Room Conversation – April 5, 1977, Bombay

When one is distressed, artah, if he is pious then he comes to Krsna

Prabhupada: Is it? Dictionary? Harvard Original Series.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Oriental Series.

Prabhupada: Oriental Series.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Vedic Concordance. All the slokas of Veda are listed according to alphabetical order for reference, and it is mentioned where they are occurring.

Prabhupada: Find out janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1].

Gopala Krsna: It is in the indexes. It is according to alphabetically arranged.

Prabhupada: They have so much respect for Sanskrit language.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, there are about ten, fifteen volumes of it like this. Sanskrit dictionary.

Prabhupada: That means they have got respect.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, they are learning from it actually. They are doing all the research and everything.

Gopala Krsna: I read in the paper there is going to be a world Sanskrit meeting in Paris soon.

Prabhupada: Our books are selling due to the Sanskrit scholarship.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Yes, Sanskrit scholarship.

Prabhupada: Word-to-word meaning.

Tamala Krsna: It doesn't appear to be in alphabetical order. I mean, look.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: This is I, so you have to go to J.

Tamala Krsna: Well it's not in alphabetical order.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, it is according to Sanskrit order.

Bhakti-caru: It will be later than that.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Can you find it?

Gopala Krsna: Srila Prabhupada, the Hindi Bhagavatam has been very appreciated, after the lamentation [lamination] that plastic coating we have put, it looks better. Actually the presentation is even better than the Spanish Bhagavatams. I got some new, even improved binding, bound books today. I'll send them to you tonight or tomorrow. They look very first class. I am sending Prem Yogi back to Vrndavana tomorrow, because First Canto, Part Two, is almost composed. So it requires to be proofread before I bring it to Bombay for printing. So the work is just being delayed. And also there is just one week's work left on First Canto, Part Three. So I told him to go back to Vrndavana for two weeks, and if you go to Srinagar, I promised him I will send him to Srinagar, because he wants to go to a cold climate. Then after that...

Prabhupada: Yes. If I go I will call him.

Gopala Krsna: Yeah. So this way he was encouraged, because he wants...

Prabhupada: There was another place, Solan.

Gopala Krsna: Solan, yes. It is near Shimla.

Prabhupada: Yes. Somebody wanted to give us that place.

Gopala Krsna: Yes. Near Chandigarh.

Prabhupada: So why not take that place?

Gopala Krsna: Our only problem was we didn't have men to keep there on a permanent basis.

Prabhupada: If he wants, he can go.

Gopala Krsna: That's a good idea. I can meet them in Delhi. I know those people.

Prabhupada: Then do that.

Gopala Krsna: Yeah. I met that svami who wanted to give...

Prabhupada: Yes. He does not speak.

Gopala Krsna: Yes, he writes.

Prabhupada: So let us occupy that place.

Gopala Krsna: And now that Trivikrama Swami is operating in Punjab with his party, it is good, because he can go there sometimes also.

Prabhupada: So take that place.

Gopala Krsna: Yes, now we will take it. It's a very good idea. So it is okay if we send him back. I want to get the First Canto, Part Two...

Prabhupada: And as soon as we go to Srinagar I shall call.

Gopala Krsna: Yeah. Very good.

Prabhupada: From Delhi to Srinagar...

Gopala Krsna: It's not far. This evening Giriraja and myself saw Jaya Prakash Narayan in his hospital. I gave him your Hindi Bhagavatam and Krsna Conscious Cultural Movement and your Gita Giriraja gave. He liked it very much. He inquired how much Bhagavatam you have translated. He inquired where our temple is. We said Juhu. He said he would come here. Of course, he is very, very sick. And I asked him for an appointment that we could come and show him our movie. And he has agreed to even see our movie. So in one or two days we will show him the movie in the morning. And in the evening there were hundreds of people, so we only saw him for three or four minutes. He has agreed to see us again. And he wants to meet you, he said. So when he is okay he will come to see you.

