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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG411BombayMarch311974_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="159" link="Lecture on BG 4.11 -- Bombay, March 31, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.11 -- Bombay, March 31, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.11 -- Bombay, March 31, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.11 -- Bombay, March 31, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have got experience. Just like when you fly on the plane, after some hours, four, five hours, you become disgusted. You want to come down. Everyone has got this experience. Because the sky is zero, we cannot remain there more than four or five hours or six hours. We must come down. In the sea also. We have got all these experience. If you remain on the ocean for three, four days... Because it runs on. When I first went to America, I went by ship. So thirty-five days. So after four, five days, it was disgusting. As soon as we saw one island, then we became relieved. (Laughter) You see?</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG61624LosAngelesFebruary171969_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="215" link="Lecture on BG 6.16-24 -- Los Angeles, February 17, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.16-24 -- Los Angeles, February 17, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.16-24 -- Los Angeles, February 17, 1969|Lecture on BG 6.16-24 -- Los Angeles, February 17, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here it is said, "There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogi, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little." Very nice program. Don't eat too little. You eat whatever you require. But don't eat more. Similarly don't sleep more. If you can keep your health perfect, but try to reduce it. Suppose you are sleeping ten hours. But if I keep myself fit by sleeping five hours, why should I sleep ten hours? So this is the process. Don't do anything artificially. So far the body is concerned, we have got four demands. Eating, sleeping, mating and defending. The defect is that modern civilization that they are thinking that this eating process, sleeping process if we can increase, that is very nice. If we can sleep the whole day and night on Saturday and Sunday, oh it is great profit, enjoyment. That is the civilization. They think it is an opportunity to enjoy life by sleeping thirty hours a day. You see? No. Don't do that. Reduce it. Try to reduce it but not artificially. Go on.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG132MelbourneApril41972_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="344" link="Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972|Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like the symptoms of life means it takes birth at a certain date, then it grows, it stays, it gives some byproducts, then dwindles, then vanishes. Take any. Either you take tree or you take a human body, or you take an animal body or if you take an insect body, or take the demigod's body—any body you take, there is a certain date of birth, everyone, certain date of birth. And then there is a certain duration of life. Somebody lives for ten years. Somebody lives for one year. Somebody lives for six hours, five hours. There are many germs. They live for five hours, six hours, or even less than that. And there are living entities like Brahmā, whose life is millions and millions of years.</p>
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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 id="LectureonSB126LondonAugust271971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="34" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So don't think in the Vaikuṇṭha or in Goloka Vṛndāvana there is no sex impulse. There is—in Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. But not like this abominable way. The impulse is there in a perfect order. So they're enjoying. Not like this abominable sex life. The devotees there, they are so much absorbed in Kṛṣṇa thought, they don't like to have sex. There are beautiful women, beautiful men, very, very. But they have got other engagement, very nice engagement. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate. Just like, for example, in this, our society also, you see thousands of men are standing, paying to see some dead body. Sense enjoyment. You see? But our men are not so rascal that they will stand for five hours to see some dead body. You see? Similarly, why? Why they are able not to go there, stand? Because they have seen something better.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB2948TokyoApril231972_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="408" link="Lecture on SB 2.9.4-8 -- Tokyo, April 23, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.9.4-8 -- Tokyo, April 23, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.9.4-8 -- Tokyo, April 23, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.9.4-8 -- Tokyo, April 23, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We cannot imitate Kṛṣṇa, but we can follow Kṛṣṇa. We can follow His footsteps, how He was living. He was a gṛhastha. He was not a sannyāsī. So our sannyāsī is not very great credit. To remain gṛhastha, because we are going back to Godhead, back to home, the whole, our master, is gṛhastha. Not only gṛhastha, He has got so many wives. So to become sannyāsī is not very great credit, according to our Vaiṣṇava philosophy. To become perfect house-holder, that is credit. Perfect householder, like Kṛṣṇa. Read Kṛṣṇa book regularly. Why these books are written? Only for selling? Taking statistics, "How many books you have sold?" You learn, read. Always read, twenty-four hours. As soon as you get time, read. I do that. I do that. Reading, writing, or chanting. But when there is no other way, you sleep little. Not to enjoy sleep, but because it is not possible to continue, all right, sleep one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, five hours. Not more than that. Not that I am sleeping, enjoying life, up to eight o'clock, twelve o'clock.