Morning Walk – September 15, 1972, Los Angeles

720915MW-Los Angeles [42:52 Minutes]

You cannot bring everyone on the same standard

[in a car]

Prabhupada: Relative means. Relativity to the human society, so a dog is enjoying sex life on the street, why don't you do that?

Devotee: Well there are coming to that, practically. They make advance in sex pleasure.

Prabhupada: That is the statement in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, adanta-gobhir visatam tamisrampunaḥ punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30], adanta-gobhir uncontrolled senses they are going to the darkest regions of hell.

Devotee: Ha.

Prabhupada: Adanta-gobhir.

adanta-gobhir everywhere. Their…philosophy is animalism. [break] there is one word ucitaharaḥ, ucitaharaḥ, ucita means exactly, ucita…. [break]

Svarūpa Damodara: Srila Prabhupada, in Manipur the rasa-lila is conducted almost every year and one of my uncles he condemns that. How can we imitate the activities of the Lord? So is this authorised, it is done every year and sometimes they spend a lot of money on rasa-lila.

Prabhupada: Rasa-lila festival may be observed but you cannot imitate that. Rasa-lila festival is observed in Calcutta also [indistinct] the Deity is decorated, many people come to see, it becomes a festival. Not that people imitates rasa-lila.

Svarūpa Damodara: [indistinct] some children they take the part of Radha and one child take the part the Krsna and then.

Prabhupada: That can be played.

Svarūpa Damodara: Ah.

Prabhupada: [indistinct]

Svarūpa Damodara: In fact these are done by professional singers and they take about six months to. For the festival to prepare and about thousands of people come. Sometimes the Palace of the king and almost everywhere in Manipur.

Prabhupada: That's nice. We can also do like that. . Rasa-lila.

Devotee: Hare Krsna Hare Krsna.

[break]

Prabhupada: [indistinct] also, so suppose a rich man he is gratifying his senses, when is the same standard in everyone?

Syamasundara: [indistinct] in America even the poorest man has the pleasures of a rich man.

Prabhupada: But where is that poor man?

Syamasundara: Has cars, has television, food.

Prabhupada: But. Do you think everyone's standard is the same?

Syamasundara: No but even the poor man can enjoy.

Prabhupada: Huh?

Syamasundara: By material standards, a poor man.

Prabhupada: What is his pleasure? A rich man's car and the poor man's car is the same standard?

Syamasundara: Well.

Prabhupada: A rich man's apartment and poor man's apartment same standard?

Syamasundara: Well it's relative, a poor man he's never had anything and he has nice...

Prabhupada: Then everyone. There is no need of making attempt that everyone should become. Everyone is comfortable in his own standard…

Bali Mardan: They always want to develop.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Syamasundara: Technology, develop [indistinct]

Prabhupada: No, no however you are developed. The first class, second class, third class is always there.

[Exit car]

Same standard you cannot bring everyone on the same standard, the...

Syamasundara: Of course they say that everyone has the opportunity to develop their standard.

Prabhupada: That's all right. Everyone has the opportunity but where is the chance of coming to that level? There is no such chance.

Karandhara: [indistinct] the poor.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Karandhara: They say that everyone is in a democracy, everyone has a chance.

Prabhupada: Chance everyone has, that nobody denies that, but why the chance is not being available to everyone?

Karandhara: Well that's what they're trying to do.

Prabhupada: Trying to do is no, everyone says, "I'm trying to do." Then where is the level?

Svarūpa Damodara: That is just imagination.

Prabhupada: Imagination. durasayaḥ that is called durasayaḥ impossible hope. Bhagavata says, durasayaḥ. durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninaḥ [SB 7.5.31]. They are trying to become happy through the extension of external energy. That is durasayaḥ, that hope will never be. Now suppose everybody has got a car, then where is the road? Suppose everyone gets a car, then where is the road?

Svarūpa Damodara: They cannot move.

Syamasundara: We can make enough, they think that they can make enough roads.

Svarūpa Damodara: [laughter]

Prabhupada: That means hope against hope.

Devotees: [laughter]

Prabhupada: You create problem and work for your. That is therefore they are called asses. That is hoping, "now I shall be getting this twig." You know the...The washer man sits on his back and shows him one vegetable and twig and [indistinct].

Devotees: [laughter]

Prabhupada: It is also increasing. Never gets. That is ass. And [indistinct]

Svarūpa Damodara: Even now, even now everybody doesn't have a car but now there is a problem of pollution because of the exhaust coming out of the unburned gas.

Prabhupada: Ah.