Prabhupada: Giriraja said that the Prime Minister also.

Gopala Krsna: Yes, that's Morarji Desai. That Ratansinh Rajda had said that. Morarji Desai told Ratansinh Rajda. Jaya Prakash Narayan is the most important man in the country now. He is like Mahatma Gandhi.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: He is Mahatma Gandhi's second man, father of the nation.

Gopala Krsna: We saw him just now, Giriraja and myself. He was very favorable, Srila Prabhupada, and we showed him your books.

Prabhupada: He knows about our movement?

Gopala Krsna: Yes, I asked him first thing if he has heard. He said yes. And we gave him a copy of that Krsna Consciousness is Genuine Indian Culture, which shows all our cultural activities; your Gita. He said this book looks is very expensive, but we said we shall like you to read it. And we mentioned that your desire is that the leaders of this country become God conscious and then everybody else will become God conscious. And I gave example of Maharaja Yudhisthira. He looked very spiritual to us. He was very friendly. I was amazed that a man who has such...

Prabhupada: He is patriot indoubtedly. He has no selfish motives.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No self-motives.

Gopala Krsna: He is very sick, so he said, "Now this is with me for the rest of my life unless some spiritual sadhu does some magic." So I could see that he is, because of this illness, he has probably become more spiritual now, which is also Krsna's arrangement.

When one is distressed, artah, if he is pious then he comes to Krsna. If he is pious. Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg 7.15]. Those who are not pious, they will never come.

Gopala Krsna: So our goal is next time we'll see him again, show him the movie, and then try and get a letter of introduction from him to Morarji Desai and the Home Minister, because if he gives a letter, then nobody will say no to anything.

Prabhupada: No, no. Why letter?

Tamala Krsna: Morarji Desai has already said that he wants to see Prabhupada.

Gopala Krsna: Yeah, or the Home Minister.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Everybody will come now.

Prabhupada: If Morarji Desai comes, others will do.

Gopala Krsna: That's good.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: And because of the Russian order and American work, he will be also very much pleased. Everybody was clapping at that pandal on Sunday. When Giriraja read about the order, the whole audience started clapping. Then Russia is defeated by purchasing the books. It is the final thing. He doesn't require any special recommendation.

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. "Srila Prabhupada, only slokas from the Vedas are here, not from Bhagavatam."]

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Oh. Even Upanisad is also not there?

Bhakti-caru: No.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Only pure Vedas are there.

Bhakti-caru: Atharva, Rg, Rg veda, Samaveda... Rg, Sama, Yajur, Atharva.

Prabhupada: Only the Veda. Only the students for four Vedas.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, if it is a school, I can give it here in the library for research, because this will be a useful thing. They are not easily available. It was published in '64. Originally it was published in 1906. After sixty years they are brought out the cheaper copy, cheaper edition by American collaboration. America has given the money. Therefore it is only costing forty rupees.

Bhakti-caru: Are those printed here?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Printed here. Banarsidass, Lucknow or Kanpur. These are the Motilal Banarsidass-Delhi, Varanasi and Lucknow. And money was given by America.

Gopala Krsna: We read in the papers today that there is talk that Sanjay Gandhi and his mother may run from the country, because the government has launched many investigations into the malpractices of Sanjay Gandhi. So the government has ordered the security on all the borders to be very tight.

Tamala Krsna: All the airports now, they are making special security, especially to check any politicians who might try to escape the country, due to being investigated.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Their passports are also taken away. That's what I have heard.

Tamala Krsna: They were, in themselves, the most exalted, and now they are treated as criminals.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Material nature.

Gopala Krsna: In the Times of India you saw that starlight or side light or something, about Indira Gandhi. In today's paper, Indira Gandhi had gone to attend the function at one of the African embassies. She went with her daughter-in-law, and nobody even noticed her. Only fifteen minutes after she left the function did the host realize that Indira Gandhi had come. I mean, she went to a party, she stayed there and she left, and the host did not know that "Indira Gandhi is here." It shows how material nature changes.