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB566VrndavanaNovember281976_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="572" link="Lecture on SB 5.6.6 -- Vrndavana, November 28, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.6.6 -- Vrndavana, November 28, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.6.6 -- Vrndavana, November 28, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.6.6 -- Vrndavana, November 28, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So our request is that you have taken to this vairāgya-vidyā. So vairāgya-vidyā, we do not say that you starve, don't eat anything, don't sleep at all. No. It should be regulated. Anāsaktasya viṣayān yathārtham upayuñjataḥ. Don't be attached to eating, sleeping. That is not good. But you must eat, you must sleep as little as possible, and try to conquer over it. My mind dictating, "Sleep seventeen hours." No. That is tapasya. Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.13]]). Why shall you sleep more than four hours or five hours, or utmost six hours? That's all, not more than that. That is vairāgya-vidyā. We have to learn it. That is devotional service. Vairāgya-vidyā nija-bhakti-yogam ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.254|CC Madhya 6.254]]). He's teaching. Kṛṣṇa Himself is teaching. Here you see. Ṛṣabhadeva is Kṛṣṇa. Vairāgyā-vidyā. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He taught vairāgya-vidyā. Tyaktvā sudustyaja-surepsita-rājya-lakṣmīṁ dharmiṣṭha ārya-vacasā yad agād araṇyam, māyā-mṛgaṁ dayitayepsitam anvadhāvad vande mahā-puruṣa te caraṇāravindam ([[Vanisource:SB 11.5.34|SB 11.5.34]]).</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB616BombayNovember61970_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="583" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.6 -- Bombay, November 6, 1970" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.6 -- Bombay, November 6, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.6 -- Bombay, November 6, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.6 -- Bombay, November 6, 1970]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Vibhūti-bhinnam. In this planet also, different places have got different opulence. Just like in India you will find throughout the whole year brilliant sunshine, and in Western countries, in London, hellish—always moist, raining, and cloudy. You cannot distinguish whether it is night or day. In our... Now I was in London. When I was, I think, last year, in this time, December, the morning was at ten o'clock, and the evening was at three o'clock. So how many hours from ten to three?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Five.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Five hours day. And nineteen hours night. So, of course, I was rising, as usual, early in the morning, so I wanted to go out. So I couldn't go out before half-past-nine to the Regent Park, and it was full of snow and ice, and it is very difficult to walk. So just like in this planet there are different places of different conditions, so it is natural to accept it that different planets have got different atmosphere, different opulences, different kinds of population, living entities. Keśava tuyā jagat vicitra. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung that "My dear Kṛṣṇa, Your creation is variegated." There are different types. Similarly, there are planets where hellish conditions perpetually continue. Just like you can compare the northern pole. It is a hellish condition within this earth. And similarly, there are planets, so, and they are suffering.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB766NewVrindabanJune221976_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="757" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.6 -- New Vrindaban, June 22, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.6 -- New Vrindaban, June 22, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.6 -- New Vrindaban, June 22, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.6.6 -- New Vrindaban, June 22, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ajitātmanaḥ, ajita means not conquered. One who has not been able to conquer over the sense activities, for them, it is not, even if he lives for one hundred, fifty years immediately minus in sleeping. In our temple in New York, in the beginning when I was having classes in the morning at seven o'clock, still people from here and there they would come and protest and go to the police because we were disturbing their sleep. Yes. They want to sleep as much possible hours. I think that is very great gain in the Western country, to sleep. So to sleep means simply waste of time. You must know it. Either I sleep five hours, six hours, ten hours, twelve hours, it is simply waste of time. The valuable life which you have got, immediately so many hours minus. Sleep is not good. Sleep, if we can do without sleep, that is perfection. Not that "Let me enjoy sleep twelve hours, fourteen hours, whole life." No. That is waste of time:</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB768VrndavanaDecember101975_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="760" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.8 -- Vrndavana, December 10, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.8 -- Vrndavana, December 10, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.8 -- Vrndavana, December 10, 1975|Lecture on SB 7.6.8 -- Vrndavana, December 10, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore the training is, according to śāstra and the instruction of the spiritual master, that (indistinct): rise early in the morning. Just like a man... Not one man, there are thousands and millions of men at the present moment, because he has got attachment for the family he rises at four o'clock and prepares himself to catch the train at six o'clock to reach Calcutta, Bombay at ten o'clock and attend the office. So from four o'clock to ten o'clock, he has taken so much changing. I have seen in New York also, they are coming in from the other island and waiting for the bus, waiting for the ferry steamer, and so many hours wasted to reach the office. And he works in the office for four or five hours, then again he takes this trouble of going so many miles away. Why he is taking so much trouble? Family attachment. Family attachment. So the people are... Not that he has no attachment. He has got attachment, but this attachment, the same four o' clock, rising early in the morning, for Kṛṣṇa's maṅgala-ārati. This is diversion, a better. But he'll not agree. When he has got to go to office for earning his livelihood, he will automatically rise up and go to the office, because the attachment is strong. But in the temple, the rule is that you must get up before four and prepare yourself, and we have to ring the bells three hundred times, and still you are sleeping. Just see.