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- About the apartment (these are one gentleman came to talk with me?)?
- All the basic questions are asked, "What is life? What is this?" So many things
- Always a different color though (the sea). Always a little different isn't it?
- Am I keeping you too long now?
- And green (eucalyptus twigs). And as thick as the finger?
- And health card (shall I take it)?
- And lot of people (in Bombay, Juhu Beach) can see you. And they bow down to you?
- And then, then, then I want to make you talk. What will I do?
- And what about desires?
- And what is the fourth?
- And what is the gain?
- And where did you sleep? Was there a bed (I was paying seventy-two dollars a month)?
- And you had one house near (the Los Angeles black quarter temple)?
- Another question I have is, if materialism is not so important as the...?
- Anxiety for one's self is maya?
- Anything else you would like tonight?
- Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?
- Are there not things about which in the mortal life one can have no clear idea?
- Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show?
- Are we closer to this practicality when we sleep (when you engage your physical senses in the service of the Lord, then the physical quality of the senses will be diminished or gone, your spiritual sense activities will begin. This is practical)?
- At that time (end of the day of Brahma. End of fourteen Manus) is the earth destroyed, or is it simply covered by water?
- At the end of Manu's day, when there is flood (the whole thing would be filled up with water. So water course is very heavy. So it can turn even big, big rocks, mountains rolling)?
- Avaroha process?
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- Bada? That means?
- Because they are materialists, so whether they live or die does not affect anything so much. But because you are a great transcendentalist, your presence means that so many thousands of people can be saved. How are you feeling, Srila Prabhupada?
- Because they promise something they don't deliver (the so-called religion, so-called economic development, so-called sense gratification, so-called liberation, they're all cheating)?
- Because you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your satisfaction
- Before I leave, can they just stand here and have darsana and then we go? Can they come in?... My sister and my brother-in-law.
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust (and different name, you can purchase)?
- Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust, or Charitable Trust? Which do you prefer, Srila Prabhupada?
- Bijam, seed, "I am the seed of all existence" (Plato uses the word "idea" in order to denote a subject's primordial existence, or maybe it's archetype. I think that Krsna uses the word bijam)?
- Billiards (What is called? That table?)?
- Black is beautiful?
- Bol, Srila Prabhupada?… Soda water?
- Brain of who (the brain of Einstein)?
- Brainwash, accha. How you entered in their hearts?
- Brainwashing (to define brainwashing)?
- But can they not come at the function?... He says some friends are coming at some time, so can you meet them? We can just go back and if you want to walk or something?
- But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality (in future, everyone may fall and everyone may become elevated. But we have to take his present situation, what he is at present)?
- But do the results of an idea have to be predictable?
- But he (Gandhi) did not accept any post, you know that? At the same time...,
- But if there's anything that you feel that you want to ask me or...?
- But is there something else that you may know or that you may feel that you may be able to say that would assist us in a reduction less than the ideal?
- But maybe he's taken (he's not sannyasi, he is householder), I don't know, I thought he had a danda, one of those staffs. I saw the little temple in the garden, Krsna and Radha, where they stay in bed. It's like a bed like this. You know the one?
- But most people are materialistically minded, aren't they? There's very few that aren't
- But that would be the same if I could see a picture of you or I could see a...?
- But what is the breaking of the pot (you take one pot and you take water. The water is there, but if you break this pot, the water comes and mixes with)?
- But what was your experience of that saksaska?
- But where can I stay in the night?
- But who is to say... what is a perfect experience?
- But why existence of all these things (I have already said that we have got our imperfect senses. We cannot understand. But we have to understand from a person who has got perfect knowledge)?
- But why the samudra changes (phenomena is changeable, always changing. Just like this samudra - sometimes here, sometimes there)? We go into there, into deep depth of that...
- But you can improve it (this world)?
- But you know Aldridge?
- By brain what do you mean?
- By our desires we are pulled?