Svarūpa Damodara: It makes the. Especially in Los Angeles in the city area, in the daytime when there is sunshine there is a lot of chemical reactions with the sunshine and unburned gas coming out of the automobiles [indistinct]

Prabhupada: Yes, [indistinct]

Svarūpa Damodara: It's very dangerous.

Prabhupada: Even motor passes, the gas odor is so.

Syamasundara: They think they can make adjustments, they can create some.

Prabhupada: That is durasayaḥ, that is. They think they will be able to make adjustment but never be.

Syamasundara: They have made anti-smog devices to reduce pollution but.

Prabhupada: That means creating problem and struggling for it, working hard for it, that is their game, that's all.

Syamasundara: They just create another problem.

Karandhara: Now they're running out of gasoline. Anyway they made so many cars and everyone has killed themselves in accidents.

Prabhupada: Where is the adjustment?

Syamasundara: It takes so many investments to make[?].

Prabhupada: Durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninaḥ andha, everything is explained in. andhaḥ, the rascal blind leaders leading them, andha yathandhair upaniyamanas [SB 7.5.31].

Svarūpa Damodara: The rich, we practically see in all fields.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Svarūpa Damodara: Problems of the problems.

Prabhupada: Here.

Svarūpa Damodara: Once one is solved then another will come up.

Prabhupada: Andhaḥ, because there are simply problems therefore it is called material otherwise preaching Vaikuntha, Vaikuntha means no problems, vigata-kuntha that is Vaikuntha. As soon as there is problems that is material.

Vaikuntha means no problems, that is real. Everyone is without any problems. Even if they have got motor cars and nice apartments and everything where is the problem solved? The death problem? The disease problem? How it is solved? They cannot solve problems, simply [indistinct]

Karandhara: There are many people who acknowledge that, they say yes everything is always imperfect but they don't believe there is a perfection.

Prabhupada: Not [indistinct]

Karandhara: They are very sceptical.

Prabhupada: No they may not feel it. But you're feeling imperfection means there is perfection that very feeling. Suppose that there is perfection otherwise why you are feeling imperfect?

Karandhara: They sense in a lack of something.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Karandhara: If you're feeling thirsty there must be water.

Prabhupada: Yes. [break] darkness means there must be light. [indistinct] stand first always… avicyuto 'rthaḥ kavibhir nirūpito [SB 1.5.22] pumsas tapasaḥsrutasya va. Education means enlightenment whatever you have learned that should be used for serving the Supreme. Idam hi pumsas tapasaḥsrutasya va. Eh?..Japanese [indistinct] Ah. It is vegetables and fishes, so those who are fish-eaters, it will be very palatable. Fish-eaters they mix vegetable with fish. So it is already combined.

Syamasundara: [indistinct] [loud background noise of the waves] in India?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Syamasundara: Seaweed?

Prabhupada: In Bengal especially.

Syamasundara: Seaweed?

Prabhupada: No I do not know.

Svarūpa Damodara: They're vegetables.

Prabhupada: They use vegetable with fish. That is very palatable.

[brief conversation with Svarūpa Damodara dasa in Hindi]

Svarūpa Damodara: Ha. [Hindi]

Prabhupada: [Hindi]

Svarūpa Damodara: Eh?

Prabhupada: [Hindi]

Svarūpa Damodara: Oh.

Prabhupada: [Hindi]

Svarūpa Damodara: Besides this, [indistinct] they are saying that in a few years the food supply in the Earth will be very limited and the population will increase, so the production of.

Prabhupada: Well… We have already predicted in the Bhagavata there will be no rice, no wheat, no vegetables, no fruit, no milk.

Devotee: Only meat.

Prabhupada: All they have to eat meat. That is already predicted. What you're scientists will say?

Svarūpa Damodara: So now they have started working in the mainland and it is to see, to try to find out the food for the future.

Prabhupada: Rascal where he is going [indistinct] [laughter] that he does not know and he's findings food for the future. He is a rascal. Ask him where you are going in future?

Devotees: [laughter]

Prabhupada: There is no answer. Every point they are simply rascals, mūḍha. There is a Bengali proverb, yara biye tara mane nai, para-lokera ghuma nai, a boy was to be married so all the neighbourhood friends are invited. So they are always thinking when the marriage will take place, marriage will take place, marriage will take place. The boy who was to be married he has forgotten.

There is no answer. Every point they are simply rascals, mūḍha. There is a Bengali proverb, yara biye tara mane nai, para-lokera ghuma nai, a boy was to be married so all the neighbourhood friends are invited. So they are always thinking when the marriage will take place, marriage will take place, marriage will take place. The boy who was to be married he has forgotten.