Tamala Krsna: It also shows that actually she had no value, because one who is actually great doesn't lose his value simply by losing an election.

Prabhupada: vidvan sarvatra pujyate. vidvattvam ca nrpatam ca naiva tulyam kadacana or a king and a learned person can never be compared, because, a king is honoured in his own country whereas a learned person is honoured everywhere. [Canakya Pandita]

She is not a learned man. She occupied the royal seat. That honor was so long there, the royal seat. And who will honor her?

Tamala Krsna: Her rule was "Might makes right."

Prabhupada: And had she been a vidvan, she would have been honored everywhere.

Sarvatra means everywhere, without any condition. Just see how she is suffering now mental agony.

Katikeya Mahadevia: Mental agony.

Gopala Krsna: Her son has started growing a beard now also.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: To hide.

Gopala Krsna: He had to... He has grown a beard now.

Tamala Krsna: Why?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: To hide from people.

Gopala Krsna: Probably not to be identified easily.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Disguise.

Gopala Krsna: It came in the papers that the government was giving contracts to his son's businesses, and he was taking commission and keeping them in foreign banks. And they were giving contracts to her son's businesses at a higher rate than the market. There was open tender, and even though his rates were higher, he was still getting the contracts. And he was getting 21% commission from these companies and keeping them abroad. So it just shows how corrupt these leaders are.

Tamala Krsna: Thieves.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, they have taken hundred crores of rupees from State Bank of India.

Gopala Krsna: Sixty lakhs.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, hundred crores in one day after election. Hundred crores of rupees taken from State Bank, and there is a big inquiry about that.

Gopala Krsna: After which? This election?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Yes, yes.

Tamala Krsna: Hundred crores!

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Congress Party has taken out.

Gopala Krsna: Who took that? Withdrawn from the bank.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: State Bank, the biggest bank in India.

Bhakti-caru: Yes.

Gopala Krsna: They have drawn it from the bank?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Yes. Yes.

Prabhupada: How State Bank gave them?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: That is a whole new inquiry. Last time it was fifty-six.

Tamala Krsna: Hundred crores!

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Yes. It is the talk of the town actually. It has come in the newspaper.

Gopala Krsna: It has come in the newspaper?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Yes. Yes. there are so many separate… not in Times of India or not the Express. I will give you the cutting also. Everything is coming out.

Gopala Krsna: They had lakhs money or something in the bank.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: So they had collected money for the election purpose. They have put in the State Bank for Congress money under some account.

Prabhupada: They credited the account?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Yes.

Prabhupada: State Bank has not given out of...?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No.

Prabhupada: What money they have taken?

Tamala Krsna: Their own money. Of course, "their own" means...

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, only they collected from this Muffatlal and [indistinct], and other people.

Prabhupada: Whatever that State Bank kept that money and gave that. So there is no fault of the State Bank. State Bank has no fault.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, but they can't give so much money in one day to the party. Particularly after the election debacle. That money will go out of India and transfer into foreign funds. Because there are all brokers here. Suppose you have got hundred rupees. You can exchange pounds and get it in London. Anybody can do it. So this money was used for that purpose. If it was known that elections are lost and this money will not be utilized in India, they would not have given.

Gopala Krsna: America gave a lot of money to the Congress Party, because Sanjay Gandhi was very friendly with America, with agent of many American companies.

Prabhupada: The America was against Indira?

Gopala Krsna: No. In the last one year they had changed, because of Sanjay. One good thing about Sanjay Gandhi was he was completely anti-Communist. He was pro-American and pro cap-free society. So India's relation with Russia was getting loose and with America was getting tight, because of Sanjay Gandhi. So that was one good thing. [pause]

Prabhupada: Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. What is the goal of life, they do not know. Svartha-gatim. Everyone says, "I must see first of all my self-interest." But he does not know what is self-interest. That is not unnatural. If I say that "I must see first of all myself," you cannot blame, because everyone does that. But you must know what is your svartha-gatim. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum. So it is in paper published that they have been forbidden to go out?