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- Cadillac (first-class car must go to India)?
- Call the sannyasis (to discuss about our preaching work)?
- Can I get a copy (from the recorded tape) from you?
- Can we assume that energy itself, all three types of energy, are related to life?
- Can we get one picture of the group?
- Can we purchase the house (take to farming for supporting yourself) for our own staying?
- Can you explain to us what time is?
- Can you make them (the people) reasonable? If they're unreasonable, is there some way to make them reasonable?
- Can you take inside? Is it allowed (I wanted both of you to take various detailed photographs of that Capitol)?
- Could I ask please, if prana is the life force, isn't it? Is it the prana is the life force, isn't it?
- Could you repeat that, Srila Prabhupada? I want to record it
- Cow dung chip is called kandi?
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- Defense (so material things, viṣaya, simply increasing the method of eating, sleeping, sex life and defense. This is material activity)?
- Did you get some barley flour?
- Did you have to go there (to Dr. Mishra's apartment) to bathe also?
- Did you want to go out into the garden tonight or not?
- Do ghosts refer to categories of ghosts or particular famous?
- Do I think it (one should only endeavor to go back to Godhead. That should be the mission of everyone's life." So this is our mission. We are propagating this) is all right? Well, it's a point of view
- Do the car companies make bicycles?
- Do they have any temples of Lord Jagannatha there? They have any temples of Lord Jagannatha in Kuruksetra?
- Do we consider ivory as something pure or impure?
- Do you believe in these (Hindi) and everything?
- Do you deal in percentages?
- Do you feel like going on? I don't think I'm going to write these now. I'm just going to use this tape. When I go over a scene I'll just play it back. It's too much to write
- Do you give him permission to come visit you ("...with your permission we would like to come and visit you sometime later this year, as it has now been so long since I have had your personal association")?
- Do you have that photograph? I'll show you
- Do you need a car, Swamiji?
- Do you think that we should make these marble here, on the side?
- Do you want these (cotton swabs)?
- Do you want to go further, Srila Prabhupada?
- Do you want to hear the next letter?
- Do you want to know more about the conference?
- Do you want to walk?
- Don't what, Prabhupada?
- Don't you think the people are lazy also?
- Down the fall (ice, flood, every second)?
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- English car, Prabhupada?
- Eternal life (explain to them about eternal life)?
- Every stone has life?
- Everybody is concerned with peace. Do people like Guruji, because they're such rascals... Like Guruji, this young boy, do they constitute a threat to peacefulness in society?
- Everything comes down to just another form of energy, another form of complexity, so that everything is suited to one thing and yet it's different?
- Excuse me ((one should pray, is that so?) that is his business)?
- Excuse me (because I take the version of the greatest scientist, therefore I am greatest scientist. I may be fool personally, but because I take the knowledge from the greatest scientist, I am greatest scientist. I have no difficulty)?
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- Finished with urine, Srila Prabhupada?
- Finished, Srila Prabhupada?
- Fire? Fire, disease and debts (agni, vyadhi, disease. And ṛṇa, debts. You should not neglect it. You should finish it)
- For being in the Mohammedan service (these Mulliks they are also De. Their original title is De. This Mullik is their title)?
- Four times? That's all right. Three times around, into the temple, and one more time. That will be nice. Four times. Is that all right? Will that be all right, Srila Prabhupada?
- Four what (purchase at least four vehicles), Srila Prabhupada?
- From a distance (I saw (snow) in Kashmir, but that was not so white)?
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- Have you ever continued the correspondence with that heart surgeon?
- Have you got books on the use of flick knives, like your brother-in-law's there?
- Have you got them here?
- He (someone) has what?
- He (the psychologist) didn't become angry (he is a good boy. Although I say, "You do not know anything")?
- He asked a question about... In Latin America there's much belief or superstition in this so-called lost city of Atlantis. It's very famous all around the western world that there was a lost civilization called Atlantis. It fell down into the ocean?