He has forgotten that he is to be married but others they are busy, "When he'll be married, when he'll be married," he does not know where he's going in future. And he's busy, always future [indistinct]. Where you will live, first of all think. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. So where you will live?

Svarūpa Damodara: That is one of the concepts that almost every scientist is thinking about, they say the gener... After their generation what will my children do, will they survive in the next year is coming ahead? So they always try to do something for their so-called benefit, of the younger generations.

Prabhupada: Why you are thinking for your generation? That is good question, why? Your generation, your Swami is not here, at present. Why you are thinking of your son who will come and take birth? Why you're thinking like that? What is the answer to this question?

Svarūpa Damodara: Because there is a concept of material bondage.

Prabhupada: Now if you are thinking for your future generation, why you're not thinking of your future life? You are thinking for the generation who are expected to come.

Svarūpa Damodara: Yes.

Prabhupada: But what you're doing who are already present?

Svarūpa Damodara: They also serves the existence of the soul eternally.

Prabhupada: Ha. If the soul is eternal then what you are doing for yourself?

Karandhara: [indistinct] spend their whole lives thinking about the next future generation.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Karandhara: The future generation will also have to spend their whole lives thinking about the next future generation.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Devotee: It's all a myth.

Prabhupada: You must have definite aim, actually what is [indistinct]

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. [break]

Prabhupada: [indistinct] everything is there but why you're thinking of others to come?

Karandhara: They don't like to experience pain.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Karandhara: They don't like to experience pain.

Prabhupada: That's all right but your experiencing pain but your. The point is why you do not like to experience? What is the answer?

Svarūpa Damodara: Because we are missing the real.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Svarūpa Damodara: The real knowledge, we are missing that.

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes.

Karandhara: Then what is the answer to that question?

Prabhupada: The answer is because the soul is there in the body, he is eternal, he is seeking eternal happiness but he's not getting, being bound up with this body, this is the answer. This is the answer. The soul is there, just like you are repairing the house because you are there, you are there. If you would not have been there, they don't care for the house. The importance of the body is due to the soul, not the body as it is.

Karandhara: Why doesn't the soul like to experience pain?

Prabhupada: Eh?

Karandhara: Why doesn't the soul.

Prabhupada: Because the future combined… The nature is such…ananda-moya avyasat, part and parcel of God. God is free therefore He is always enjoying rasa-lila. I am part and parcel of God I want also freedom like that. That is our point, that you want everything like God but you are now bound up by this material consciousness. Get out of it and you get there. That is Krsna consciousness.

You are suffering on account of being attacked by fever. Get out of it. People are working hard to get the body comforts but why you are getting. Trying to get the body comfortable? Because the soul is there. The same picture we have drawn, the bird is in the cage [indistinct] and he's covering the cage. You've seen that picture? He's simply covering the cage. The material civilisation means they are simply covering the cage and the bird within the cage is died.

That is material civilisation. And they are so foolish that... The cage's importance is because the bird is there. They are simply taking to make the cage useful. Just like [indistinct], the whole program is on the cage, not on the bird. The bird is suffering for want of food. They have no attention for this; they are checking on cage, taking care of cage only. The whole attention is diverted to the cage.

Syamasundara: This idea of preparing for the future, it seems natural. Just like you are translating books so that in the future your disciples will have this knowledge.

Prabhupada: But I have got an aim. I have right aim. But they have no aim.

Syamasundara: Ah.

Prabhupada: I am giving knowledge with the right aim, but they have no right aim. What is the use of their knowledge?

Syamasundara: It is natural, then, to think of future generations? [indistinct]

Prabhupada: No, we are not thinking of future generation; we are thinking of the future of the soul. They are not interested in either future generation. They are, "Why shall I leave my family?"

Syamasundara: I mean...Your disciples in the future will benefit from your books.

Prabhupada: Books for getting the right knowledge, that is a different thing.

Svarūpa Damodara: All the activities, both spiritual and the material, Srila Prabhupada, are all done by the soul only. The activities of the soul.

Prabhupada: Yes, that is called… What is called?

That is called atma-tattvam, apasyatam atma-tattvam [SB 2.1.2]. That is actual science. The science of spirit, the science of spirit soul. This is knowledge, atma-tattvam. They do not see, they do not, they have no idea what is spirit, what is the nature of the spirit. How he is happy, how he can become happy, these things they do not know. They are taking care of the bird. Therefore they have been called as go-kharaḥ, cows and asses, animals.

Svarūpa Damodara: So the difference is in the material platform?

Prabhupada: Ah.

Svarūpa Damodara: Since the soul is bound in this material body.