Gopala Krsna: Yes, in today's evening news, that all the borders have been warned to be very careful.

Prabhupada: The other son is already outside India?

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, he is out of politics. He is a wise man. He has not entered politics at all. Sanjiv.

Gopala Krsna: He is a pilot with Indian Airlines. He, I have never heard anything.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: He never heard about any politics or anything. He is just like an ordinary citizen.

Gopala Krsna: They say he is not as smart as Sanjay. That means he is not as crooked. So he is out of politics.

Bhakti-caru: He runs a hotel or something.

Gopala Krsna: No.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: They have got. He is not living there.

Gopala Krsna: He is a pilot with Indian Airlines.

Prabhupada: That is honest life. Earn your livelihood. Who is the elder?

Gopala Krsna: This pilot, Sanjiv. I got a letter from Vrinda De today. He says we are getting very good inquiries from our newspaper advertisement. I am producing a special catalog, which we are going to give to everyone who writes and which is going to be cheap, because the American catalog is very expensive. So he is asking...

Prabhupada: We wanted some.

Tamala Krsna: Prabhupada said he wanted some hundred copies.

Gopala Krsna: Yeah, those were the American. But now we are doing the Indian version, which is costing us 30 paisa each. So that we can give away to anyone who writes in. So I am going to send them. But he says many inquiries are pouring in. And when I was in Calcutta three weeks ago I saw him in his office. He showed me letters. They are coming from all over east India, from Orissa, from Cuttack, about our books. During the month of March, BBT India distributed over about fifty thousand pieces of books and magazines to the temples, libraries, everything included. Fifty thousand pieces of books.

Prabhupada: I have asked already Tamala Krsna. Can you give me a statement of the account?

Gopala Krsna: Yes. It's ready.

Tamala Krsna: He is supposed to be bringing it to me tomorrow morning.

Gopala Krsna: Yeah. It is being typed. It is all ready. I am showing you a complete statement of all the paper purchased, how it is used, a complete statement of every book printed in India, where it is distributed, what the balance is; complete inventory report, how much stock we have in hand, and books distributed in the month of March. We are producing these reports every month now. Everything. All the records are there. And actually...

Prabhupada: No, but that bank manager wanted to come?

Tamala Krsna: He came, but I only got back by four-thirty, and he said he would come again at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning.

Gopala Krsna: Indian Overseas?

Tamala Krsna: No, State Bank.

Gopala Krsna: I was reading, going through my mail. State Bank had written to me earlier. They are also applying for an extension counter, and we want a full bank, because they were seeing me before, their manager here.

Tamala Krsna: Prabhupada said that if they are willing to pay the rent, even if in the beginning it is only an extension counter, that's not so bad.

Gopala Krsna: Like Indian Overseas, I gave them a rate of Rs. 4.50 per square foot, but the market rate was 4.

Prabhupada: They are also ready to...

Giriraja: Yes, because that's the rate I established. We checked the market rate. Plus we want them to give six months of rent in advance, plus we want another benefit from them. I was recently in Hyderabad, and I saw an advertisement in the Hindu paper of Madras by a temple which advertised the deity of the temple and said you can make a donation, and you can make a donation at any of the branches of the Indian bank, Bank of Madras. So one of the things I have been talking to these banks is when we open a Bombay temple we would like to try this approach here, advertise our Deities, have a small story about the Deities, and say anyone who wants to make a donation can make it at any branch of State Bank of India without any charge. And then the bank must agree to give us this service, collect the money and remit to us. So with the banks who have been coming, I have been asking them...

Prabhupada: They will deposit in Bombay.

Gopala Krsna: Yes, any branch. Like this is more attractive, because a branch may be close to their house. They just go in and say, "Take this ten rupees and give to Radha-Rasavihari temple in Juhu." So the bank... I spoke to three banks. They agreed. So this condition also they must agree, because this will be a very novel way of getting donation in Bombay area. They do this in the South.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: For Tirupati Balaji.

