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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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One should not do anything wrong; one should not suffer anything wrong. That is human. If somebody does harm to me, wrong to me, I cannot suffer it. I shall not do any harm to anyone. That's all right. But if you want to give me suffering, I must fight you. Why shall I suffer it? That is kṣatriya spirit.
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[[Vanisource:770103 - Conversation B - Bombay|770103 - Conversation B - Bombay]]
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Prabhupāda: Kick out the West. (laughter) We are doing here, in India. The Municipality is doing that also in Vṛndāvana. Everywhere it is. In Calcutta there is called dhāpāra māṭha. Dhāpāra māṭha . . . formerly, anything produced in dhāpāra māṭha, that was not used for Deity. The superstition, that "These vegetables are grown in filthy water, nasty . . ." But the vegetables were . . . cauliflower, so big, so big. Everything, very luxuriantly, very tasteful and solid and big. Dhāpāra māṭhera (cauliflower). Yes. In Bengal, generally, the land is very fertile to produce vegetables. But this, the more the filthy things of the city were thrown there, and the cultivator used to grow very nice. That is utilization of this filthy water, where there was sewer ditches formerly. In the village they diverted from the water in the field, and they got good crops. Generally they pass stool in the field. The cow's, cow dung and man's stool and everyone's stool, they are wrapped together in the rainy season. It became fertile . . . (indistinct)

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We will try for that land.

Prabhupāda: Immediately. That is . . . that will be proper utilization. And in the court, unless they arrange for this dirty water out, why shall I pay tax? We shall stick to this position.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We are sticking to it. The only harm to us is our Gurukula is going to get delayed now, the opening.

Prabhupāda: But in the meantime you . . .

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. And also we are running out of time, because we can't let water accumulate, I mean, the way it is.

Prabhupāda: So why you can't? We have purchased that land. They have to . . .

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, that is . . . we have to try for that now.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That means . . . we have purchased that land. By force you can drive out? We are trying for that. Go to the court, "We have regularly purchased that land. What can be done? The Municipality is not doing anything." We have to fight like that.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, we are fighting, I mean . . .

Prabhupāda: Why you should be afraid?

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No. I, what I mean is the water . . . we're having all that trouble with the man in the back.

Prabhupāda: That I am speaking, that he is trouble. Why he should be giving us trouble? We purchased it. Take land; take money. And we have purchased the land for this purpose. We are doing other arrangement; that is our mercy. But even that land . . . the Municipality is obliged.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, they are.

Prabhupāda: Otherwise we can throw the water on the street. That is Municipal's duty. Otherwise, why shall I pay tax? We shall do everything, we shall pay tax, and we shall suffer? What is this?

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We're not paying tax. We are fighting it in the court.

Prabhupāda: So in this way we have to fight. We should not be afraid for these rascals. Why you should be afraid? If they take to guṇḍā-ism, we shall engage fifty guṇḍās, "Come on. Let us see." We have to maintain that spirit. Anaye yei kare prabhu anaye yei sahe. The Rabindranath Tagore's one poetry, "One who does wrong and suffers wrong, he is wrong." One should not do anything wrong; one should not suffer anything wrong. That is human. If somebody does harm to me, wrong to me, I cannot suffer it. I shall not do any harm to anyone. That's all right. But if you want to give me suffering, I must fight you. Why shall I suffer it? That is kṣatriya spirit. Yuddhe cāpy apalayanam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.43 (1972)|BG 18.43]]). "If you are challenging, 'All right, come on,' I accept this challenge." We have to do like that. Now, this bāniyā spirit . . . our Bhagatji, he purchased that land, and he's afraid of him. What is this? Bāniyā spirit. But you are kṣatriya.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: (laughs) He has to . . . I'm not there all the time. They come to his house to . . .

Prabhupāda: No, you argue with weapon. Beat them. We shall see. Go to the police that, "This is nonsense."

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, we've done that.

Prabhupāda: So how is that?

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: At the present moment he's okay; he's quiet.

Prabhupāda: No, we should beat them. If somebody, ātatāyī . . . "You unnecessarily attack me, I must first kill you. That is my duty." Just like you have done here, Setterji: "I'll bring my revolver." So that is argumentum baculum. Here they wanted to put us into trouble, and he was in great trouble. So he came, he stood: "All right, come on. We shall fight. Bring my revolver." He did that. So we have to do like that. Why shall I tolerate unnecessary injustice? Take that spirit. And in meantime, apply. That is the solution. Why shall I spend for them? And unless they arrange for the sewer lines, we're not going to pay tax.
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