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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Whale or some fish skeleton. As big as this room, it was hanging. I think it is there.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- May 2, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- May 2, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Not only here, but in your country they are giving trouble in different way.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yeah, definitely are.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Whole world. In one place in one way, in another place in another way. Simply harassment.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This is the planet where one is first...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Duḥkhālayam. Still, they are trying to..., the heaven here. This is mūḍha. He'll never become happy; he'll try and try again and again. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām: ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30]]) again and again trying for the same purpose, which will never be fulfilled.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Very foolish. Somehow, though, it seems that if we remain true to everything you've taught and remain true to Bhagavad-gītā and to Kṛṣṇa, that somehow we can counteract the entire world of atheists. Seems possible.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This movement is so powerful, this message is so pure, that it seems that no matter how big the opposition is, still, it can conquer. We can be victorious. Arjuna was victorious. There's a wonderful statement in the beginning... You make this... It's stated in the Tenth Canto. Parīkṣit Mahārāja is appreciating Arjuna, and he's saying, "How, how could he defeat such gigantic...?" He's comparing to the ocean the battlefield. He says, "Bhīṣma, such a big fish..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Timiṅgila.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In the ocean there are fishes. You cannot see them. Big fishes: (makes gulping sound). From the skeleton I saw in Calcutta Museum...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Whale skeleton?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Whales.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Whale or some fish skeleton. As big as this room, it was hanging. I think it is there.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, in the Museum of Natural History in New York they have a whale that is at least twice the length of this room.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just see.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And the height is at least three times the height of this room.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So they can swallow, big, big fish. There is immense space in the sea.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually the one in the Museum of Natural History in New York, they didn't even leave the skeleton. They recreated the body so it looks just real. We went with Bharadvāja and Rāmeśvara and myself for studying for the doll project. We were looking at how they made everything very authentic. It's amazing. They even have underwater scenes. Of course, there's no water, but it appears to be underwater by the way they make the diorama. So this evening in the... They'll be coming in to see you, the managers.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So let them begin the foundation.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Gurukula.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm. Let it go on slowly, but it must begin.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. What is the idea there?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I mean, what is the idea in "Even if it goes slowly, it must begin"?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, if there is no money, it can go slowly.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But at least the work should be there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Something should be seen to be going on.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Somebody has promised there. So as you get help, you go on. But it must be begun.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So tonight we can discuss it. (break)</p>
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