Gopala Krsna: Yeah. I cut that advertisement. I was very attracted when I saw it. Do you think it is a good idea?

Prabhupada: Hmm. Go to...

Devotees: Jaya, Srila Prabhupada. [break]

Kartikeya Mahadevia: ...slowly about this Life Membership program is there. I am trying to liquidate my assets in Ahmedabad because all this my dead father, dead mother, brother, all the properties are locked up. So when that is free, I'll take up this property here.

Prabhupada: Yes. Chant Hare Krsna.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: That I am doing at home.

Prabhupada: No, I mean to say that we are inviting, people may come, live peacefully and chant Hare Krsna. This is an attempt. Otherwise, we could have built some apartment house... [break] ...the J.P.?

Gopala Krsna: Jaya Prakash Narayan.

Prabhupada: Jaya Prakash Narayan. Even in old days they were dealing with this politics. What they will do good to the people? But they do not know. This is disease. They do not study the whole history of the world: What Gandhi has done? What Hitler has done? What Napoleon has done? And what they will do? But they are applauded: "He is promising within one year poverty will be driven away." All false propaganda. Ahaṅkara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate [Bg 3.27]. Vimudhatma. Rascals. They are promising so many things. They will never be able to do anything. And they are applauded.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: I think they should be invited here to see what is being done.

Prabhupada: No, they know it. Study the whole history of the world. What the big, big leaders have done? They are not new leaders. Before them, all over the world there were big, big leaders. Napoleon promised so many things. At last, he had to drink horse's urine and die. When he was captured by the Englishmen he wanted water, and he was given horse urine. Ambition, ""I shall make my France, the most important state." The Britishers, so many-Gladstone, Churchill, Lloyd George, British Empire-what they have done? Where is Britishers? Indira made plan, Nehru family will be ministers. Now what is this her position? So they studying history, a still, they are broken. Mudha.

Tamala Krsna: But the great saintly persons, their works have done good for generations in thousands of years.

Prabhupada: Imam rajarsayo viduh [Bg 4.2]. Become rajarsi; try to understand what Krsna says. That's all. Duskrtinah mudhah. They will manufacture. Morarji Desai, he promised within ten years. Whether he will live ten years? He is already eighty. So this is the time for promising? This is the time for retiring, for understanding Krsna. No. This man is rotting in the hospital, he's promising so many things.

Tamala Krsna: I think you advised Gandhi that he should retire.

Prabhupada: Yes, I advised Gandhi that he should retire. He never retired. That's all right. And our program is there, chalked out. pancasordhvam vanam vrajet or after the age of fifty one should retire and go to the forest. You show your all nonsense ability up to fifty years. Don't go more than that. Because you are rascal, you will never be able to do anything, but jump like monkey up to fifty years, not more than that. Monkey jumping may be continued up to fifty years. Then retire. They will continue monkey jumping up to the last point of death.

Tamala Krsna: And then he'll jump into the grave.

Prabhupada: That's all. And then go to hell. Tatha dehantara-praptih [Bg 2.13]. So after jumping, when this body is finished, he is going to accept another body offered by nature. Karanam guna-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-janma-yonisu [Bg 13.22]. Rascals, they do not know how nature is working. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani [Bg 3.27]. Making plan and wasting time, wasting their valuable life. At least, this institution which we have started to give this enlightenment, they must be maintained in India in a first-class standard, that at least some intelligent persons can take advantage. They are all fools, rascals. They cannot take. Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah. [Bg 7.15]

That is already described. Naradhamas will not take to Krsna consciousness. But there are persons who are not naradhama. For them there must be. Diamond shop is not for everyone, but there are some persons who can purchase diamonds. Manusyanam sahasresu [Bg 7.3]. It is not meant for everyone. So this is India's culture. At least, these men should be conscientious, that "Let this Bhagavad-gita culture be maintained in pure form." There is cultural department, government. They are sending dancing party. You see? Real culture. And to make show they will pose themselves a great student of Bhagavad-gita. So we are making alone a little, teeny effort, but it is being appreciated all over the world. That is our encouragement. Our books, our philosophy, our religion, America has accepted: "Yes, it is Indian philosophy." It is not sentiment.

