751226 - Morning Walk - Sanand

Morning Walks by Date, 1975

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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751226MW-SANAND - December 26, 1975 - 06:00 Minutes

Prabhupāda: How degraded they have become. There is no food, and they are busy for growing tobacco.

Hari-śauri: You say that's what they call a cash crop.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Hari-śauri: The other day.

Prabhupāda: Now eat cash. So cash is also paper. So what is the use of laboring so hard? You eat paper. Paper is available.

Yaśomatīnandana: It is prohibited to buy gold with that paper.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Yaśomatīnandana: You cannot buy gold. Government has prohibited.

Prabhupāda: Because you are rascal, your government is rascal. Democracy. What is the government? Government means your replica. So why do you blame the government? You are fools, rascals; you send other fools and rascals and suffer consequence. Tea, growing tobacco, growing jute, and no grains. And grain for the animal, so that animal, as soon as it becomes fatty, send it to the slaughterhouse, and then finish business. Smoke, eat meat, drink and be happy. So much land, but it is producing tobacco, which we are prohibiting, "No smoking." (break) Vegetable is utilized. Isme kya banta hai? (What is this made out of?)

Indian man: Isme hay banate hain. (It is made out of hay.)

Prabhupāda: Woh to protection. Aur kuch kaam hai? (That is protection, any other work?)

Indian man: Nahi baki jal hai, fork, fork, fork kehte hain jisko. (No, the remaining work is a water fork. Fork, it is called fork.)

Indian man: Rann mein hota hai. But Rann mein jo hota hai desert. (It is there in Rann, but the desert in Rann.)

Prabhupāda: To usme kya kaam hota hai? (What work goes on there?)

Indian man: Nothing

Prabhupāda: These crops. Jante hi nahi kis tarah se light. (I don't know how light.) (break) Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām. (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13)

Indian man: Prabhā means effulgence.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Indian man: That means samooh hai effulgence. (That means together it is effulgence.)

Prabhupāda: Yes. Prabhā. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi (Bs. 5.40).

Indian man: What is meant, "halo" and "effulgence"? That word meaning, "halo"? Prabhā?

Prabhupāda: Halo is kṣatta. Practically the same meaning. (break) Just like field is green and this field is not green. If you take care, every field will be green.

(break) . . . prasādam to the audience.

Yaśomatīnandana: Sumptuous.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Yaśomatīnandana: Full plate.

Prabhupāda: Then accept program. (break) If there is.distribution of prasādam then we can go everywhere, whole day program. Kīrtana and distribution. So that is going on. And simply dry philosophy, what people will understand?

Yaśomatīnandana: To kya pasand hai? (So what do they like?)

Prabhupāda: Jo tum de sako? Dāl, roṭī, chawal, sabjī. Do pet bhar ke khane ko. (What can you give? Dal, roti, chawal, sabji. Give to the stomach.) (end)