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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> | | <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 class="heading">There is a nice story in this connection. There was one Gopal Ban. So he was very cunning fellow. In the Muhammadan period in Bengal. So the Mohammedan Nawab asked him, "Gopal Ban, can you prepare a Mahābhārata in my name?" "Oh, yes!" | | <div class="heading">There is a nice story in this connection. There was one Gopal Ban. So he was very cunning fellow. In the Muhammadan period in Bengal. So the Mohammedan Nawab asked him, "Gopal Ban, can you prepare a Mahābhārata in my name?" "Oh, yes!" |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Adoration. These are the material demands.</p> | | |
| <p>Hari-śauri: Because, originally, it was built up as a big thing between Russia and America, who would get to the moon first.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Now they are shaking hands, and none of them has gone. "I thank you."</p>
| | <mp3player>https://vanipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/clip/760604MW-LOS_ANGELES_clip.mp3</mp3player> |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's like the emperor's new clothes.</p>
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: "You failed, my dear sir. I failed also. Come on."</p>
| | Prabhupāda: ''Lābha'', ''pūjā'', ''pratiṣṭhā''. These three things are materially wanted. Some material profit, some reputation and some . . . eh? |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There's a story, "The Emperor's Clothes," "The Emperor's New Clothes." There were these tailors, and they made believe that they were making clothes for the emperor, but actually they were doing nothing, but they were making the motions. So they, everybody was saying what nice clothes and finally...</p>
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| <p>Candanācārya: No, they said, any intelligent, only intelligent people will see the clothes. </p>
| | Devotees: Distinction. |
| <p>Hṛdayānanda: And someone who's a fool, he cannot see it. </p>
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| <p>Rāmeśvara: Magic cloth. </p>
| | Prabhupāda: Adoration. These are the material demands. |
| <p>Candanācārya: So they were getting much money for making nothing. </p>
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| <p>Hṛdayānanda: The emperor went out naked in the street, and everyone was afraid to admit that there was no clothes. </p>
| | Hari-śauri: Because originally it was built up as a big thing between Russia and America, who would get to the moon first. |
| <p>Rāmeśvara: Because they would be labeled fool. So finally one boy said, "But the emperor has no clothes."</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there is a nice story in this connection. There was one Gopal Ban. So he was very cunning fellow. In the Muhammadan period in Bengal. So the Mohammedan Nawab asked him, "Gopal Ban, can you prepare a Mahābhārata in my name?" "Oh, yes!" So, "I'll engage so many paṇḍitas, and they will make a Mahābhārata, your activities, your glories, everything. So give me one hundred thousand rupees, just begin." He was taking money, taking money, "Yes, it is going on, going on." "Then when it will be published?" "Yes, just last few days more. Now, sir, everything is prepared. So the one thing is, you have to give me information how many husbands you have got, your wife, huh? How many husbands your wife has got?" That is very insulting. "What, you nonsense, you take." "No, that is the main feature of Mahābhārata. Draupadī had five husbands, so how many husbands your wife has got? Tell me that." Then, "No, no, I don't want that. I am the only husband." "Then how can you write Mahābhārata?" (laughter) "I don't want." "All right. If you want Mahābhārata you must tell how many your wife has got husbands." That he cannot say. So Mahābhārata finished.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. Now they are shaking hands, and none of them has gone. "I thank you." |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And he kept the money.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That already, he took that "I have to steal to pay so much money. Give me." That's all right. So these are, scientists are doing like that. At the end, how many husbands your wife has got.</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's like the emperor's new clothes. |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Scientists are doing the same thing.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: "You failed, my dear sir. I failed also. Come on." |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Taking money.</p>
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| <p>Rādhāvallabha: They have one argument, that during solar eclipse, the moon appears to pass in front of the sun, between the sun and the earth.</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There's a story, "The Emperor's Clothes," "The Emperor's New Clothes." There were these tailors, and they made believe that they were making clothes for the emperor, but actually they were doing nothing, but they were making the motions. So they . . . everybody was saying what nice clothes, and finally . . . |
| <p>Hṛdayānanda: Prabhupāda explains that. It is the Rāhu planet.</p>
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| <p>Rādhāvallabha: But they are viewing the moon. The moon is right there, they can see it. And all of a sudden it goes in front of the sun.</p>
