Morning Walk, partially recorded – March 16, 1974, Vṛndāvana

You do not read Bhagavad-gita? You are publishing for selling

Prabhupada: ...by enjoying this morning fresh air.

Gurudasa: Yes.

Prabhupada: And if you take bath in the Yamuna, you will get double energy. These are nature's gifts. And then we chant Hare Krsna mantra. It is not at all difficult. To live a spiritual life, very easy.

[break] this... [break]... take photo.

Gurudasa: Oh, I can do that.

Prabhupada: All sides.

Gurudasa: Yes.

Prabhupada: So if somebody can manufacture by seeing the photograph in Jaipur, that's all right. Otherwise we shall test. [break] ...some marble statues, by seeing the morning. [break] ...actual measurement.

Gurudasa: Oh. [break]

Prabhupada: ...our grhastha householders, how they are rising early, taking bath in Yamuna, coming to the temple.

Gurudasa: Yes.

Prabhupada: This is Vedic culture. [break] ...of eating. Western culture means early in the morning, tea. First of all tea, and..., what is called?

Devotee: Coffee.

Prabhupada: Coffee, tea, and so many other things.

Devotee: Oh, toast. Toast.

Prabhupada: Toast. And they will, their evacuation will be stopped. As soon as the belly is loaded... But they are accustomed. After eating they are evacuate not easily. [break] ...for sevaita sake. It is for the Kanpur-wala. [break] ...then there is no question of fighting; otherwise we shall take criminal and civil [indistinct].

[break] ...seven hundred.

Gurudasa: Seven hundred. [break] ...renovate these rooms, or just in general?

Prabhupada: Huh? General.

Gurudasa General.

Prabhupada: Yes. That veranda, that, whatever he likes we shall..., we will spend. We'll pay the bills and everything.

Gurudasa Yes. [break]

Prabhupada: ...to give us the temple portion free, and purchase the land for balance. [break] ...negotiate. But we have no sufficient men to manage. [break] ...unless you can utilize.

Gurudasa: Yes.

Prabhupada: That is fifty... fifty lakhs, twenty-five, that is beyond us. We can spare up to two lakhs, that's all. [break] ...be able to manage? [break] ...people.

Gurudasa: Yes. The Britishers.

Prabhupada: Britishers, they train. Just like in India, they trained. They were on the head of the administration. The Viceroy, the governor, the secretaries, the military commander, they are all Englishmen. All other, Indians. Therefore Gandhi started non-cooperation movement, that "These people are ruling over us by our cooperation."

Gurudasa: Yes.

Prabhupada: So "Non-cooperate with them, they will fail." And that was successful. He started non-cooperation movement, that "Don't cooperate with these Britishers." And when they saw there is now full non-cooperation, they left voluntarily. It is not possible to bring so many administrators, military strength, men, and too. Actually the British empire was expanded through the help of Indians.

Gurudasa: Yes, they did all the work.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Gurudasa: Actually, if the British were more intelligent they could have continued.

Prabhupada: Oh, yes.

Gurudasa: Just like that mutiny. The grease was used in the guns, and the brahmanas mutinied?

Prabhupada: That is propaganda. [looking at ground] Now, this is urine?

Devotee: Yes.

Prabhupada: Just see nonsense.

Gurudasa: Yes.

Prabhupada: Who has passed this thing? [break] ...then other qualities.

Gurudasa: Truthfulness.

Prabhupada: Truthfulness and cleanliness. Satyam saucam.

Gurudasa: Satyam saucam.

Prabhupada: Samaḥ damaḥ titiksavaḥ arjavam jnanam vijnanam [Bg 18.42]. You do not read Bhagavad-gita? You are publishing for selling. It will be read by others; we are simply to make money? These are in the Bhagavad-gita. Don't you read it?

Devotee: Yes, I read it. The qualities of a brahmana is given, along with the qualities of all the other varnas.

Prabhupada: We have..., taking sacred thread has qualities less than sūdra. Camaras, cobblers. Camara means expert in skin. "I am white," "I am black," "I am this," "I am that," that is camara. Expert in skin.

[break] People are very receptive?

Devotee: Yes, especially Gujarati and Marwari communities.

Prabhupada: Ah.

Devotee: The South Indians, they are not so receptive. [break]

Prabhupada: ...men, so everyone should be very alert in their behavior. Rising early in the morning, taking bath, be prepared for mahgala aratik immediately. Then class. Everything in regulated way.

[break] ...and still everyone comes to the point, "I know everything." This point.

Devotee: Yes.

Prabhupada: On the basis of Bhagavad-gita, then nobody can supercede. [break] ...he turns back all our money invested, with these people.

[break] ...if he's prepared to pay double the price, so why not pay the full price, fourteen lakhs? We have paid two lakhs; let him pay twelve lakhs, and he'll immediately transfer, and we'll take double price from him, so that...

[break] ...if he's so eager. These, these are practical. If he's prepared to pay double, why not pay us? [break] [end]