- He has a very good cook. That day I don't know how he ran away, or... You striked him, no?
- He is taking over there, you take here?
- Her question was, "Is your physical place important, surroundings"?
- Here too, in this country also, they're making butter from stool?
- Here, Srila Prabhupada. Can you give me the verse (sa te 'ham yogah proktah puratanah. Puratanah. Find out)?
- Hindu College (is that St. Julia's College a Hindu College)?
- How are others doing?
- How are these conditions going to change (material condition is the four principles of bodily demands: eating, sleeping, sex and defense)?
- How are we going to fare in this court case?
- How can darkness argue with the sunlight? Their trying to argue is just like darkness trying to argue with the sunlight (they said, "Everyone has a father, so who's God's father?")
- How come a lotus flower is so great?
- How do we explain that (I was telling my colleague that stratus, the layers so perfect that everywhere, say five inches, just like it appears somebody has laid down)?
- How do you classify dreams?
- How do you determine what's an obstacle?
- How do you like them (the ratha carts), Prabhupada?... Strong? Strong enough?
- How far can a bullock cart travel in one day?
- How is it that I cannot explain my position (I can explain Krsna consciousness, but you cannot explain nirvana. That is the difficulty. I can explain my position but you cannot explain your position)?
- How is it that some men have no conception of God?
- How it is? It's a line for a kite, and it's wound upon on a stick, and to make the kite go higher you unleash...?
- How many days (you can go from Calcutta to Agra, nice road. And from Agra to Bombay)? Two days?
- How shall I speak? Shall I beat your body?
- How should I satisfy them for the desire for a fire, as Jagadisa was saying?
- How to from sa guna I do not know?
- How to live in such a way where there is no dearth of thing as well as there is no continuing of that need that a man becomes lost?
- How to stop it then (they accept any rascal as God)?
- How's that now (the persons in the jail are thinking "These people are not working for life in the jail," so they don't understand what we are doing)?
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- I don't know if I'm understanding your desires about all of these points (regarding Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity)?
- I don't know. I was thinking the trip.... We have that big Mercedes limousine. You rode in it last year. It was very comfortable, and the ride, I don't think you found it so difficult, did you? Last year
- I don't want you to be disturbed about it (some of the sannyasis and GBC's are choosing to go to Bhagatji's. But the conference people who are involved, they are all at the (science) conference). So should I go or not go, Srila Prabhupada, to Bhagatji's?
- I have a photograph. Should I bring it?
- I mean, what is the idea in "Even if it goes slowly, it must begin"(so let them begin the foundation… Let it go on slowly, but it must begin)?
- I should be very glad to know where I should go for my second trip. If you could inform me?
- I think we are of one of those four categories (catur-vidha bhajante mam). Or we are also mudha?
- I want to know what it means, "If you touch the element, then you can be healed"
- I will speak for the while, huh?
- I'll give him the fruits now, Srila Prabhupada? I have some fruits. I can give him now (give facility for him, ten rupees... And some fruits… Uncut, yes)?
- If he can do that (get a visa and then go right back in), is that best?
- If I am satisfied? Can I rely that much on myself?
- If I like everything you're saying, then why shouldn't I accept that?
- If I tell you how far I have been traveling, you will know into which coach to put me, yes?
- If it (if you cross a certain line, they have these rays of light, and if you break the ray of light, then automatically all machine guns start firing in the whole area) is for happiness, then why prevent people from leaving?
- If it is convenient (if a bullock cart is inconvenient, we may not keep)?
- If no one was thinking that they needed your presence, then how is it some have come and some have not come? What is the difference?
- If nothing is our property - in fact, everything is Krsna's property - why is there this desire to possess so many things?
- If somebody is following the instructions, but if there's attraction for maya...
- If someone said to us that "You are worshiping samadhi," what is the answer?
- If we put some cloth here, some dhoti... You have a dhoti?