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila2098102April271976AucklandNewZealand_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="50" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.98-102 -- April 27, 1976, Auckland, New Zealand" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.98-102 -- April 27, 1976, Auckland, New Zealand">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.98-102 -- April 27, 1976, Auckland, New Zealand|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.98-102 -- April 27, 1976, Auckland, New Zealand]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you want to understand God... That is the business of human life. Human life is specially... That is the chance. Because we are in the cycle of birth and death, changing, migrating from one body to another... This is our position. So except human body, lower than the human body, we can understand how they are suffering. Suppose a tree. Here we are sitting so comfortably. A few yards off from this place, there is a tree, and it is standing for thousands of years. Is not that punishment? If I tell Mr. such and such, "You stand up here for five hours," he'll become mad. That is a sort of punishment to the children. Formerly, the punishment was... The teacher, in the class, a naughty boy, he's asked, "Stand up on the bench." Therefore, half an hour to stand up on the bench becomes a very, very intolerable pain for him. So just imagine that the tree, this is punishment, standing in one place. I saw one tree in San Francisco; they say it is seven thousand years old.</p>
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<div id="Festival_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Lectures" text="Festival Lectures"><h3>Festival Lectures</h3>
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<div id="HisDivineGraceSrilaSaccidanandaBhaktivinodaThakurasAppearanceDayLectureLondonSeptember31971_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="30" link="His Divine Grace Srila Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Appearance Day, Lecture -- London, September 3, 1971" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Appearance Day, Lecture -- London, September 3, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Appearance Day, Lecture -- London, September 3, 1971|His Divine Grace Srila Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Appearance Day, Lecture -- London, September 3, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So, this Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was gṛhastha, very responsible officer, magistrate. And he was so exalted that he would come from his office generally at five o'clock, then take his supper and immediately go to bed. Immediately. Say at seven o'clock in the evening he goes to bed, and he wakes up at twelve o'clock. So suppose he goes to bed at seven o'clock in the evening and wakes up at twelve o'clock at night; it is sufficient sleep, five hours. One should not sleep more than five to six hours. Minimize as far as possible. The Gosvāmīs used to sleep not more than one and a half hour, or two hours. Sleeping is not very important thing. Even big politicians, they used to sleep for two hours. So especially in spiritual line, they should minimize as far as possible eating, sleeping, mating, defending. Minimize. Gradually it comes to nil.</p>
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<div id="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Lectures" text="Arrival Addresses and Talks"><h3>Arrival Addresses and Talks</h3>
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<div id="ArrivalLectureMexicoFebruary111975WithSpanishTranslator_0" class="quote" parent="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" book="Lec" index="17" link="Arrival Lecture -- Mexico, February 11, 1975, (With Spanish Translator)" link_text="Arrival Lecture -- Mexico, February 11, 1975, (With Spanish Translator)">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival Lecture -- Mexico, February 11, 1975, (With Spanish Translator)|Arrival Lecture -- Mexico, February 11, 1975, (With Spanish Translator)]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is very simple and easy. If you do not know, if you are not educated, if you have no asset, you can simply chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, and if you are educated, logician, philosopher, you can read our books, which are already in fifty in number. There will be about seventy-five books of four hundred pages to convince the philosopher, scientist, educationist what is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is published in English as well as in other European languages. Take advantage of it. Along with the Deity worship in this temple, hold classes at least five hours. As in the schools and colleges there are regular classes, forty-five minutes' class, then five or ten minutes' recess, again forty-five minutes' class, in this way, so we have got enough subject matter to study, and if we study all these books, to finish them it will take at least twenty-five years. So you are all young men. I request you to engage your time in reading books, in chanting, in Deity worshiping, in going to preach, selling books. Don't be lazy. Always remain engaged. Then that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="ClassinLosAngelesLosAngelesNovember151968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="30" link="Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968" link_text="Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968|Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One of my Godbrothers, some years ago, in 1935 he went to London, and Lord Zetland, Marquis of Zetland, Lord Ronaldsay... He was a Scotsman. I don't think whether he is living, but he was very interested in Indian philosophy. He was once governor of Bengal. In our childhood we saw him. He came to our college. So he inquired from this preacher, my Godbrother, that Bannerji, he was Mr. Bannerji, Goswami Bannerji: "Bannerji, can you make us brāhmaṇa?" Bannerji said, "Why not? Yes, we can make you brāhmaṇa. Then you have to follow the rules, these four principles of rules. Then you can become a brāhmaṇa." He said, "Oh, it is impossible." He said. You see? Such a big personality, he is interested in philosophy, he holds some position, responsible man, he flatly denied, "Oh, it is not possible to give up these habits." But our student, hundreds of students who are coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are giving up very easily. They don't feel any inconvenience. This is spṛśaty anarthāpagamo yad-arthaḥ. Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the first test is that in the beginning, from the very beginning, all misgivings will go on. Will go on. Our student can twenty-four hours sit down before a Deity and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Bring any student of any yoga society, let him sit down for five hours. He'll fail. They are so restless. Simply official fifteen minutes, half an hour, by closing the eyes and murmuring something, meditation. These boys are twenty-four hours engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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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="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1969 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1969 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MeetingwithDevoteesJune91969NewVrindaban_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="17" link="Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban" link_text="Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban|Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kīrtanānanda: We are done ārati and kīrtana by seven o'clock in the morning.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. Then the respective duty can be discharged in two, three hours. That's all. Seven to ten. After taking your breakfast you work up to ten. Then you have got enough time.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: Time for what?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everyone has to make his own routine work, and for chanting and reading and Bhagavad-gītā he requires, say, two to three hours. So we have got twenty-four hours at our disposal. Out of that, six hours or seven hours for sleeping. So still you have got seventeen hours. And three hours devote for chanting and reading. Still you have got fourteen hours.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: But we devote at least five hours to ārati and kīrtana.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh.</p>
<p>Satyabhāmā: Another hour and a half or two hours to prasādam.</p>
<p>Śyāma: Eating?</p>
<p>Satyabhāmā: Yes. To eating prasādam.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Two hours for eating?</p>
<p>Paramānanda: Eating and taking rest.</p>
<p>Satyabhāmā: Well, noon prasādam, morning prasādam, milk in the evening.</p>
<p>Paramānanda: Morning and evening, half hour, noon, one hour.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Bathing, bathing takes an hour.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you want to stop chanting and reading?</p>
<p>Satyabhāmā: No. No. (laughs)</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: We don't want to stop chanting. I don't want to. That's not the proposal. The proposal was...</p>
<p>Satyabhāmā: Which comes first? If... The work seems to have to be done, but the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can forego your sleeping and eating.</p>
<p>Satyabhāmā: Haribol.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The Gosvāmīs were doing like that. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau **. They were discharging their duties, and if sometimes they still could not finish the chanting, they would forego their eating and sleeping. Eating and sleeping, say, seven to nine hours. Then we have to sacrifice our sleeping and eating.</p>
<p>Paramānanda: But the Gosvāmīs, they didn't swing axes all day, did they?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. (chuckles)</p>
<p>Paramānanda: They didn't do hard physical work.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, they were writing books. So they were writing. You have to manage. You see? How can I suggest, "You can do this, you can do this"? Everyone has to do. Just like I do my work according to my own routine, you see, similarly, one has to... But if sometimes, by chance, you do not get any time for reading Bhagavad-gītā, that does not harm very much because you are already engaged in Bhagavad-gītā. Any duty here in New Vrindaban... Just like Kṛṣṇa was inducing Arjuna to fight. That fighting was also within the program of this devotional service. Similarly, anything working within this New Vrindaban, that is also counted reading Bhagavad-gītā. So in some day if you don't find, read Bhagavad-gītā, but that chanting must be finished. That is very essential.</p>
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<div id="MeetingwithDevoteesJune91969NewVrindaban_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="17" link="Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban" link_text="Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban|Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: Can one chant when working?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Why not? Chanting is the basic standing of our life.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: I think here, as I look at it, we're spending about five hours a day in ārati and kīrtana, which, I think, is really good because I think that is the heart of Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That is the life of Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: So I don't want to sacrifice that for anything.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That must be...</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: That must be there. That's the heart.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can forego even reading Bhagavad-gītā, but that must be continued.</p>
