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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1972]]
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<div class="heading">Yes. Max Linder, I remember, he was sitting in a park. (laughter) You know that?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London|Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: Pradyumna didn't take rest last night, I don't think.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Pradyumna... Nanda Kumāra was sleeping.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): Charlie Chaplin kept us up all night.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): Charlie Chaplin kept us up all night. (laughs) Charlie Chaplin show.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm. That was nice. (laughter) He is really funny man. (laughs) He has got originality. All his comic play has got some originality, that is the beauty. How he invented! (laughs) I think that character, when he was a drunkard, he was a great friend, (laughs) and when he's not drunkard, "Who is this man?" (laughs) He's grave(?) as rich man. And as drunkard, "You pay. You are my friend, life-long friend. Whatever you want, you take." (laughs) So these characters he's painting, it's very good intelligence. And he made him friend when he was going to commit suicide.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Yeah, he stopped him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He stopped him. Accidentally he stopped. (laughs) Not willingly.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): Yes. He tried to pull him up from the water, he went in himself.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is very nice, funny man with intelligence. And before him there was another, Mr. Max Linder.</p>
<p>Devotee: Max Linder.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. He was also very funny Englishman. In our childhood we used to enjoy their play, Max Linder and Chaplin, or Charlie Chaplin.</p>
<p>Devotee: They were showing them in India?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Uh? Yes. Max Linder, I remember, he was sitting in a park. (laughter) You know that?</p>
<p>Devotee: I don't know anything about it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He was sitting in a park, so that English dress, that tail coat? What is called?</p>
<p>Devotee: Coattails, yeah.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So the tail was hanging, so some naughty boys, they fixed up nails, you see? So when he got up, the whole tail gone, you see? But he could not understand. He went to the ball dance. So he's dancing, so everyone's seeing his tail, in this way. So he thought, "Oh, what is the matter?" He went to the mirror and he saw, "Oh, my tail is lost." (laughs) Then he came again in the ball dance and he was pushing everyone, just to show. And everyone was asking, "What is this? What is this?" "Oh, you do not know? This is latest fashion. This is latest fashion." Then all of them cut the tails. I think he had taken the idea, (Sanskrit). This is Sanskrit story, that (Sanskrit), or monkey, he lost his tail, and he began to advertise, "This is the latest fashion." So that ball-dancing without tail, that was, I remember, it is very enjoyable. They say that Charlie Chaplin is the student of Max Linder. He learned this funny play from Max Linder. So I knew Charlie Chaplin is an Englishman.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes, he is.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He is Englishman.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): He went to America and then he made all these films.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Devotee: He went to America and he made a lot of money there.</p>
<p>Indian: As far as I know, Prabhupāda, he was Jew, but he used to live in east of London, or south of London. There is an autobiography about it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Max Linder, ah, Charlie Chaplin? Yes. He was a London man.</p>
<p>Devotee: But that movie was filmed in Los Angeles, the one we saw last night. In Hollywood. All the palm trees and the (indistinct) behind.</p>
<p>Indian (Ksirodaksayi?): One of the elder sons, he's still living in Hampstead Heath.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, his eldest son. And where he is, Charlie Chaplin?</p>
<p>Devotee: In America.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In America?</p>
<p>Devotee: He's in Switzerland.</p>
<p>Indian: No, no, he lives in Europe somewhere. Switzerland, most... Sometimes coming in Hampstead Heath.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He has got a big family?</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You said that he's producing a still child?</p>
<p>Devotee: Yeah, he produced last year, or two years ago. It was in Life magazine.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm. (pause)</p>
<p>Devotee: It's already about 10:30.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All right.</p>
<p>Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. (devotees leave)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So ask Pradyumna if he wants to give.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yeah. (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...viṣaya chāḍiyā. Oh, yes, then it is (indistinct). Viṣaya chāḍiyā, se rase majiyā mukhe bolo hari hari, parama karuṇa, pahū dui jana. But even if we do speculation business and do it for Kṛṣṇa, that is not good.</p>
<p>Devotee: Not so high a class.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are doing little business because gṛhasthas, they require money. All right, do some incense, this, that. Not very big business. If one is expert like Arjuna or Ambarīṣa Mahārāja, that is different thing. Just like this Advaita, he was given in press. Now he sees that "I can work anywhere I want, so I can get money. Why I should waste my time?" He neglected. That means viṣaya attracted him. He thought, "I am qualified boy. Why I should waste my time with this press?" Therefore he went away. He sacrificed Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and now he's getting some money he's satisfied. He's thinking that he has become a big man.</p>
<p>Devotee: Ātreya Ṛṣi went to see them in New York the last day, but they wouldn't come.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Both, (indistinct).</p>
<p>Devotee: Yeah.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are getting money from other karmīs, so why they should come? They are thinking that "As family man we must make money." Ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair , huh? House, land, children, friends, money for increasing their illusion. Janasya moho 'yam ahaṁ mameti ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.8|SB 5.5.8]]). (indistinct) He does not know that he is being finished, and he's thinking that "I am making profit." Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāta. This rascal, he's being defeated. He does not know. He got the chance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness; he sacrificed Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And he is attracted by little pounds, dollars. (pause) But his wife is good, Balai dāsī. She is coming.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes, she came to maṅgala-ārati.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: She comes, and she said, "Then we live separately, Advaita." He doesn't like. He's such a rascal. Such a nice, good, beautiful wife, and he's neglecting. (sounds of Prabhupāda taking prasādam) Milk, here they take cold milk, and they (makes sounds of glug-glug-glug drinking). No. Milk should be hot, and it should be taken little.</p>
<p>Devotee: Hm.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the way of taking milk. And this masala, it does not taste good. In India, especially in Northern India, Punjab, they will take at night, milk, (indistinct). No other things. They, all business men, the Marwari society, they'll take food before evening and then again they work. Then after ten they will come home and take little milk and go rest. (pause) So foundation committee is being established in Bombay making her the president of the trust. Then Giriraja will have no difficulty.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yeah.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They'll contribute. And if she canvasses, she can collect lakhs.</p>
<p>Devotee: But one thing is, if Giriraja takes advantage and begins preaching in her school daily... She's invited him, open invitation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Then it will be pleased.</p>
<p>Devotee: Then when she'll see her students improve, then she'll give us all help.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Now we have got land, many people will contribute materials. Materials, we can get materials from many big, big merchants.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yeah, like, ah, Tarachand.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Cement, iron, they will.. "All right. Give it." Goods, anyone will give.</p>
<p>Devotee: Tarachand Gupta, I think his name is.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He is also our life member. He is nice.</p>
<p>Devotee: Iron merchant.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He wanted to invite me one day. He met me on the park. Do you remember?</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes, I remember.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's one of the richest men.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes. I think when you go back there the next year, or next autumn...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now we have created some impression that we are doing something nice. Even Keating is also impressed.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yeah. We're not wandering from village to village anymore. We're settled.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Even we wander from village to village, people are being impressed that we are doing something good. Actually it is so. I tell you it is so. One who cannot understand it, he is a fool. Actually we are doing the best work, God consciousness. And actually it is a fact: simply for want of God consciousness they are suffering, that's all. There is no other reason. The only reason is this. Just like this morning I said, "God is the proprietor. Why you are claiming proprietor? You may be manager, not proprietor." Actually that is our position. Just like I am head of this institution, but I am not dealing as proprietor. I am dealing as manager, head. Is it not?</p>
<p>Devotee: This is the only society where Kṛṣṇa is the owner of everything.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And all my assistants, they are also working in that capacity. If I would have been proprietor, then they would not have been interested.</p>
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