| | Candanācārya: No, they said, any intelligent . . . only intelligent people will see the clothes. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Huh? What is that? Moon is there, sun is there. Now which first? That is the question.</p>
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| <p>Rādhāvallabha: They will say that they've observed in their telescopes...,</p>
| | Hṛdayānanda: And someone who's a fool, he cannot see it. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: They'll say..., whatever they'll say it is all right. First of all, say why Sunday first. Then talk all nonsense. First of all, answer this. You cannot say "We believe that Sunday first." What is the fact? Why do you bring moon, Monday? Why not bring...?</p>
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| <p>Rādhāvallabha: They will say it is arbitrary order.</p>
| | Rāmeśvara: Magic cloth. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
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| <p>Rādhāvallabha: Then they will get back to their argument.</p>
| | Candanācārya: So they were getting much money for making nothing. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Arbitrary order is not science. That you cannot.</p>
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| | Hṛdayānanda: The emperor went out naked in the street, and everyone was afraid to admit that there was no clothes. |
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| <div id="RoomConversationAfterFilmJune281976NewVrindaban_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="172" link="Room Conversation After Film -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Room Conversation After Film -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban">
| | Rāmeśvara: Because they would be labeled fool. |
| <div class="heading">There were a funny man. They are called Gopal Bhan. So formerly kings, they used to keep some funny men because they are always full of anxiety, and one funny man would give them joke.
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| | Hṛdayānanda: So finally one boy said: "But the emperor has no clothes." |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation After Film -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation After Film -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: There were a funny man. They are called Gopal Bhan. So formerly kings, they used to keep some funny men because they are always full of anxiety, and one funny man would give them joke.</p>
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| <p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They call them jesters, court jesters.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes, there is a nice story in this connection. There was one Gopal Bhad. So he was very cunning fellow, in the Muhammadan period in Bengal. So the Muhammadan Nawab asked him, "Gopal Bhad, can you prepare a ''Mahābhārata'' in my name?" "Oh, yes!" So, "I'll engage so many ''paṇḍitas'', and they will make a ''Mahābhārata'', your activities, your glories, everything. So give me one hundred thousand rupees, just begin." He was taking money, taking money, "Yes, it is going on, going on." "Then when it will be published?" "Yes, just last few days more. Now, sir, everything is prepared. So the one thing is, you have to give me information how many husbands you have got, your wife, huh? How many husbands your wife has got?" That is very insulting. "What, you nonsense, you take." "No, that is the main feature of ''Mahābhārata''. Draupadī had five husbands, so how many husbands your wife has got? Tell me that." Then, "No, no, I don't want that. I am the only husband." "Then how can you write ''Mahābhārata''?" (laughter) "I don't want." "All right. If you want ''Mahābhārata'' you must tell how many your wife has got husbands." That he cannot say. So ''Mahābhārata'' finished. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Jester.</p>
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| <p>Kīrtanānanda: Court jester.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Court jesters, yes. So there was a man, court jester, in Bengal. So the Muhammadan governor asked one Gopal Bhan, jester... He was jester in the court of Raja Krishna Chandra. So he asked him, Nawab, that "Gopal Bhan, I have heard you are very expert. Can you write a similar book, Mahābhārata, about my kingdom?" (laughter) "Oh, yes. Why not?" That is not... So he took some hundred thousands of rupees and again come: "Give me another ten thousand," "Another ten," in this way. "When the book will be finished? You have taken so much money." "It is just on the verge of being finished." Then, when he saw that no more money can be taken—"I have taken so much money"—then he one day said that "Now, sir, one information is very essential. That is wanted. You give me, and the Mahābhārata will be finished. Everything is there." "What is that information?" "Now, your wife, how many husband she has got?" "This is nonsense!" "Eh? Well, that is the main subject matter of Mahābhārata. Draupadī had five husbands, so you are such a great person, your wife must have at least one dozen. Otherwise how Mahābhārata will...?" "It is the subject matter of?" "Yes, that is the only subject matter, that Draupadī had five husbands. So you are such a big nawab, your wife must at least have one dozen. So give me their names." So he became very angry, "Don't talk all this nonsense." "Then I cannot finish your Mahābhārata." "I have already invested..." So he took another ten thousand rupees, and he said, "Stop all this nonsense. That's all right." So these rascals, they are writing Gopal Bhan's Mahābhārata, and the rascal government is paying them.</p>
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