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<div class="heading">The other day I was reading in the, that paper, Moscow News, there was a congress, Communist congress, and the president declared that "We are ready to get others' experience to improve." So I think the Vedic concept of socialism or communism will much improve the idea of communism. Just like we are thinking in terms of human beings, the commu..., socialistic state, that "Nobody should starve. Everyone must have his food." And in the Vedic conception of gṛhastha, householder, it is recommended there that a householder shall see that even a lizard living in the room or even a snake living in that house should not starve.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow|Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Prabhupāda: Modern sociology is targeting the state or the people as the owner of a certain state, but our Vedic conception is ''īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ'' ([[Vanisource:ISO 1|ISO 1]]): "Everything is owned by Īśa, the Supreme Controller." ''Tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā'': "What is given by Him, allotted to you, you enjoy that." ''Mā gṛdhaḥ kasya svid dhanam'': "Do not encroach upon others' property." This is ''Īśopaniṣad'', ''Vedas''. And the same idea is explained in different ''Purāṇas''.

So the ''Vedas'' can give you . . . the other day I was reading in the . . . that paper, ''Moscow News'', there was a Congress, Communist Congress, and the president declared that "We are ready to get others' experience to improve." So I think the Vedic concept of socialism or communism will much improve the idea of Communism.

Just like we are thinking in terms of human beings, the commu . . . socialistic state, that "Nobody should starve. Everyone must have his food." And in the Vedic conception of ''gṛhastha'', householder, it is recommended there that a householder shall see that even a lizard living in the room or even a snake living in that house should not starve.

They should be also given food. And what to speak of others? The ''gṛhastha'', before taking his lunch, he is recommended to stand on the road and declare that "If anybody is still hungry, please come. Food is ready." Then, if there is no response, then the proprietor of the household life, he takes his lunch.

In this way there are so many good concept about this socialistic idea of communism. So I thought that these ideas might have been distributed to some of your thoughtful men. Therefore I was anxious to speak with you.

Prof. Kotovsky: Yes, you know what is interesting . . . as it is here in our country, with our great interest in the history of old, old God, from this point of view our institute translated into Russian and published many, I must say, literary monuments of great Indian culture. I will have a pleasure to present you a copy of a booklet which was written here by me and my colleagues. It's account of Soviet studies of India. And here there is chapter, chapter second, "Studies of Ancient Indian Texts in the USSR . . ."

You'll be interested to discover we published not all, but some, some in exceptions, ''Purāṇas'', we published . . . (indistinct) . . . of them; then some parts of ''Rāmāyaṇa'', eight volumes in Russian, ''Mahābhārata''. We have also second edition of ''Mahābhārata'', translated by different people. ''Kabukare Artha-śāstra'' also was translated in full and published.

''Manu-smṛti'' also translated in full and published with Sanskrit commentaries. And such is a great interest, I think that all these publication was sold in a week. Now quite completely out of stock, this. It was impossible to get them in book market after month, such a great interest among reading people here in Moscow and the USSR towards ancient Indian culture. And from this point of view we published, I must say, a lot of things, a lot of things.

Prabhupāda: Now, amongst these ''Purāṇas'', the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' is called the ''Mahā-purāṇa''.

Prof. Kotovsky: ''Mahā-purāṇa''.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So we have translated in English the full, with the original Sanskrit text, its transliteration, an English equivalent for each word, then translation, and then purport, explanation of the verse. In this way there are 18,000s of verses in ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam''.

And the ''ācāryas'', the great saintly sages who are the preachers of this ''Bhāgavatam'' throughout India, their opinion is that it is the ripened fruit of the Vedic desire tree. ''Nigama-kalpa-taror galitaṁ phalaṁ idam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.3|SB 1.1.3]]). And it is accepted by all, I mean, Indian scholars, and especially Lord Caitanya, He preached this ''Bhāgavata''. So we have got that, complete, in English translation. If you want to see some of them, we can show you.