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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1968 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1968 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">I borrow from you and I lend him. He does not pay me and I become thief." Pare dhana parke diya nija labha cora. So that means this is warning: "One should not do like that. One should not take responsibility for a person where there is no connection." (break) Everywhere the principle of self-interest is there. (break) That is there. But real self-interest is Kṛṣṇa. For Kṛṣṇa we can do anything. Because He is supreme Self. Bījo 'ham sarva-bhūtānāṁ (Bg 7.10). He is the Self of selves.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 27, 1968, Montreal, With First Devotees Going to London On Evening of Their Departure|Room Conversation -- October 27, 1968, Montreal, With First Devotees Going to London On Evening of Their Departure]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (break) ...pare dhana parke diye nija labha cora: "I borrowed something from you, and I lend him. He does not pay me, and I become thief."</p>
<p>Janārdana: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (laughing) So... "I borrow from you and I lend him. He does not pay me and I become thief." Pare dhana parke diya nija labha cora. So that means this is warning: "One should not do like that. One should not take responsibility for a person where there is no connection." (break) Everywhere the principle of self-interest is there. (break) That is there. But real self-interest is Kṛṣṇa. For Kṛṣṇa we can do anything. Because He is supreme Self. Bījo 'ham sarva-bhūtānāṁ (Bg 7.10). He is the Self of selves. (break) Where is Haṁsadūta? What he's doing there?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): I think he's cooking.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Cooking? (laughs) He's very expert cooking. (laughs) And Himavati also, assisting her husband?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): I don't think so.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Haṁsadūta likes to cook.</p>
<p>Yamunā: Oh, he loves it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So he wants to open a restaurant.</p>
<p>Janārdana: Here?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Our, I mean to say, ISKCON restaurant. So you wanted to open that restaurant in our temple.</p>
<p>Janārdana: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So why don't you do it? He is a very nice cooker.</p>
<p>Janārdana: If he stays here to cook, that's a very good idea.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, he'll stay. And I have told him already. And I have asked all the students in America chased by this draft board may come here.</p>
<p>Yamunā: You're going to have to get a bigger building.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): There won't be anybody left in America.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. In our connection, our students, let him come here. So these two boys, Jayapatāka and Vaikuṇṭha, in the same process receive. And therefore I was thinking that let us start press and restaurant and engage all these boys. So you can... (break) ...center. Why don't you try for that building?</p>
<p>Janārdana: The building, the Strathcona, the government building.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is very nice, but other building in front of our temple, just not in exactly front. That big signboard.</p>
<p>Janārdana: Oh, 16,000, 15,000 square feet, a dollar sixty a foot?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Dollar sixty?</p>
<p>Janārdana: Yes. We are paying forty-nine cents a foot, and they are asking there a dollar sixty a foot. They are asking three times more rent than we are paying. It's very expensive.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How many..., there? 16,000?</p>
<p>Janārdana: 15,000 square feet. It is a fortified place because they keep furs. They keep animal furs there, and animal furs are very expensive, and thieves very often break in. So I think that one of the reasons why it's so expensive is because it's fortified.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not follow. What is that?</p>
<p>Janārdana: It is a place... (break) ...of animals, and they are very expensive furs.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, very expensive.</p>
<p>Janārdana: Very expensive. They want a dollar sixty a square foot per year, which is very expensive. We are paying 49 cents a square foot per year.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh. I thought that because it is a downstairs floor, the restaurant can be started there.</p>
<p>Janārdana: Oh, you mean there's another place? You mean that storefront downstairs?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Janārdana: Oh, that place... It's a green color and the windows are covered with soap? The windows are painted white?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. It's a big building, big store. And big signboard. (break) ...shall approach. (laughing) Somebody said, told, that is for sale?</p>
<p>Janārdana: There is a store for sale. No. I think what they mean, the business is for sale.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (break) ...prescription, doctors never says in plain terms. Just like at the end of the prescription, "add water." This is real purpose. They will write "aqua pureata(?)". Nobody will understand. They will understand. This is also some of the medicine. Aqua means water. Similarly, you can say, "prasādam distribution," and they will have to consult dictionary, what it is. And you can say, "Oh, it is not restaurant; it is prasādam." So at least...</p>
<p>Janārdana: No. "Nobody is allowed to smoke in here, and they have to take off their shoes, so how can you say it's a restaurant?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. These are technical. (break) ...description, what is called restaurant, that "Wherever foodstuff is prepared and sold, that is called restaurant," then it will come to that category. Whenever they make some law, they give definition of each word, what do you mean by restaurant. So today is another ceremony in the temple?</p>
<p>Janārdana: We couldn't find any barley. What can we use instead?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Barley? Why? It is...?</p>
<p>Janārdana: The stores are all closed today, and the boys searched everywhere. They didn't find any barley.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Some grains. Any other grain.</p>
<p>Janārdana: There is whole wheat.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That will do.</p>
<p>Janārdana: Whole wheat grains and there's rice.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Rice... Better... Wheat is better.</p>
<p>Janārdana: And what else is there?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sesame?</p>
<p>Janārdana: Sesame? I don't know. Is there some sesame?</p>
<p>Mālatī: Yes, I have some and Annapurna has some.</p>
<p>Janārdana: And there's some buckwheat. Raw buckwheat.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Buckwheat? What is that?</p>
<p>Janārdana: Raw buckwheat. It's a grain.</p>
<p>Śāradīyā: (break) What is the significance of using the barley and the sesame.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Some eatables, that's all. Grains are eatables. Therefore I am substituting. They are eatable. There must be something eatable.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Does eatable... Does Kṛṣṇa eat out of the fire?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): He does? He eats all that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everyone eats. Kṛṣṇa also... Kṛṣṇa eats through fire. Therefore yajña is offered. Kṛṣṇa eats by so many ways, but people want to see that "I give foodstuff; it must be finished." (chuckles) So for the rudimental seers and the less intelligent class, this is...</p>
<p>Janārdana: Virāṭa rūpa conception.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Virāṭa rūpa, yes. That is also nice, right, that through fire He eats, yes, or through the mouth of the brāhmaṇas and devotees. Two things are there. Therefore, according to the Vedic religion, the brāhmaṇas or Vaiṣṇavas, devotees, are invited to take food in some ceremonies. In śraddhā ceremony they are especially invited with great honor. In pilgrimage somebody goes to Vrndavana, Prayag, Mathura. They invite the brāhmaṇas and Vaisnavas so that through them Kṛṣṇa is eating. They have come to satisfy Kṛṣṇa in a place of pilgrimage. These are the systems. So for the purpose of eating, so many brāhmaṇas have sprung up. Because brāhmaṇas are invited, so so many so-called brāhmaṇas there. They'll be present when eating, and when there is chanting of Vedas they are not present there. (break) Baby has also tilaka. (chuckles) She is very happy. You see? I never seen such small child not crying. That means she is always happy. She's not crying means... Because baby cries when there is discomfort. And with her face shows that she is very happy. (laughs)</p>
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