- If what he's saying has no value, then why should he speak?
- If you cannot what (so already some machine idle. You had to spend so much, but they are lying idle. That is not good. That is the defect of machine. If you cannot ply it, then it is dead loss)?
- If you do not use any soap, the question has come up, how to wash cloth. By beating only? Sufficient?
- If you have something, if someone's given you something and someone else wants to use it, then let him. But don't you get into the stage and can't you get to the stage at times that for some reason or other you don't want him to use it?
- Illusioned ("to err is human," therefore, it is called, that any, any man, however he may be great in the estimation of this world, he is sure to commit mistake. And another imperfection is that he is illusioned)?
- In a sense, the man is not really inventing a chair either. There is already an idea of chair previously existing. He's just discovering it, something which already exists. Is that correct?
- In the park (…prohibited?)?
- Insurance for what (they make insurance of life. So where is your insurance for these things? You do not want to die, but you are forced to die. Where is insurance? This is insurance, Krsna consciousness)?
- Is darkness eternal, Prabhupada?
- Is he (George) in town?
- Is it (Mayapur we are constructing a big temple. And Vrndavana also. So, for maintenance of the temple perpetually, I want to purchase some property in Los Angeles, because here, Los Angeles, property gets nice income)?
- Is it properly fixed up?
- Is it that they (people involved in this deprogramming) can't understand this philosophy even though they're reading it, or they just don't want to understand it?
- Is it that they (the Mafia) see everyone as their enemy, and therefore everything has to be around them?
- Is it warm (shawl from Satyabhama)?
- Is nature materialism? I mean, there are many things which are obvious, such as money, greed, etc. But how about nature, love?
- Is that bona fide, Prabhupada? (they perform Radha-Krsna kalyana, marriage)
- Is that true on every level of... chemical law (without conflict, you cannot make progress)?
- Is that what you want?
- Is the humorous direct or indirect? One in humor?
- Is the irregularity in the weather and...?
- Is there a fan? A fan. A fan?
- Is there some experience that shows me that that is a predictable result (just like we don't want death. So if I get the chance to come to a position not to die, is it not predictable?)?
- Is this (at the present moment) the later half of Brahma's life?
- Is this picture of He who is considered Krsna in the pine tree?
- Isn't it (swimming) refreshing and...?
- Isn't it a simple idea to love life?
- Isn't it in the sense the material concept (and those who know (indistinct), he is not hankering after how to get out of the (indistinct). They do not care for)?
- Isn't there an absolute value?
- It (the drama was a drug-addicted boy killed some friend?) was the sailor who was killed? On the news?
- It understood that the St. Giles in the Field School is available on rent. Now you have asked my instructions in this connection...
- It's almost time for lunch, Prabhupada... Shall we go?
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- Magnet (He is absolute controller. But He is not controlled by anyone. Therefore He is absolute controller. Just like a, what is called? Magnetic stone?)?
- Maharaja, did you show that article to... (yaj-jihvagre nama tubhyam. Aho bata svapa)?
- Make a garland out of stone?
- May I ask a few questions now?
- May I ask you a question?
- May I have the key to the almirah, put these books away?
- May we take your leave, Srila Prabhupada?
- Maybe I should read some news to you? What would you like to do now, Srila Prabhupada
- Maybe they should go in the procession though (the busses who carry the prasadam). That would look impressive, wouldn't it?
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- Nandaki, is it as good mechanically as a Mercedes?
- New (indistinct), do you mean to say?
- No, no, I'm saying this is what really happened, right? So we were thinking that we could show one day, this is one day, one day of Brahma...
- No, no, what you call that (indistinct) that flower came?... White flower, fragrant flower, it is called Parajit
- Now? Right away (call him (Braja Hari))?
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- Oh, you mean one more story (this side is going to be constructed.This side? We have to get the plan sanctioned first of all. It is not sanctioned?)?