Tamala Krsna: Everyone has seen that. The bank manager at Central Bank today said that "I saw your movement is now respected as genuine religion." Everyone is aware of...

Prabhupada: Yes. It is genuine. It is genuine.

Gopala Krsna: This court case turned out to be a blessing. You had said that earlier, not to worry.

Tamala Krsna: Prabhupada wanted us to push it on for fourteen years.

Gopala Krsna: The court case?

Tamala Krsna: Yes.

Prabhupada: Yes. I would not have given up. I would have spent all my assets to fight this case. But Krsna's grace-in one day. Not fourteen days even. This is Krsna. On the first review. Yes. I wanted even fourteen years. Yes. I was prepared: "I will spend all my money." But Krsna is so kind, He wanted: "Take it, this [indistinct]. Finished." This is Krsna. Krsna is wonderful. I have written one chapter...

Tamala Krsna: "Wonderful Krsna."

Prabhupada: Yes. If simply they appreciate that Krsna is wonderful, their life will be successful. This very simple thing. A child can do it. Krsna is wonderful, there is no doubt. Let them admit only, they will be pushed forward in Krsna consciousness. I'll request only these big, big men that "Maintain this institution to attract intelligent persons from all over the world. And you do all nonsense, whatever you like, but maintain this. And if possible, after retirement come and do practical something." What is this nonsense? Andha yathandhair upa... What he will do? They are promising so many rascal things. What he will do? What you have got? Indira promised so many things. Bluffed. What she can do? Now she is, herself in difficulty.... Te 'pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhah [SB 7.5.31].

Isa-trantryam uru-damni baddhah. They want to do something. What happens? Gandhi, when he started nonviolence, "Within one year." And he dragged for fifty years. Twenty years in Durban and thirty years in India. Could not do anything. If you say that Gandhi could not do anything, people will be angry. But see; study the whole history. What did he do? Did the Britishers care for Gandhi's nonviolent movement? Pat him: "Let this rascal go on with his movement. We'll go on." That was the disagreement with Subhas Bose. Subhas Bose said, "Mahatmaji, they will never go by this nonviolence. You have to take to violence." He said that "I will never have independence, but I will not take it." Therefore he left India. When he organized that INA, and when the Britishers felt the [indistinct], "Now the soldiers have joined," all hopes lost. They did not give up India for Gandhi's nonviolence. [chuckles]

Tamala Krsna: That is what the usual belief is. The usual belief is that it was due to Gandhi's nonviolence.

Prabhupada: Yes, that is said in Hong Kong, somewhere. People were astonished. Nobody said like that. And this is the fact.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Srila Prabhupada, I have small request. I have got a friend who is M.D., and he is doing research in Ayur-veda. He is about eighty-three years old. So I was just wondering whether you would like to meet him some time for consultation.

Prabhupada: Hmm.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: He had done translation of Susruta-samhita from Sanskrit to English in six volumes, and he has established one Ayurvedic college and other things in Jamnagar about thirty years ago. He is a very personal friend of our life member Sanat Mehta and Vasantbhai Mehta, who are expert in income tax. They are handling our income tax matters also. He's a senior partner, about eighty-four years old. So I talked to him today, and he has thought whether you would like to take his advantage of the knowledge of the... personal advice.

Prabhupada: Yes, I can take advantage, but no medicine.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: No, we can have discussion with him. Medicines may not be taken. We can have only consultation, and he is doing out of friendly relation. He does not want money out of you.

Prabhupada: Yes, that's all right.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: He is of your own age. So if you tell me then I can bring him tomorrow, because I am going out on, to Ahmedabad on seventh.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: What is a good time?

