Prabhupāda: A patient is thinking, "How shall I dance when I become healthy?" First of all, rascal, become healthy, then talk of all this. The rascals are thinking like that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's a good example.
Prabhupāda: You are patient; first of all cure your disease, material disease. Then talk of all this. Utopian. "When I will get rich, how I shall treat . . . I shall . . . then my wife is disobedient and I shall kick her like this," (laughter) and as soon as he kicked on the earthen pots, all broken. Then he, "Oh, then my . . . all prospects have gone." You know this story?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What was in the pot?
Prabhupāda: That . . . a potter, potter boy, he had got some earthen pots, selling. So he was dreaming that, "By selling this earthen pot, I'll make so much profit. Then I shall purchase another batch, I shall make profit. In this way, I shall be millionaire. Then I shall marry, and my wife must be very obedient. Otherwise I shall kick." So in this way, he kicked over the pots (laughs) and all of them broken.
Rāmeśvara: And in the end, nothing.
Prabhupāda: That's all.
Hari-śauri: So by his dreaming he, he . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, first of all be rich man, then do all things, how you shall kick your wife. This is going on. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that "My Guru Mahārāja found Me rascal number one—therefore he ordered, 'You cannot study Vedānta. You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.' " They will not read this portion. That Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He posed Himself as a rascal.