Morning Walk at Lodi Gardens – August 27, 1976, Delhi

There are so many gentlemen who have become poisoned by this nonsense

Mahamsa: Everything he was saying is what he has learned from the Ramakrishna Society.

Prabhupada: There are so many gentlemen who have become poisoned by this nonsense.

[break] [japa] Jaya. Very nice garden.

[break] ...you see this nim tree in any other part of the world. It is only in India.

Indian man: Very good.

Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Very good. [break]

[Transl. Our money is spend in the whole country and it is discussed in the Parliament wherefrom the money comes.]

Indian man: [Transl. They need some topic for discussion.]

Prabhupada: Sixty thousand dollars daily.

Gopala Krsna: Every day.

Prabhupada: Every day. This is preaching, real preaching. Substantial. It will remain. Don't pluck anymore. That's all right.

Gopala Krsna: If they see us, they may stop us coming.

Prabhupada: Yes. [Transl. The training is given from the beginning.] Kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan [SB 7.6.1]. This is the process. From the very beginning of life. In Hyderabad that garden, Bala, Bala... You have been?

Gopala Krsna: I didn't go on the walk.

Harikesa: I don't remember the name.

Prabhupada: Bala Bhavan. Jawahar Bala Bhavan.

Harikesa: Oh, yes. Bala Bhavan.

Prabhupada: Three, four big, big buildings, they're closed. What they are teaching to the balas? No teaching. Very old buildings.

Gopala Krsna: This is Lodi tomb. [indistinct]

Prabhupada: Lodi dynasty, there were family, Lodi dynasty.

Indian man: Yes, Lodi tomb.

Prabhupada: Tomb worship. [break]

Indian man: All the conferences here are educational.

Gopala Krsna: It's built by the Americans?

Indian man: Yes. Behind this is a fruit farmer's lot.

[indistinct] [break]

Prabhupada: ...the tomb? Very big.

Harikesa: I was just thinking that this was really a case of decoration of the dead body.

Gopala Krsna: Well, see the Taj Mahal. That's thousand times better than this.

Prabhupada: [sound of bicycle bell] In the gate it is said that bicycle prohibited.

[break] ...tomb was constructed before Taj Mahal. Hare Krsna. [break]

Gopala Krsna: ...improvement on this park.

Indian man: The last two years they have rebuilt this park. [break]

Prabhupada: ...there are similar buildings.

Hari-sauri: In Rome?

Prabhupada: Yes. Old. And hundreds of tourists go to see them.

Hari-sauri: That Coliseum is very famous all over the world. That Coliseum?

Prabhupada: Yes.

After this body, one has to go somewhere. So this is the description, who will go where. Mad-yajino 'pi mam. Those who are preparing to go back to Godhead, they can go. Otherwise, if you go..., want to go in the higher planetary system or in the lower planetary, that you also go. Hare Krsna.

Gopala Krsna: We go from here. [break]

Prabhupada: ...inquires, "Why you are chanting?" The simple reply is that "We have to go somewhere after death. We are going to Godhead. And you do not know where you'll go." Thik hai? [Transl. Am I right?] They do not know where they will go. The animals do not know. Huh?

Indian man: At least we know where we have to go and preparing for that.

Prabhupada: Yes. [end]