Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...this city, this will be a small parade with some hand-pulled floats. Another trick of the Hare Kṛṣṇas.
Prabhupāda: Bali Mahārāja was asked for three feet of land. "Very good. You speak so nicely, such intelligent, but You are boy, You do not know how to ask. I can give You a big island." "No, I must be satisfied as I require. I don't want more. Only three feet, that's all."
Rāmeśvara: That story is in the Eighth Canto, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Hmm. I'm going now with that story. (break) "Rascal, if you give like that, where you will stay? He'll take everything!" Smārta brāhmaṇa. Simply considering "How I shall live?" (laughs)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Materialist.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What did Bali Mahārāja reply?
Prabhupāda: He rejected guru. "You are not guru."
Rāmeśvara: Śukrācārya.
Satsvarūpa: But that guru told him to worship Viṣṇu officially.
Prabhupāda: No, he was by nature Viṣṇu, Vaiṣṇava, like the grandfather, Prahlāda Mahārāja.
Satsvarūpa: But he was a demon.
Prabhupāda: Who?
Satsvarūpa: Born as a demon, in a demon family, not a demon.
Prabhupāda: Demon family. Viṣṇu-dveṣī(?). Still, they are kṣatriyas. Just like the Europeans and Americans, they were kṣatriyas, now they have become demons. Actually they are kṣatriyas. I have studied. And the Jews are vaiśyas. (laughter)
Rāmeśvara: The Jews are vaiśyas.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's why they call them the American Marwaris.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Yes. They know how to do business and earn money.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: A lot of your disciples are Jewish.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore they know how to make money.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They take up your idea of book distribution and they make all the money from it. (laughing)
Prabhupāda: Everything can be utilized for Kṛṣṇa. Prāṇair arthair dhiyā vacaḥ. (break)