Prabhupada: This time.

Tamala Krsna: The afternoon is best.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Hare Krsna.

[Prem Yogi enters]

Prabhupada: Hare Krsna. Jaya. [Transl. Is the work going on nicely?]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Yes.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Hmm. Somebody is ready to give us a piece of land in Solon.]

Gopala Krsna: [Transl. With two rooms.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Two rooms. Solon is a very good place.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. It is on the way to Shimla.]

Prabhupada: Hmm. So I am asking him, he is going to Delhi.

Gopala Krsna: [Transl. I will take you.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. You go there and occupy it. You preach there. I have heard it's a nice place. And if everything goes well then I may come also. And if I go to Kashmir I will call you there.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Okay.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Apart from that you do your work nicely.] You are the right person.

Gopala Krsna: I was telling Prem Yogi that everybody is already asking for First Canto, Part Two. They are saying, "Where is Part Two?" I said it is coming up quickly.

Prabhupada: pranair arthair dhiya vaca sreya-acaranam sada [SB 10.22.35]. This is premamyi jivana or a life of ecstatic love. pranair arthair dhiya vaca. [Transl. Whatever anyone has got, Everyone has got life. If one dedicates his life that means he has given everything. If one cannot give his life then give some wealth. If you have no wealth then offer your intelligence. And if you have no intelligence also then at least offer your words. Whatever you may have got, offer it in the service of the Supreme Lord. Don't just take from Him. stena eva sa ucyate. [Bg 3.12]

One who takes only and does not give anything. yajnarthat karman'nyatra loko'yam karma-bandhanah. [Bg 3.9] We teach "Give, if not everything then whatever you can." sarva dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam braja. [Bg 18.66] This is our program. Give means not give only. The Supreme Lord says

He said explicitly. Start to give away something. That is life. And what does the Supreme Lord want? patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati [Bg 9.26] Is there any difficulty in giving? man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [Bg 18.65] Why people do not understand this philosophy? Making plan for welfare activities. andha yathandhair upaniyamanas te 'pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhah [SB 7.5.31]. uru. [Transl. uru means hard.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. uru means…]

Prabhupada: [Transl. uru also means strong. uru-damni. Strong rope. baddhah or bound. matir na krsne paratah svato va mitho 'bhipadyeta grha-vratanam. [SB 7.5.30] This grhavrata conception, our country, our home, our family, our this, our, our, our.] This is called grhavrata. [Transl. An ordinary man, he says "This is my house. This is my everything." And a big leader says "This is my country." But actually that is also grhavrata mentality.] Expanded grha, and... What is called? It is concentrated...

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Contracted.

Prabhupada: Contracted. Contraction and extraction?

Prem Yogi: Expansion.

Kartikeya Mahadevia: Can I take leave, Srila Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: Give them fruit.

Katikeya Mahadevia: Can I come in the afternoon about 4:30? Tomorrow, 4:30?

[leaves]

Prabhupada: [Transl. From Delhi Solon is not very far.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. I have been there.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Really? Solon?]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Yes. I stayed in Solon. I had been to Shimla also.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. I see.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. I lived there many years. At least four, five years.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Hmm. How is the place?]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. It's a very good place. Very clean. A small place, not so big. It's on the way to Shimla.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Solon?]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Above Chandigarh is Kalka, and above Kalka is Solon. Did you get a place there?]

Prabhupada: [Transl. There lives one devotee who wants to donate his land to us.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Okay.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Is it a good place?]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Yes good. There should be one. Nobody offered anything in Shimla?]

Prabhupada: [Transl. No.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. There should be one in Shimla.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Like that we get many offers, but what we will do with them. Where is man power? What will do with them? Already we have got big, big institutions. We will have to maintain them. By the Supreme Lord's mercy everything is going on nicely.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Hmm. So I go to Vrndavana and start…]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Do the needful. Then he is going to Vrndavana and if our program is confirmed then from Vrndavana to Delhi and from Delhi go ahead.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Okay. That translation of Veda and Krsna Consciousness which Jayadvaita Das took is too long according to him. And he says it should be published in two volumes.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. As they want because they are the Editors.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. But if it is printed in two parts then the essence will be lost, because people forget so easily.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. How is it possible in one volume?]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. One volume can consist of five chapters.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. There are no such learned scholars.]