- Oh. When did you (see Lord Venkatesvara temple)?
- Once again, many thanks for your tremendous cooperation and as I say I hope it won't put you to too much work. Obviously some of these things have already been met. To a certain extent we've done some of the work already, haven't we?
- One maha-parikrama (I want simply once parikrama)?
- Or shall we discuss more? We can start discussing
- Originally when I came to the movement I asked you this (the recipe for gold), remember? And you gave lectures on the subject, and I asked you about it. And you asked me for what purpose I wanted it
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- Pardon me (you are not prepared (to die)? Why don't you answer?)?
- People stopped purchasing... (something happened, and everything was finished. That is Krsna's grace. Just like something has happened wonderful. So that is also Krsna's grace)?
- Perfume?
- Prabhupada, can I offer you a fresh garland?
- Prabhupada, did you want to tell another story?
- Prabhupada, do you mean what we are serving the royal family?
- Prabhupada, sometimes during your lectures I hear you say yata mat tata mat?... What does that mean?
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- See this man here, Srila Prabhupada? He's emptied out all the wastepaper baskets all over the grass, and now he's searching through to see if there's anything of any value
- Shall I get the report? You want me to get the report of the astrologer?
- Shall we get out and walk, Srila Prabhupada?
- Shall we go now?
- She wants to meet you, Prabhupada. Can I bring her (the mother of Mahamsa) tomorrow?
- Should I bring him (Gopala)?
- Should I close these curtains or leave them open?
- Should I read this letter? It's from Tusta Krsna Swami
- Should I turn on a light, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we put any little arch on this gate?
- Six and 1975 is seventy-nine years?
- Smith's... (Smith Stanstreet, they were also very good company)?
- So can I know the reason why you are restraining the use of gobar gas now. I could not understand actual technical difficulty. Is there any difficulty?
- So do I come with you, Srila Prabhupada?
- So I look a fool and they'll become wise, all of them, eh?
- So if you fix one thing, another thing will just go bad?
- So in parenthesis we write, "In Scientific Knowledge" (the title of the journal (of the Bhaktivedanta Institute) is Sa-vijnanam)
- So now you'll have your bath, Srila Prabhupada?
- So saguna is necessary for going to nirguna?
- So shall I take your passport now, Srila Prabhupada?
- So some progress is made from that conflict (conflict means if I don't agree with you and if you do not agree with me, that is conflict)?
- So that's a combination of thesis and antithesis into synthesis?
- So then why do they reject it?
- So there is a smaller group going in advance, and bigger group with you stays back
- So they break very easily? ... These plates, the silverware and things that people use?
- So this idea that no progress is made in any..., except through conflict... How is that exactly?
- So we can say "Sa-vijnanam, Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute." Is that all right?
- So what does he (president of Detroit) want?
- So what is your opinion, Srila Prabhupada?
- So what will be left? After ten thousand years?
- So where will we go tomorrow if we go (you said you want to make an experiment, so let us make an experiment with this hired bullock cart…)?
- So why not we will take and we will take care?
- So, should I ask you another question now?
- Some of them must be non-greedy, not greedy, eh?
- Someone (to foreign country, but once they go they become disappointed and not second time) has gone?
- Someone should come in?
- Srila Prabhupada, are you finished passing urine?
- Srila Prabhupada, can you tell us why you want to go on the parikrama?
- Srila Prabhupada, have you been thinking about parikrama?
- Srila Prabhupada, it's 8:30. Want to finish up?
- Srila Prabhupada, Sastriji says that there must be some truth to it if you say that. So who is it that has poisoned?
- Srila Prabhupada, there was a fish on Laksmi's hand yesterday. The Deity in the temple, where Laksmi had her hand up like this, there was a fish here across her hand. What is this?
- Srila Prabhupada, there's a sidewalk here. Would you prefer walking on the sidewalk or the sands?
- Srila Prabhupada, which would you like to take?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like a fan that doesn't make so much noise perhaps?
