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There are two kinds of cleanliness. Outside, externally, we take bath by soap or by soda, by oil. We cleanse external body, and internally by cleansing the intestine, the heart, the mind, the consciousness-that is internally cleansing. And external... Both cleansed, one must be. Bahya abhyantara-sucih. Yah smaret pundarikaksam sa bahya abhyantara-sucih. Because they are not suci... Suci means brahmanas, always cleansed, hygienic. That is suci. And muci. Muci means cobbler. There is a class in India, cobbler. Their business is to take away the dead animals, especially cows. Other animals, they do not care; they are taken by the vultures and others. But when a cow is dead, that is very important. Cow is alive important and dead also important. It is so important. When the cow is dead the skin is valuable, the hoof is valuable, the horn is valuable, the bones are valuable. Everything is valuable. Just like elephant. Dead or alive, it is one lakh of rupees. The price is the same. That is the... Because elephant is very costly, everyone knows. You cannot... One lakh of rupees. Unless one is king or a big zamindar he cannot purchase elephant, neither he can keep. And if the elephant is dead, that is also one lakh of rupees, because it contains the ivory bones, very, very costly. So there are animals, either dead or alive, the price is the same. Similarly cow, dead or alive, the price is the same.    (More...)

So Krsna can take everything. But He does not take, because He is..., appears to educate us. Therefore He is giving very importance cow-keeping, tending the cows, personally. Personally taking, protect cow. He is stealing butter, showing us that "These things should be stolen. If you have no money, then you steal and eat." [laughter] You see? These things are eatable. You see? Produce huge quantity of milk, and make so many preparation out of it, and become healthy. This is the instruction Krsna is giving. Otherwise, what Krsna business, He has got to do some such business? No. He is teaching us. Even the urine in cow is valuable. Stool of cow is valuable. Krsna, in His..., while He is crawling on the yard, He captures the tail of a calf and he drags Him, and He is smeared with all stools and urine of the cows, Krsna enjoys. He is showing that even the stool and urine of cow is valuable, what to speak of its milk. Cow is so important. Personally, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is teaching us.    (More...)

So here also, nanda, nanda-nandanaya... He [She] says, nanda-gopa-kumaraya. Kumara. Kumara means "who is not married." So Krsna remained in Vrndavana up to sixteen years. Therefore He remained always kumara, Nanda-kumara, Nanda-nandana. Here it is explicitly said, Nanda-gopa. And who was Nanda? That is also explained. Nanda means that leader of the cowherds men, or he was king, Nanda Maharaja. "King" does not mean always one has to become a king of very big kingdom. No. Anyone who possesses... Still in India, anyone who possesses some land, he is called king, raja. He is called raja, the zamindar, one who possesses some land, in..., especially in the up-country. [coughs] So Nanda Maharaja, because he possessed some land... He was well-to-do, rich man. [coughs] Because... [aside:] Where is water? He possessed cows and grains. Formerly, a man... Still now, also, actually that is rich, riches. Gavaya dhanavan, one who has got many cows, he is to be considered as rich man. Dhanyena dhanavan. One who has got large quantity of food grain, he is dhanavan. Nowadays, one who has got a bunch of paper, he is considered... And the paper is nothing. As soon as the government is failure, then the hundred..., thousand-dollar note and hundred-dollar notes, it will have no value.    (More...)