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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div class="heading">One doctor? So he is friend. He told me that when he was student, Colonel (indistinct), one big professor, medicine, he was lecturing. He was Englishman. He said that "In our country, seventy to eighty percent of the student community, they are suffering from syphilitic attack." So in our country, in India, if one is attacked with syphilis, then he is taken as very abominable. His character is not good, it is understood. So he said, "Horrible," Dr. Ghosh, because he was Indian student.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.9.9 -- Tokyo, April 25, 1972, Informal Class in Room|Lecture on SB 2.9.9 -- Tokyo, April 25, 1972, Informal Class in Room]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. From the miseries, Mr. John is happy by becoming naked and having fireplace. He is bringing the wood personally, putting there. And Yoko is very happy. Japanese wife. She was talking philosophy with me.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Now he has made one song, "I don't believe in Hare Kṛṣṇa."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: John.</p>
<p>Sudāmā: "He is me."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. So our Hare Kṛṣṇa will be advertised. (laughter) People will be inquisitive, "What is this Hare Kṛṣṇa?" at least. One who does not know. That is good.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Because nobody believes in John Lennon anymore either.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How long it will go bluffing?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: He is losing his...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Popularity.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: His popularity. People are becoming disappointed because formerly he was very brilliant songwriter, but now it's become very degraded.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: He formerly was married before, and he had family I think. But then he divorced to marry...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not divorce. The contract is her former husband should live also. She has got double husband. He is living there along with him. I know that.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Cox.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Cox. He is living there.</p>
<p>Devotee: Simply insanity. Insanity.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Insanity. Yes. He is the manager. What manager? He has got motorcycle and goes round. He must be given some post. And he has also married another? That...</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Dan? I don't think he is legally married.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Friend. She has got, he has got a child?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: One or two small children.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So he has to maintain all of them. On this contract that Yoko is there.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Yes. Dan was her old friend. Dan was her friend. That's why he became manager.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So all this business on the basis of sex. That's all. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham ([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.45|SB 7.9.45]]). For very insignificant happiness they are encumbered in so many ways. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tucchaṁ kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: And every time she tried to have a child, because they lead such a decadent life, she has miscarriage every time.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That means she has got syphilitic poison. Girls who cannot bear child means there is syphilitic poison. Either the man has got syphilitic poison or the woman has got syphilitic poison. And for these men, syphilis is not very uncommon.</p>
<p>Sudāmā: In this country, it is now also very, like epidemic.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Syphilis. All over Europe. When Dr. Ghosh, who is my friend, he came to see me in Allahabad? One doctor? So he is friend. He told me that when he was student, Colonel (indistinct), one big professor, medicine, he was lecturing. He was Englishman. He said that "In our country, seventy to eighty percent of the student community, they are suffering from syphilitic attack." So in our country, in India, if one is attacked with syphilis, then he is taken as very abominable. His character is not good, it is understood. So he said, "Horrible," Dr. Ghosh, because he was Indian student. So Colonel (indistinct) replied, "Why you are saying horrible? In your country ninety percent people are attacked malaria. So there, syphilis. So as a medical practitioner why you take this disease as bad or that disease as good? Your business is to see that there should be no disease. Don't consider in that way, that 'This disease is good, this disease is bad.' " That's nice explanation. But fifty years ago or hundred years ago syphilitic poison was very much prevalent. Still it is in Europe and America. And now it is spreading all over. And in Āyur Veda it is said, phiraṅga, phiraṅga. Phiraṅgī. The Europeans are described in Vedic literatures as phiraṅgī, their name is phiraṅgī. So this syphilitic disease is mentioned in the Āyur Veda, the disease brought by the phiraṅgīs. And the doctor says that originally it was spread through dog. The unmarried girls, they keep dog for sex. You do not know? He knows. You will find very beautiful girl is keeping very big dog. They are trained to have sex life. And that is cause of syphilis. The dog is full of syphilitic germs. It is called phiraṅga in the Āyur Veda. And one who has got syphilitic germs, his life is doomed. Unless it is properly treated and cured, so many disease will follow. So many. This craziness is also due to syphilitic poison, parents.</p>
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