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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="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 class="heading">His is a civilization of killing father and mother. All over the world they are killing bulls and cows. In England there is law that you can maintain a cow but you cannot maintain a bull. It must be killed. Yes. When I was a guest in John Lennon's house the manager in charge, he was telling me. "You cannot keep bull. This is our law." I learned from him.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 3, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 3, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Detroit, the temple.</p>
<p>Jagadīśa: Oh, yes, Detroit temple, yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And he was asking 350,000. So I told, "All right, you take cash, 300,000," and he immediately accepted, though I had not three paisa even in the bank. So immediately... The girl has paid?</p>
<p>Jagadīśa: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: She agreed to pay half and our Ambarīṣa agreed to pay half. It was purchased immediately.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Cash. And you only had three paisa. That means one who is servant of the richest, he also becomes rich. You always said, "Serving the greatest, you become great."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. A big man's son squanders money and the father pays. Similarly, if you become a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa, the father will spend for you. Why do you care wherefrom money comes?</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: Just like, Śrīla Prabhupāda, you had Dai Nippon print fifty thousand dollars in books in the beginning.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (chuckles) Yes. Yes. I gave him five thousand and I ordered him fifty-two thousand. And I told him, "The money will come." And he said that "Five thousand he is giving advance. Money will come." So they immediately published Kṛṣṇa book, forty thousand dollar worth.</p>
<p>Sudāmā: And they told me, Śrīla Prabhupāda, later, that that was the first time in the history of their company that they would ever make any such concession.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They told?</p>
<p>Sudāmā: Yes. Mr. Ogata and Mr. Kugimoto said, "Somehow by his... He is such a great man, His Divine Grace, somehow we accepted." They were surprised. Remember when he went?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They were mystified by you, Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: When I was coming back from America at that time, I came via Japan for this purpose. At that time you were in charge.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Your dealings with them were very memorable.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They said, "How we agreed?" (laughs) They were surprised.</p>
<p>Sudāmā: And whenever I would see the president... That one meeting you had with him... Whenever I would see the president after that, he would always ask me, "How is His Divine Grace? How is he feeling and where is he?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I challenged him, "You are Buddhist." "Yes." "You are eating meat?" "Yes." "What is this?" (laughs) That was my first talking with him.</p>
<p>Sudāmā: They were wanting to talk business for a long time. You were simply preaching to them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the Kazi. His first question was that "What kind of religion you are following? You are killing your father and mother?" This was His beginning of the talk. "What kind of religion it is?" "How is that? I am killing my father, mother?" "Yes, cow is your mother and bull is your father. You are killing them. The bull is giving you grains by working in the field, and the mother is giving you milk, and you are killing them." This was his first question. So this is a civilization of killing father and mother. All over the world they are killing bulls and cows. In England there is law that you can maintain a cow but you cannot maintain a bull. It must be killed. Yes. When I was a guest in John Lennon's house the manager in charge, he was telling me. "You cannot keep bull. This is our law." I learned from him.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Only for breeding purposes. Only for breeding. All the rest are killed.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is law in England? So you cannot keep even bull privately. Must be killed. This is the law.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is the reason for that law?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bull will not supply milk, so there is no use. It must be killed. Otherwise they are ferocious animal. You have made this law. The cows may be given some time to be killed, but the bulls should be killed immediately. This is their law.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Nor do the farmers actually want to keep them anyway.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: They are useless animals.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Simply expensive. But here in India they know how to utilize bulls—for transportation, for plowing and so many other things.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Such a shortage of fuel, but there is no shortage of fuel with a bull.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, rather, it will supply you gobar, fuel. Whatever he will eat, he will give you fuel.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In return.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In return.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: But now the government is trying to teach the people that they should buy tractors and kill the calves.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: They want to have..., make tractors popular and then...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kill the bulls. They were criticizing us because in our gośālā we maintain the male calves.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, when our Harikeśa was struck by a bull and he was taken in the hospital, the doctor was criticizing, "If you have killed the bulls, then this condition would not have come to you."</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Wow. Karma.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. There will be no accident because this..., the acci...You know that?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I heard about the accident.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There was some accident, and he was taken to hospital. So he was advised, "Because you do not kill the bulls, therefore this is the accident." As if without killing..., by killing the bulls there is no accident. And they do not cite the accident by motorcar, greater bulls. Accident will be there.</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Yesterday we planted paddy, paddy field.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh. That's nice. But this is going to be a lawn?</p>
<p>Jayapatākā: Yes. It will have flower bushes and tulasī around after the construction. The botanical director suggested that on the one end we make a little arbor type covering of vine that Your Divine Grace could sit there and give lecture from there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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