- Srila Prabhupada, you called for me?
- Srila Prabhupada, you'll go on the roof this morning?
- Srila Prabhupada? I think we can... If you allow, Bhavananda Maharaja and I can sit you up for a minute to drink a little barley milk?… We're always taking a little warm milk at night. So you'll allow us to give you a little?
- Srila Prabhupada? This morning you would like to take your breakfast after the program or after resting?
- Srila Prabhupada? What are these beads?
- Srutakirti had offered my son two cookies... And I think you said, "Either one or three."?... Two or four?... Is there some reason behind this?
- Stopped doing what, Srila Prabhupada?
- Swamiji, last night our window was broken. Was that maya striking at us?
- Swamiji, You said that sleep is complete waste of time. What about dreaming?
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- Tarzan?
- That (the parikrama path) is available for...?
- That Gopala Krsna gave you (the pen)?
- That indemnity bond? I think I can pack it away until New York City… I could take care of that, pack it away until we get to New York
- That is called to make castles in the air (all the two, three pots he had were broken. Then he "Ohhh.")?
- That means like time is actually like presence (the past, present, future is relative according to the body. Otherwise time is eternal. Time has no past, present, future)?
- That they will not take for what reason?
- That's a lot of bullshit. How do you explain your Rolls Royce, Dickey?
- That's all right (you can send news: "Mother, I'm all right." That's all)?
- That's why they gave difficulty, the authorities, because the wheels broke?
- The buses, you know the windows, some of the windows are broken a little bit - you saw them. Do you think they will look good in the parade? It's all right if the windows are not all...
- The cement a certain, takes certain time to dry, no?
- The fountain or the garden should be in the center or in one corner?
- The history of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday?
- The personal relationship, when established, takes you far ahead psychologically. Am I right, sir?
- The sea is wonderful, isn't it? You like the sea they tell me
- Then there's three hearts?
- Then what is the cause? No, what is the cause?
- There is no special significance in it (Candi-pat)?
- There must be a temple coming. Do you know?
- There was pictures of you riding on that ratha cart, that was a truck?
- There's some park near here, he said? Indian gate?
- They (people) want to be cheated?
- They are innocent. They are not... (one who does not know what is God, he is a Carvaka, that's all)?
- They are what, Srila Prabhupada?
- They can manufacture brass items?
- They did that (they destroyed an amusement park) to get insurance money?
- They don't like Madhavananda?
- They get salt from here?
- They have verandas on this building?... On the inside or the outside?
- They said you wanted to see me (Gurudasa)?
- They say, "Oh, I've been inspired," and they create something beautiful by, automatically almost. What is that inspiration?
- They were singing all the time at the Kumbhamela, "Give me this, give me that." What is that song?
- They will always exist? Gradations will always exist?
- This (this side is going to be constructed) side?
- This gentleman (give facility for him, ten rupees)?… Ten rupees?
- This is a ghata?
- This is called Tapke?
- This is comfortable seat?... Table is close enough?
- This is in connection with the churning of the ocean?
- This is not taking this yet?
- This is the original building?
- This is used now for storing sand. That land or this?
- This old fort? This is actually called "Old Fort" isn't it? This part is built around a commemoration to a very old military fort. British
- This one (fan)?
- Three o'clock we'll meet. So we'll have our meeting, Srila Prabhupada, with Lokanatha also present… And then we'll begin tomorrow. Is that soon enough?… Should we depart for taking prasadam now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Through lecture? Through sound (hear from God personally)?
- To bring people together on discussion there are different groups, no?
- To love is very difficult, is it not? It is very difficult?
- To the children (to give some fruits). No, I will take this, you give me a piece of paper, can you?
- Tomorrow (All right, let us go)?
- Tomorrow will you go on a walk, Srila Prabhupada? Will you be walking on the roof or down below? Which do you prefer?
- Translation (read)?