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<div id="DiscussionaboutNewVrindabanGurukulaDecember241969Boston_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="23" link="Discussion about New Vrindaban Gurukula -- December 24, 1969, Boston" link_text="Discussion about New Vrindaban Gurukula -- December 24, 1969, Boston">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Discussion about New Vrindaban Gurukula -- December 24, 1969, Boston|Discussion about New Vrindaban Gurukula -- December 24, 1969, Boston]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: Oh, I see. So from just very small they can keep Deities.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: Yes. As small as they want to.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: And you suggested... I have it written down somewhere. You suggested a certain number of hours for their school, about five hours or four hours a day.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Three hours in the morning, two hours in the evening. That's all. Not at a stretch. Morning, evening. And in the noon they should take their prasādam, take little rest.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Because our literatures are a little difficult to read...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. You have to make some suitable literature.</p>
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<div id="1970_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1970 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1970 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationDecember131970Indore_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="4" link="Room Conversation -- December 13, 1970, Indore" link_text="Room Conversation -- December 13, 1970, Indore">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 13, 1970, Indore|Room Conversation -- December 13, 1970, Indore]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is going on. (break) There may be musical performance but here it is by the pure devotees. That is different thing. Now, here don't you see in the Gītā Bhavan? When others perform kīrtana nobody takes part. And they cannot continue that kīrtana more than five minutes. But we can continue our kīrtana for five hours without any...</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: If we stayed there for five hours everyone would chant. (indistinct conversation)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. No, mahāmantra they can also do, but it will not be effective because they are not pure. Here is the secret. We have... Our devotees, they are anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ (Brs. 1.1.11), they have no other business than to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. They perform kīrtana to take something from Kṛṣṇa. Everyone goes to some dharma-saṁsthāna just to take something. But our proposition is to give everything for Kṛṣṇa and that is far different.</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Everyone is pleased with the devotees, everybody.</p>
<p>Guest (2) (Indian man): (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That when you do, I shall tell you. Now why do you waste your time in that way? That's all right, you are not doing so you have no business.</p>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationFebruary131974Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="20" link="Room Conversation -- February 13, 1974, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 13, 1974, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 13, 1974, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- February 13, 1974, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Tene brahma hṛdā, ādi-kavaye. Tene brahma. Brahma means before the creation. Aham evasam agre. Before creation Kṛṣṇa was there, and it was, the kṛṣṇa-bhakti was injected within the heart of Brahmā. (Hindi—break) ...three to four hours at night and one hour or one and half hour, altogether five hours. Gosvāmīs (Hindi) ...brahma-bhūtaḥ. Sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate ([[Vanisource:BG 14.26 (1972)|BG 14.26]]).</p>
<p>Dr. Kapoor: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bhagavaty uttama-śloke bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.18|SB 1.2.18]]). Uttama-śloke. Uttama (Hindi)</p>
<p>Dr. Kapoor: Minor accident with the bus (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadām (laughter) . Tat padma vipad. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣām ([[Vanisource:SB 10.14.58|SB 10.14.58]]).</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune211974Germany_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="126" link="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1974, Germany" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1974, Germany">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 21, 1974, Germany|Morning Walk -- June 21, 1974, Germany]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Most unnatural life. City life, most unnatural.</p>
<p>Professor Durckheim: Oh, there are many children, they have never seen a tree. (break) ...sleeping only very few hours.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not very few hours. Say, four, five hours altogether. Altogether. Maximum five, minimum four.</p>
<p>Professor Durckheim: All the night or do you at the day sometimes?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. At night I get up at one, at half past one, sometimes half past twelve. But I take a little rest, one or two hour in the daytime. So two hours at night, two hours at day, or three hours at night, two hours in day. In this way, altogether five hours, not more than that. Our predecessor gurus, Gosvāmīs, they were taking rest not more than two hours or 2-1/2 hours. So we should come to that standard, yes. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau **. About them this description is: they reduced their sleeping, nidra. Nidra means sleeping. And āhāra. Āhāra means eating and collection. Collection is also āhāra. Yes. So they were mendicant. They had no collection. And they had no preaching mission. They were simply writing books.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithPaterEmmanuelABenedictineMonkJune221974Germany_2" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="128" link="Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany" link_text="Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany|Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Umāpati (?): Prabhupāda didn't understand, accepting him in German.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No no. The answer I gave, you do not remember?</p>
