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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... Politics, Government]]
[[Category:Questions From... Public Officials]]
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Yes. They have already opened some factory. One factory is there in Mathurā, in... What is? Who preserve the fruits in cans, what they are called?... Cannery? Anyway, so when they boil this onion, up to ten miles the good smell spread. (laughter) You see? And the whole atmosphere of Vṛndāvana is spoiled. Similarly, they are trying to refine oil, and the refuse will be thrown in the Yamunā. So the river Yamunā will be spoiled. Nobody will go to take bath.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Canadian Ambassador to Iran -- March 13, 1975, Iran|Room Conversation with Canadian Ambassador to Iran -- March 13, 1975, Iran]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ambassador: Well, I am very happy to have had this chance to be with you. How long will you be here?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda" :Two days.</p>
<p>Ambassador: That's all. And then?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I am going to India. We have to hold the Lord Caitanya's birthday anniversary. And open our Vṛndāvana temple. In Bombay we have got very nice land purchased, and the government will not give us sanction for the temple. The... I approached the Maharastra governor through another friend governor. The governor of Uttar Pradesh, he is my friend. So I explained to him, "This this is the position. You request the governor to give me sanction." So he has very ardently requested, explaining the whole thing about my position, my... He is member of this movement, and still, he is neglecting. He has said no. Yet... But no answer.</p>
<p>Ambassador: You know, when I had Mr. Trudeau, our prime minister, visiting India in '71, first place I took him was Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who?</p>
<p>Ambassador: Our prime minister of Canada, Mr. Trudeau.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh.</p>
<p>Ambassador: So we went the first place...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Vṛndāvana temple.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In Vṛndāvana still there is little glimpse of spiritual ideas in India. But the government is trying to spoil this place also. Starting oil refinery.</p>
<p>Ambassador: In Vṛndāvana?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Ambassador: And that in the name of progress. (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. They have already opened some factory. One factory is there in Mathurā, in... What is? Who preserve the fruits in cans, what they are called?</p>
<p>Parivrājakācārya: Cannery.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Cannery? Anyway, so when they boil this onion, up to ten miles the good smell spread. (laughter) You see? And the whole atmosphere of Vṛndāvana is spoiled. Similarly, they are trying to refine oil, and the refuse will be thrown in the Yamunā. So the river Yamunā will be spoiled. Nobody will go to take bath. This is Indian government's policy. They think that this so-called spiritual fanaticism of India is the cause of India's material degradation. So this must be killed. Like the Russians.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Um hm. I know they think that sometimes. Even here there are people who think that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, they are thinking like that? But I heard that the king is very pious.</p>
<p>Ambassador: One of the big people here, I said to him—after I argued about this for hours—I said, "You are Western and I am Eastern, not the other way around." (laughs) Thank you very much. I shall take your leave?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So, give him prasāda. Give him the whole plate. (laughs) You can take whole plate. So I am very glad to see you.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Yes. And she was hoping to come later, but if you're only going to be here two days I don't know whether she will...</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: We're leaving the 15th, evening of the 15th.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Yes, but this is the 13th now. I will take this to her. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you very much for your coming. Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Jaya. (Ambassador apparently leaves) (break) (end)</p>
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