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Guru Maharaja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that "You are sitting? Get down." No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down: Difference between revisions

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<div class="heading">Guru Mahārāja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that "You are sitting? Get down." No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down. So then I began to sit down. Neither Guru Mahārāja told me, neither anybody told me.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 10, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 10, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Oh, the Navadvīpa gosvāmīs. They raised 25,000 rupees and wanted to bribe this police officer that "You take this money. We shall finish him. Don't take any action."</p>
 
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But the policeman said?</p>
 
<p>Prabhupāda: Refused. "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases."</p>
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<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Why?</p>
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<p>Prabhupāda: "He's a saintly person. We cannot agree to that." Everyone knows police takes bribe. They admit, "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases." This was told by Guru Mahārāja, Bhaktisi..., to me. He was talking many things confidential.</p>
Prabhupāda: Oh, the Navadvīpa gosvāmīs. They raised 25,000 rupees and wanted to bribe this police officer that "You take this money. We shall finish him. Don't take any action."
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda, what is that story that one time Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī was invited to... He wanted to get invitation or he was invited to speak and they put so many conditions on his speaking. It was some place.</p>
 
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But the policeman said . . .?
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They said, "Now you cannot speak on such and such subject." He agreed, "All right."</p>
 
<p>Prabhupāda: I think there was a Vaiṣṇava meeting inaugurated by Mahārāja Maṇīndrānandī. You are referring to that. (break) When I was visiting, I used to sit on his couch. Yes, like... Guru Mahārāja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that "You are sitting? Get down." No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down. So then I began to sit down. Neither Guru Mahārāja told me, neither anybody told me.</p>
Prabhupāda: Refused. "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases."
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What kind of a... It was a regular couch...</p>
 
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Why?
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...or a cauki?</p>
 
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Not cauki, couch. That padded couch, bench.</p>
Prabhupāda: "He's a saintly person. We cannot agree to that." Everyone knows police takes bribe. They admit, "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases." This was told by Guru Mahārāja, Bhaktisi . . . to me. He was talking many things confidential.
 
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, but what is that story that one time Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī was invited to . . . He wanted to get invitation or he was invited to speak, and they put so many conditions on his speaking. It was some place.
 
Prabhupāda: Yes.
 
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They said, "Now you cannot speak on such and such subject." He agreed, "All right."
 
Prabhupāda: I think there was a Vaiṣṇava meeting inaugurated by Mahārāja Maṇīndrānandī. You are referring to that. (break) When I was visiting, I used to sit on his couch. Yes, like . . . Guru Mahārāja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that "You are sitting? Get down." No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down. So then I began to sit down. Neither Guru Mahārāja told me, neither anybody told me.
 
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What kind of a . . . It was a regular couch . . .
 
Prabhupāda: Yes.
 
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . .or a ''cauki''?
 
Prabhupāda: Yes. Not ''cauki''; couch. That padded couch, bench.</p>
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"Guru Mahārāja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that" |"No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Guru Mahārāja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that "You are sitting? Get down." No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down. So then I began to sit down. Neither Guru Mahārāja told me, neither anybody told me.


Morning Walk -- February 10, 1976, Mayapura:

Prabhupāda: Oh, the Navadvīpa gosvāmīs. They raised 25,000 rupees and wanted to bribe this police officer that "You take this money. We shall finish him. Don't take any action."

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But the policeman said . . .?

Prabhupāda: Refused. "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases."

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Why?

Prabhupāda: "He's a saintly person. We cannot agree to that." Everyone knows police takes bribe. They admit, "Yes, we take bribe, but not in such cases." This was told by Guru Mahārāja, Bhaktisi . . . to me. He was talking many things confidential.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, but what is that story that one time Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī was invited to . . . He wanted to get invitation or he was invited to speak, and they put so many conditions on his speaking. It was some place.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They said, "Now you cannot speak on such and such subject." He agreed, "All right."

Prabhupāda: I think there was a Vaiṣṇava meeting inaugurated by Mahārāja Maṇīndrānandī. You are referring to that. (break) When I was visiting, I used to sit on his couch. Yes, like . . . Guru Mahārāja was sitting on the couch, so I took him as ordinary gentleman. So then nobody asked me that, that "You are sitting? Get down." No. Nobody asked me. Then I was seeing that all other big, big disciples, they are sitting down. So then I began to sit down. Neither Guru Mahārāja told me, neither anybody told me.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What kind of a . . . It was a regular couch . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . .or a cauki?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Not cauki; couch. That padded couch, bench.

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