<p>Umāpati: Because they are intelligent.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Any intelligent man will understand what is religion, what is God, in five minutes. It doesn't require even five hours. In five minutes.</p>
<p>Pater Emmanuel: Yes, I understand.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But we do not want to understand. That is the difficulty. Yes?</p>
<p>Guest: (German)</p>
<p>German devotee: He believes that to understand God is not a question of intelligence but it is a question of humility.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. "The humble and meek shall go to the kingdom of God." Is it not? It is Bible statement?</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationApril41976Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="66" link="Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- April 4, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, South Africa...?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: How many hours? It's about nine hours.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not much. Nearer than India. From India to Australia takes so many hours.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Five hours it was, from Bombay to Mauritius.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Five hours, again nine hours.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: And then it was about three hours to South Africa from Mauritius.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, from Mauritius they can go directly to Australia. No?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Direct to?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Australia.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril81976Mayapur_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="70" link="Morning Walk -- April 8, 1976, Mayapur" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 8, 1976, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 8, 1976, Mayapur|Morning Walk -- April 8, 1976, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The people that live in the cities think that the farmers work so hard.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And these rascals rise early in the morning and start their car to go to the office, five hours coming and going, and eight hours working there...</p>
<p>Lokanātha: Again in the evening they have to drive back. (break)</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: ...I saw that these big men, they were taking so many pep pills during the day to do their work, and in the evening they had to take tranquilizers to go to sleep.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, I have seen so, so many advertisements. One has to take at least five to six types of.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril241976Melbourne_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="86" link="Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne|Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guru-kṛpā: Thinks he's happy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Standing happily for five thousand years.</p>
<p>Guru-kṛpā: Drinking only water.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If you are asked to stand here for five hours, you'll feel most uncomfortable. But they are standing for five thousand years, no uncomfortable. This is punishment. Punishment is there, but unaware. So everyone is like that. Anyone in the material world, they are being punished in different degree, but unaware. That is māyā's grace, that although he is punished, he cannot understand.</p>
<p>Guru-kṛpā: So they answer that "If you're happy, then what's wrong with that?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that class you are here. You go on with that happiness. But we are not satisfied with this. You are rascal, you are happy in that way, but we are not. That is the difference between you and me.</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationJune101976LosAngeles_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="124" link="Garden Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles" link_text="Garden Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles|Garden Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, if you eat more, then you require more exercise to digest unnecessary loading, but if you eat simply, just to keep our body and soul together, you don't require exercise.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolfe: Well...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Little movement is going on, we are walking. But not this severe type of exercise as surfers and fighting with the sea waves for four hours, five hours, ten hours. (devotees laugh)</p>
<p>Dr. Wolfe: But Śrīla Prabhupāda, a kṣatriya has to be strong.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is a.... Kṣatriya is.... Generally...</p>
<p>Dr. Wolfe: And kṣatriyas have to be there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is especially meant for the brāhmaṇas, intelligent. Go on.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJuly171976NewYork_4" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="218" link="Room Conversation -- July 17, 1976, New York" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 17, 1976, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 17, 1976, New York|Room Conversation -- July 17, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man: Hundred miles north from here.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So by car?</p>
<p>Indian man: Yes, by car.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It will take about four, five hours.</p>
<p>Indian man: No, two and a half hours. Two and a half hours.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Traveling is little difficult for me. So there are many Indians?</p>
<p>Indian man: There are about hundred and fifty Indian people. Thirty percent of them are Ārya-samājīs. They don't believe in anyone except doing (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Second edition of Muhammadans.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationDecember121976Hyderabad_5" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="346" link="Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Haṁsadūta: Long Island.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Long Island.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Long Island. They are coming two hours in the ferry, three hours in the bus. They are going to the office. Eight hours there. Then five hours and eight hours, thirteen hours, again five hours. Then thirteen and..., eighteen hours. And for six hours they have got home. "Home sweet home."</p>
