Meeting with Godbrothers in Bengali – March 6, 1976, Māyāpur
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760306ME.MAY
Meeting with Godbrothers
in Bengali - March 6, 1976, Mayapur 760306ME-Mayapur-Bengali [16:16 Minutes]
Pusta Krsna: [announcing:] Prabhupada goes to the Caitanya Math in Mayapur in the morning of March 6th, 1976. Speaking with his Godbrothers there.
Godbrother: [Transl. Should there be little kirtan?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Hmm. Give them mrdahga and karatala and let them do some kirtan.]
Godbrother: [Transl. May be we can go over there so that they can do kirtan and circumambulate.] [indistinct]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Give them mrdahga and karatala and they…]
Godbrother: [Transl. … take them for darsana. Take them to Prabhupada's Samadhi mandir for darsana.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. [indistinct] Walking. No, no problem for walking.]
Godbrother: [indistinct]
Prabhupada: [Transl. We have served together in the Back to Godhead. You are a…]
Godbrother: [Transl. Yes. To work combinedly requires huge learning.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. That literary work…You have given it up now. Why don't you start it again?]
Godbrother: [Transl. I can't see anything with my eyes any more.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. There is no need to see. Nowadays they have got machines. Just you have to hear and check it. Your ears are all right, no?]
Godbrother: [Transl. Yes.
Prabhupada: [Transl. That's all right. There is so much work to do. Literary work. Solid work.]
Godbrother: [Transl. I still do it but in a small scale. That's my only service.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. I always had a desire to publish Back to Godhead magazine with colourful pictures. I think you have seen it the other day. Now I wish to publish something like that in Bengali. Whatever we are publishing here that is in Hindi paper. If we use good quality paper and good quality printing and present to educated people…I want to bring out a quality magazine. But I have no man power.]
Godbrother: [Transl. No man power? So many people!]
Prabhupada: [Transl. They are all foreigners. English speaking people cannot understand all this. I have got many foreigners.]
Godbrother: [Transl. They cannot read this. All your books are in English.]
Godbrother 2: [Transl. Most of the literatures are in Bengali.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Yes, in English we have got. Many other languages like German….]
Godbrother: [Transl. Hindi, English and Bengali are prominent in India. If literatures in these three languages are published it will be a huge success.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Hindi and Gujarati are being published.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Maharaja, didn't you translate Back to Godhead in Bengali?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Yes, we did. But it is not being continued due to lack of qualified persons.]
Godbrother 2: [Transl. Did you mention about Mahaprabhu's Mandir [Yogapitha] discovered by Bhakti Vinoda Thakura in your books?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Oh yes. In each and every book I mentioned.]
Godbrother: [Transl. What I like about you, Maharaja, is that as far as I remember, from your childhood you always wanted something big-international. You always had that desire. And now it has been materialised. When you started Back to Godhead magazine it was two paisa or something, isn't it? But in the world status it was the best of religions. All right. Bring a mrdahga and karatala and let us have some kirtan.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Give mrdahga and karatala to do kirtan.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Get one mrdahga and karatala. Actually at this time most of the devotees are out.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. That's okay. We will…]
Godbrother: [Transl. Our mrdahga player is not here. He is sick.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Where is our Nitai? Where is Nitai? Nitaicand? He can play mrdahga. And you, you chant Hare Krsna.] [break]
jaya om visnu-pada paramahamsa parivrajakacarya astottara-sata sri srimad bhaktisiddhanta sarasvati gosvami thakur ki jaya. ananta-koti vaisnava-vrnda ki jaya. namacarya srila haridasa thakura ki jaya. premse kaho sri-krsna-caitanya-prabhu-nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda ki jaya. sri sri radha-krsna gopa-gopinatha syama-kunḍa radha-kunḍa giri-govardhana ki jaya. vrndavana-dhama ki jaya. navadvipa-dhama ki jaya. gahgamayi ki jaya. yamunamayi ki jaya. samaveta-bhakta-vrnda ki jaya.
All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much.
Devotees: All glories to Srila Prabhupada. [offer obeisances]
Godbrother: [Transl. While going to America you took blessings from here.] [laughs]
Prabhupada: [Transl. We have to go, because our class is at 7AM.]
Godbrother: [Transl. What will you do next?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. They all have different services at the temple. The service must be continued. In Middle East, in Arabian countries, in Tehran we have good response. They all hear with interest. One big…] [aside:] What is the name of that professor?
Atreya Rsi: Ah? Dr. Bakt [?]
Prabhupada: Dr….?
Atreya Rsi: Bakt[?]
Prabhupada: He is the most erudite scholar in Iran. He has received our books. [aside;] What he has said about our books?
Atreya Rsi: That not only they have the philosophy but they have also Vedic culture.
Pusta Krsna: Represents the real Vedic tradition.