Prabhupada: Yes. So you take care of the body because the soul is there but don't forget the soul's needs.

Svarūpa Damodara: Hm.

Prabhupada: That is our movement.

Syamasundara: Don't forget the soul's?

Prabhupada: Needs.

Syamasundara: Need.

Prabhupada: Yes. Why you are simply one-sided? You don't say that don't take care of the body but our prime necessity is how to take care of the soul.

Yasyatma-buddhiḥ kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhiḥ kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhiḥ . That's why we are taking this morning walk, this is taking care of this body but we are taking care of the body for the reason that we shall go back and engage this body in the service of Krsna. That is our main objective, it is not that we simply take care of the body and there is no need of Krsna consciousness…

We do not say that you... There is no necessity of producing food, there is no necessity of eating, there is no necessity of sleeping we don't… The karmis they are denying that there is soul or there is God, they have no knowledge. Therefore they are misled. [indistinct]

Devotee: Yes.

Prabhupada: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

Svarūpa Damodara: The reason this human life is so important.

Prabhupada: Ha.

Svarūpa Damodara: Because we can think about the. real symptoms of the soul.

Prabhupada: Yes. Real feature. The huma…the dogs, cats cannot understand what is the real future. The real future is go back to home back to Godhead. That is real future. Not that, "Oh, what my future sons will eat?"

Syamasundara: What my future sons will eat. [laughs]

Prabhupada: Hm…. [engine starting] that is called mayayapahrta-jnana, real knowledge is taken away by the illusory energy. How is that? Write books. Our books are already there and we have discussed all these points in our purports in so many ways. All politics, sociology, education everything.

[in car]

hari-nama, hari-nama, hari-nama, hari…[break] America is the first class nation but they do not know what is self. They are considering this body as the self. That is material. And when the body is dead, he cries, "Ah my father is gone, my father is gone." But where? Your father is lying there, this body you have seen as the body of your father, as your father, why you're crying?

What is the answer? And you are thinking of your father's and your son's future. The future, everyone's future is death. However you may arrange for comfortable life you cannot avoid death.

Syamasundara: At the time of death most people because they have no clear conception of God or the afterlife. The only, the only conception they have of God is that. He is responsible for the death of my beloved therefore I blame Him. Many people blame God. [break]

Prabhupada: [Sounds like the tape is going backwards] [indistinct]

Svarūpa Damodara: If one understands that this present life is preparation for the next life.

Prabhupada: Yes that is a fact. Just like a child is meant for boyhood, boyhood is meant for youthhood, youthhood is meant for old age, aged body. Similarly the next body, next future, that they do not know what is next future.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. [indistinct] our constitution is if one is not Krsna conscious he has no good qualification…andha yathandhair [SB 7.5.31] Hare Krsna Hare Krsna. [break]

Karandhara: Well the legal proceedings are …

Prabhupada: [indistinct]

Syamasundara: We cannot hear you.

Karandhara: Legal proceedings [indistinct] doing their service [indistinct] [break]

Prabhupada: [indistinct]

Devotee: No responsibility [indistinct]

Prabhupada: So you are given freedom, it is my opinion, so you must have [indistinct].

Karandhara: So in Los Angeles although everyone has a right to vote only 50% of people bother to even vote.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Karandhara: Because too lazy and they don't want to even take the time.

Prabhupada: No. In another sense what is the use of giving votes? They are all rascals.

Syamasundara: Everybody thinks like that.

Prabhupada: I never gave vote.

Devotees: [laughter]

Prabhupada: Never. All these rascals, why shall I give? Since the independence has been [indistinct] I never vote, give vote anyone. Don't agree. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

Devotees: Hare Krsna Hare Krsna [break]

Prabhupada: You are [indistinct] meeting, even in Vrndavana they hold meetings on Rūpa Gosvamis birthday or appearance day. I do not agree.

Karandhara: With the meetings?

Prabhupada: No, in Vrndavana the meetings because I know all these Gosvamis like our, what is that? Gosvami?. Pūrnacandra Gosvami.

Karandhara: Pūrnacandra.

Prabhupada: All artificial. They have no respect for the Rūpa Gosvamior Jiva Gosvami. They expect business. Our international society has taken seriously that Caitanya Mahaprabhu [indistinct] spread but they have no such seriousness. They want to utilise Caitanya Mahaprabhu for their belly. Sense gratification.

Syamasundara: Hm.

Prabhupada: Earning money by showing the Deity. "Radha-Damodara, give me something." And then doing all nonsense, drinking. Instead of serving God, they employ God to their service... [pause] [end]