<p>Mahāṁśa: I knew people coming from Poona to Bombay to work.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just see.</p>
<p>Mahāṁśa: All the way from Poona.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The home attachment is so great. These Delhi passengers, they are coming, hanging, and there are so many accidents daily. And few hours he will live with wife. That is his home. And whole other, out of twenty-four hours, seventeen hours are outside, and maybe seven hours at home. But still, he'll come home. The home attachment is very big. Therefore we have to create attachment for this hari-saṅkīrtana. If you create that attachment, then they will give up home attachment, try life, to live here. Athāsaktiḥ. You have to train them in Kṛṣṇa consciousness in such a way.</p>
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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 id="MorningWalkJanuary81977Bombay_2" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="15" link="Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay|Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Patel: They feed on the filth. This is one difficulty. All people are mad after the cinema.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They will wait four hours, five hours, standing. Why cinema? I have seen in London the British Museum. Something came there. From morning there is a queue. Exactly like that, they were standing to go and see the museum. Something came. I... Three, four years ago I saw. They were standing. Just like here. For purchasing the cinema ticket they are standing and eating nampalli, just to see, eyesight. They will not come to see Deity in the temple. They'll not come. Mentality is different. It is a very dangerous civilization, soul-killing civilization. We should be very, very careful if we want success also. We shall go now? (end)</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJanuary91977Bombay_3" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="23" link="Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: When it is finished, then we'll take color pictures and send them in case you're still in India.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: By the month of...</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: It could be April. The grand opening, I think...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I may go there some time. From London to Los Angeles there is direct plane. Takes about ten hours, eh?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Ten hours at least. Los Angeles to New York is five and a half, and New York to London another five hours, six hours.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Or in this way, about twelve hours, via...</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Too long a flight, I think. It would be better... It's too long a flight.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That directly from London to... That is the same?</p>
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<div id="ConversationonTraintoAllahabadJanuary111977India_4" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="27" link="Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India" link_text="Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India|Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That depends on him. If he likes to eat that kind of food, you have no right to enforce upon him. Then you are going to enforce upon him. There are different persons; they like different types of food. And food must be according to his own taste. Aguru ohikhanna.(?)</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Only twice a day.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But if he likes twice a day, why you give thrice? That is his choice.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: And sleeping only four, five hours.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Very little.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because it is waste of time.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: This makes his mind very weak.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You rascal, you have nothing to do. You sleep. Napoleon used to sleep for one hour, two hour. He was such a busy man. So they are so busy in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they have no time to sleep. Every great man does not sleep very much. The lazy men... (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. (Hindi) Acchā. Sleeping is simply waste of time. So this is... If he does not sleep more, it is a sign of greatness.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationMarch11977Mayapura_5" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="113" link="Room Conversation -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: When the books fair opened?</p>
<p>Gargamuni: It opened on Friday.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, is there any time, every day?</p>
<p>Gargamuni: Yes. It starts... They open at one, but everyone comes around four-thirty, five, up through nine. So we get about five hours. In five hours we sold 850 books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Electric? Electricity they supply?</p>
<p>Gargamuni: Yes. They had a loudspeaker next to our stall. So this was hindering the film. And the manager, they wouldn't turn it down, you know, because so many people were being attracted, they wanted to stop us, so I gave some small bribe and made a man climb up and take it down, and now it's all right. (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is called how to do business, (laughter) natural instinct from his father.</p>
