Farce (Conversations)

Expressions researched:
"farce" |"farcical"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1969 Conversations and Morning Walks

But try to understand it seriously. Don't make it a farce.

Prabhupada Listening to Recording of His Own Room Conversation with Students -- April 25, 1969, Boston: So you are all intelligent boys and girls. You try to understand this Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy with all your reason or argument. But try to understand it seriously. Don't make it a farce. That is the object of life.

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

It is very important movement. It is not a farce.

Conversation with the GBC -- May 25, 1972, Los Angeles: Similarly, so far the framework is done. I have done with your help. Now we have to push this movement. It is very important movement. It is not a farce. It is actually for the benefit of the human society.

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

So they can never become united. This is only bogus farce.

Room Conversation with Dr. Arnold Toynbee, Famous Historian, at his home or office -- July 22, 1973, London: So the, these materialistic persons, United Nations, League of Nations, they are trying to unite, but they, at heart, there is jealousy. So they can never become united. This is only bogus farce.

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

The bhakti is real yoga. That is real yoga. And this is farce.

Morning Walk -- February 23, 1974, Bombay:

Dr. Patel: The yoga means to join yourself. Your self means not body, not even mind, but your soul, to the higher soul of, that means the God. That is real yoga. And that is as good as bhakti. Or you call it yoga, anything. Yoga and bhakti comes to same thing then.

Prabhupāda: No, no. Bhakti is real yoga. Others are farce. Yoginām api sarveṣām [Bg. 6.47]. The bhakti is real yoga. That is real yoga. And this is farce.

You not yogi. You only making some farce.

Morning Walk -- June 14, 1974, Paris: Why don't you explain them that, that "You are yogi... You not yogi. You only making some farce. Where is your yogi? Are you going to a solitary place? Are you practicing alone, sitting on your seat like as they are described, and looking on the point of the nose? Are you doing that? You are not yogi. You are simply a caricature.

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Farce...Now they are fools, rascal, bluffing, but even the scientists, they are also bluffing.

Morning Walk -- May 12, 1975, Perth:

Amogha: There was an article in the paper yesterday from India that says that the Indian court has banned Guru Maharaj-ji from leaving India. They have issued an order that he must stay until the court has finished because his brother is suing. Because his brother published a photo showing Guru Maharaj-ji embracing and kissing an American girl in the paper. So the Guru Maharaj-ji published a picture of his brother doing the same thing. But they say it was a fake photo, so the court is holding him in India, and they're having a legal battle, suing each other to see who is God.

Prabhupāda: Farce.

Paramahaṁsa: It seems like these demons who say that they are God, eventually they will end up destroying each other.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Now they are fools, rascal, bluffing, but even the scientists, they are also bluffing. Now Russia and America combined together, going? Just see where they are going.

Otherwise they will be farce before the world.

Morning Walk -- May 16, 1975, Perth: Now they are serious, and they will have to say that they've never gone to the moon. And they will have to continue this. Otherwise they will be farce before the world.