Prabhupada: [Transl. He is a Mussalman, but very learned gentleman. He took all our books.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Not so much in Arab. Egypt.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Not yet. But gradually they will take everywhere. Cairo also they will take gradually.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Cairo should be favourable.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. I entrusted them the responsibilities of spreading everywhere. And people are coming.]
Godbrother: [Transl. How about Japan?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. In Japan also we have. But the problem is of language. The boys of Japan are very good.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Don't they know English?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. They know, but very little. They know the philosophy.]
Godbrother: [Transl. I heard in Germany…]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Yes. Germany there is so much.]
Godbrother: [Transl. West Germany?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Ah? West Germany. Poland.]
Godbrother: [Transl. You went?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. In Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rome.]
Pusta Krsna: Even Hungery.
Prabhupada: [Transl. Hungery. Hong Kong. Everywhere. So much preaching in the foreign countries.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Do they speak German language in Hungery?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. German. See here. We have published Sri Caitanya-caritamrta in Germany. Did you read a few pages?]
Godbrother: [Transl. With the help of a torch.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Oh torch?]
Godbrother: [Transl. With ordinary light not possible. Didn't you complete the 24th chapter?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. The whole book is complete.]
Godbrother: [Transl. I need that part.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. We have got them all.]
Godbrother 2: [Transl. Sanatana-siksa] [Lord Caitanya's teachings to Srila Sanatana Gosvami.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. He entire book is completed in seventeen volumes.]
Pusta Krsna: Beautiful color illustrations.
Godbrother: [Transl. Seventeen or eighteen?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Seventeen volumes. All the Universities, colleges and professors are placing standing orders.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Calcutta library may place standing order.]
Godbrother (2): [indistinct]
Prabhupada: [Transl. They know us.]
Godbrother: [Transl. First of all you taste then others.] [laughs]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Give to others.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Giving. Are you distributing prasadam?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. We have opened restaurants. We prepare huge quantity of ghee in New Vrndavana.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Ghee?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Hmm. Every day we produce 1000 pounds of ghee in New Vrndavana.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Really?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. That's why the farm is there. We receive 1000 pound milk. Each cow gives fifty to sixty pounds of milk. Didn't you see our New Vrndavana pictures?]
Godbrother: [Transl. How much land do you have in New Vrndavana?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. 1000 acres.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Where?]
Godbrother 2: [Transl. In New Vrndavana.]
Godbrother: [Transl. New Vrndavana? 1000 acres? So much land was lying vacant?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. There is plenty of land in America.]
Godbrother 2: [Transl. [aside:] Narayana, serve them water.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. It's just that it is not being utilised. I always tell them that there is so much land in the whole world. If properly utilised, then you can feed ten times more population than there is now. People say that there is over population, it is totally nonsense.]
Godbrother: [Transl. India is also not over populated.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Nowhere it is. Only foolish people talk like that.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Our land is comparatively smaller.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. We get information eko bahūnam yo vidadhati kaman [Katha Upanisad 2.2.13] So what's the problem even if there is over population? Can't He feed all? But these fellows have become Godless. When Prthu Maharaja asked Mother Earth that why are you not supplying, what did she answer? Mother earth said that I will not supply anything to these demons. I will make them starve. When people become demons, they will die of starvation. Godless. Otherwise is there any scarcity in the God's kingdom?]
Godbrother: Visvambhara: the Lord who maintains everyone.
Prabhupada: [Transl. That's why it says eko bahūnam vidadhati Kaman. He is feeding everyone. Over population? The animals also. They are also over populated? They are also eating. They give birth one dozen at a time. Are they over populated? He is feeding all. They simply talk nonsense. The real fact is, according to Bhagavata, when people will become Godless and demons they will be destroyed by starvation. That's a fact.]
Godbrother: [Transl. There is no problem if people are God-centric.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. No problem. We see one year there is plenty of food grains and next year there is nothing. It is all in the hands of nature. If there is unlimited population God can supply unlimitedly also. Because they are fools and demons therefore there is scarsity of food. Yoga-ksemam vahamy aham. [Bg 9.22] Why there should be shortage in the kingdom of God?]
Godbrother 2: [Transl. Actually people are sinful.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. That's enough. No more.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Take little more.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. No. I usually don't eat in the morning.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Did you bring water? There is no scarcity of anything.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Prabhupada used to say that the only scarcity is of devotional service to Hari.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Scarcity of Hari-katha.]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Scarcity of Hari-katha. This I have explained to them very clearly that famine is of Hari-katha. Prabhupada said that. I am experiencing. They throw away surplus wheat in the ocean.]
Godbrother: [Transl. Throw away?]
Prabhupada: [Transl. Yes!]
Godbrother: Hare Krsna!
Prabhupada: [Transl. And they request the farmers to produce less food grains, otherwise it will be cheaper. If there is more supply the cost will be less in the market. Therefore they throw away.] [end]
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