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<div id="ConversationPiecesMay271977Vrndavana_6" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="177" link="Conversation Pieces -- May 27, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Conversation Pieces -- May 27, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation Pieces -- May 27, 1977, Vrndavana|Conversation Pieces -- May 27, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So you're gonna have your massage now.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And the next group is coming out at three. That's nearly five hours from now. So I think that immediately we can have a meeting and discuss these points and immediately...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, discussion I have already given. You do this.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, I meant... And execute this.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All right, you do it. Don't delay. (break) Life is within the atom. Aṇḍāntara-stham. That life in due course of time, it comes out through the water. All of a sudden there is bubble coming down, coming down. That is the beginning of generation. What do you think, that? Jalajā. Kṣīṇe puṇye punaḥ martya-lokaṁ viśanti. They are elevated very high planetary system. Again, after reminiscing, they come down. That is described in the śāstra, fall down through rains. Again, like bubbles, come out. (break) Where? The bottom of the earth, giving life. That is already done. In favorable circumstances, due course of time, it comes out. (aside:) You keep. (break) Lots of money.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationOctober21977Vrndavana_7" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="236" link="Room Conversation -- October 2, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 2, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 2, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 2, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The other one stops once, I guess, but I'm not certain of the place. Between here and Bombay it makes one stop, so far I know. I'm not sure what is that stop. They're very popular trains. They run only about twice a week. But the train we were on was quite quick also. But not so quick as this. The train we were on took about twenty-two hours, Bombay-Delhi. But Rajdhani, I think, takes seventeen. It's about five hours faster.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are also very fast. No?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That one we were on?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationOctober101977Vrndavana_8" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="244" link="Room Conversation -- October 10, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 10, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 10, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 10, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: Because he is becoming friendly with the royal family. Actually he goes every day to the palace. They send a chauffeured Mercedes to pick him up every day. He spends four or five hours every day talking to the royal family.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is great opportunity.</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: It's the wealthiest family in the world, much more wealthy than Rockefeller.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He goes alone or with somebody else?</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationOctober311977Vrndavana_9" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="277" link="Room Conversation -- October 31, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 31, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 31, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 31, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All right. Temple without kīrtana doesn't have full life. Bhavānanda Mahārāja was just saying that this evening. The kīrtana party from Māyāpur, they went back today. Otherwise, every night they've been doing kīrtana for about five hours. Today they're not here because they're returning to Māyāpur. I was thinking today how you've always taken care of us so much and served us so much all of these years that now Kṛṣṇa is giving us a small little opportunity to just do a little service to you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How many men, they have come?</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationNovember101977Vrndavana_10" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="291" link="Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But not by bullock cart. That's when a man walks very quickly you can do it in two hours, but by bullock cart it will take five hours. We have... You had difficulty even doing a half-hour parikrama around this temple. You became very faint. Whether you think that you can go five hours in a row?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: From Mādhava Mahārāja's Maṭha, bring Kṛṣṇa dāsa Bābājī.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We should bring Kṛṣṇa dāsa Bābājī here? Okay.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And Indu.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationNovember101977Vrndavana_11" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="291" link="Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- November 10, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He's out again getting medicine. This man, Śrīla Prabhupāda, Adri-dhāraṇa says he sits up all night worried about you, thinking, taxing his mind how to give you just what you require.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Bhakti-caru: Yesterday, when I went to call him at 4:30, I saw him sitting on his bed.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All night. He goes in the jungle four, five hours looking for roots, herbs to give you. He's so sincere.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So many well-wishers, I cannot refuse. This is not my business. (Bengali) All right. You take Bābājī Mahārāja. That will be my going. (laughter)</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles1May1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="283" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far translating our literatures, if you simply send the matter, our press will immediately give you so many books. You can print books in small sizes and distribute them profusely. Small books like "Easy Journey to Other Planets" and "Isopanisad" will be very quickly sold more than the larger volumes of TLC and Srimad-Bhagavatam. So if Suridas and Umapati engage themselves five hours for translating work, there will be no difficulty to publish our French language books immediately. So arrange for this.</p>
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