they are pickpockets. When you are passing they would... I have seen, he is pickpocketing. (laughter) And they were our neighbor men. So I thought "It must be like that. This is going on." But when I came the crossing of Mahatma Gandhi... At that time Harrison Road it was. Harrison Road and Holi..., Holiday, Halliday Street, yes. So one shop was being plundered. Putamat putamat putamat..." So I was child, a boy. I became... "What is this happening?" In the meantime all, my father, mother, members: "Oh, the child has not come." They became so mad, they came out of home expecting, "Wherefrom the child will come?" So what could I do? When I saw, then I began to run towards our house, and one Muhammadan, he wanted to kill me. He took his lathi and actually... But I passed through some way or other. I was saved. So as soon as I came before our gate they got their life. So without speaking anything I went to the bedroom, and it was in the month of... It is winter. So I... Without saying anything I laid down, wrapping myself with quilt. So that time I was rising: "Is it ended? The riot is ended?" I was asking. I remember. So I would have been killed in that riot. So I have got experience of this riot. That is the first riot in Calcutta, in 1911.
Gopala Krsna: We haven't had any such experience.
Setterji: I was passing on my car after Pakistan from Laul(?) and they put bomb, hand grenade, and the back glass broken, but we...
Prabhupada: Saved. Krsna saved. Unless Krsna saves, who can? So I had the experience of riot in Calcutta in my childhood.
Setterji: (Hindi)
Prabhupada: At any moment.
Setterji: "Who are afraid from death? Come on!" challenging... (Hindi)
Prabhupada: (Hindi) Soldiers, they forget that "We have to die." They fight for... That is another madness. In Hindi it is called kunchariya.(?)
Setterji: Kunchariya. (Hindi) That is... Ah.
Prabhupada: Soldiers they do that. It is unnaturally he becomes. They become mad after killing. (Hindi) ...ksatriya spirit. They must be trained up ksatriyas. If he is baniya, he cannot do it.
Setterji: (Hindi) ...who have challenged us. So "Come on."
Prabhupada: (laughs) So you are real husband. You gave protection to your wife.
Indian lady: (Hindi) (Hindi conversation for few sentences)
Prabhupada: Can you make one capati?
Hari-sauri: I should make it, or Palika or...?
Prabhupada: Yes, Palika. [break] ...business, that requires so many other things. But if you take to agriculture you can do it immediately. Krsi-go-raksya. That... We are going to do that. Krsi... This is beginning, family life, maintenance, body and soul together. This is the beginning. Business is there when there is excess. Krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam [Bg. 18.44]. First of all you take care of the cows and engage yourself in agricultural products. Then when there is excess production, you trade, get some money for other purposes. But you... Agriculture means you work for producing food. That is wanted. Why immediately go to trade? Trade is required when there is excess product. Everything is there. Krsi-go-raksya. And the krsi you can produce independently. You simply work. You have got your hands and legs. You till the ground and throw some seed, and it will come. One kilo seeds, you'll get one hundred mounds. Then, when the product is excess, you trade. Everything is there. If you produce food grain, you'll eat nicely and you'll be strong. You'll be able to work more. Our point is take Krsna's instruction. Everything will be perfect. Not that Krsna is advising immediately sarva-dharman parityajya [Bg. 18.66]. For that stage you are not prepared. That I know. But in your present stage what you'll do, that is perfect.
Giriraja: You mean I should leave everything and start a farm?
Prabhupada: Where is the question of leaving? Agriculture... You take to agriculturethat means you leave everything?
Giriraja: Well, what I have now.
Prabhupada: And what you have got? You are asking that "I require now food." That means you have nothing. You have no food even. (aside:) Oh, you have brought it very quickly. Very nice. All right. [break] Live very comfortably, eat very comfortably and work. Chant Hare Krsna. Simply wasting time, the civilization... srama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]. Working hard and wasting valuable time of... Misguided. Andha yathandhair upaniya... When I think of their position... So every Vaisnava should be para-duhkha-duhkhi. So you like it?
Hari-sauri: For thirty paisa it's very good. For the price it's very good.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Gopala Krsna: Oh, it's very good in other ways, full color. We're going to sell it for a rupee, and...
Prabhupada: Krpambudhir yas tam aham prapadye [Cc. Madhya 6.254]. The unhappy for the unhappiness of others. They love them, unhappy without Krsna consciousness. This is a fact. The rascal may agree or not agree. That's a fact. Ghostly haunted.
Gopala Krsna: Jaya, Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: Jaya. [break] Where is this temple? London? No.
Hari-sauri: Which one? Oh, that's the German castle. Schloss Rettershof.
Prabhupada: Oh, France.
Hari-sauri: German.
Prabhupada: Oh, yes, yes. I think it is rightly done.
Hari-sauri: For mass distribution it's very good, for mass distribution. How many copies he's...
Prabhupada: One lakh. (end)

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