Prem yogi: [Transl. Who?]

Prabhupada [Transl. As the way you want. Who will understand all these Vedas?]

Prem yogi: [Transl. It is given in very easy way.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Present the essence in an easy manner. Unless there is good brain who can understand? harer nama harer nama harer nama. [ [Brhan-naradiya Purana] This is for Kali-yuga.]

Prem Yogi: [Transl. Yes. At the end He alone is the goal.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. All the big, big scholars, this Vedic reference book has been published from Harward University in 1906, and after sixty years it has been reprinted. Who reads it? Where is that student? mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya hy upadrutah

All are misguided and unfortunate. Where is the brahmana? That is for the brahmanas. Where is that brahmana? All are sudras and lower than the sudras. One must be qualified. We say "Unless one is a brahmana, he is not allowed to study Vedas." That is true. One who has no brahminical qualities, who has not approached an Acarya, how can he study Veda? Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said guru more murkha dekhi karila sasana.

My Guru Maharaja has considered Me a fool and thus chastised "Why do you want to study Vedanta? You are a fool. Just chant the holy name of Hari." This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's order. Was Caitanya Mahaprabhu a fool? This is for us. All fools. ceto darpana marjanam. [Siksastaka 1] harer nama harer nama. Everything will be taken care of by this. Others things should be done also. There is no harm.

Prem Yogi: [Transl. So your instruction was to go to Vrndavana first.]

[break] [Prem Yogi leaves]

Tamala Krsna: He is doing good translations.

Prabhupada: People will appreciate.

Tamala Krsna: They are. He is scholarly.

Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Scholar. Doctor. Philosopher.

Tamala Krsna: Is he actually a doctor?

Prabhupada: Hmm.

Tamala Krsna: We couldn't get to the Kashmir tourist office today.

Prabhupada: Hmm. Never mind.

Tamala Krsna: That place is not too high altitude? Someone told us that he was in Kashmir at eleven thousand feet altitude. That boy who was driving us today, he was there last year.

Prabhupada: That is crossing. But...

Bhavananda: The valleys.

Prabhupada: ...the real Kashmir is the valleys. Five thousand.

Bhavananda: Gargamuni says in those valleys it is very hot.

Tamala Krsna: He was there?

Bhavananda: He was either in Kashmir or right next to it, same area, Siligudhi, Shimla or someplace.

Tamala Krsna: Shimla, yeah. He was in Shimla.

Bhavananda: Very hot.

Prabhupada: No, Shimla is not hot. This Srinagar is not hot. I know that. I went there. I know, when I crossed, there was snow on the road. So when Gurudasa will send his report?

Tamala Krsna: As soon as he meets Dr. Karan Singh. I told him to make detailed arrangements and give detailed report. You are eager to go there, I think.

Prabhupada: Hmm?

Tamala Krsna: You are a litle bit ea...

Prabhupada: Not very eager. I was eager only that if I simply get regular appetite, then the..., I can get some strength to work, that's all. So ask them to give me little orange.

Bhavananda: Our only concern is that in the traveling to get to a place where you may get some strength-may not-that you will lose strength in the traveling. Without a guarantee.

Prabhupada: Yes. That's a fact.

Bhavananda: You would like some orange, Srila Prabhupada? Anything else?

Prabhupada: A little salt.

Tamala Krsna: Having Bhavananda around is...

[break]

Prabhupada: [telling story] "You have taken my watch?" "Yes." "So bring it." "No." [laughter] "All right then. I am going to hand over to police." "Very good." "Yes, No, Very good." And the police came. So he was going to arrest him. He was astonished. [laughter] [break] [end]