Prabhupāda: One gentleman, he was Harendranatha Singh, very rich man, one of the richest men of Calcutta. He lost all his estate simply by this extravagance. Every evening his house is full with guest, every evening, for . . . what is called? That table?
Girirāja: Billiards?
Prabhupāda: Billiard. Billiard-playing or some exhibition of singing, and hundreds of men will gather. And they were feasting, first-class food. In this way spending, spending, spending. And then prostitute, aristocracy. In this way one property after one property lost, everything. And at last I saw him going by rickshaw. One day it was raining, and I saw that he was sitting in a rickshaw, and no friend asked him that "Haren Babu, why you are . . .? You come to my car." So many. And he was friendly to so many zamindars, kings, and very intimately. But they lost of everything, and nobody cares. His sons, they are of our age. I do not know whether living or not; but most probably they are not living. They became professional singers, coming of such aristocratic father. His father, that Mr. R. N. Singh, was a very good singer. That also was another aristocratic, that aristocrat family—art, some art: painter, singer, poets. Just like Rabindranath Tagore, they became famous as artist. Abanindranath Thakur, he became famous as artist, and Rabindranath Tagore became . . . they also followed the aristocratic family, Calcutta. Similarly, this R. N. Singh became a singer. Because they are rich men, they have nothing to do, so . . . and nobody instructed them how to become saintly person. Simply debauchery and . . . (break) On the whole, the whole human civilization is; and all the directors, they are not giving chance to know the value of life and how to conduct life. It is the first time, that we are giving the real idea of life. Otherwise whole world is in darkness. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatim (SB 7.5.31). They do not know what is the end of life. Adānta . . . matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 7.5.30), Vyāsadeva's real contribution . . . ajānataḥ, lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām (SB 1.7.6). He has given the right direction.