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He (Dr. Rao) was not serious?

Conversations and Morning Walks

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

No, he admitted. He admitted that "You know better than us."
Room Conversation -- October 25, 1972, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: Similar Deity we'll have in this London Berkshire Palace.

Indian man: They don't look like the Deities, they look like boy and girl.

Prabhupāda: Yes, Kiśora-Kiśorī. (break)

Indian man: (indistinct) get a closer look at it.

Prabhupāda: Yes, it is very nice. People come to see the Deities in Bombay.

Indian man: You brought them from Jaipur?

Prabhupāda: Yes. It is very nice. And especially at New Vrindaban, oh, Kṛṣṇa is so attractive.

Indian man: But they're all from Jaipur. Jaipur is the place.

Devotee (3): We are just packing for sending one set of Jaipur... (break)

Prabhupāda: Vṛndāvana also you can get.

Indian man: Bombay will be very expensive. I think...

Prabhupāda: No, we don't pay anything. We work ourself.

Indian man: Oh, I see. Then why not here in Vṛndāvana?

Prabhupāda: Yes, we can also have.

Indian man: For publications, there should be a central place.

Prabhupāda: In our ISKCON Press in New York, our men are working.

Indian man: That's fine.

Prabhupāda: We don't pay anything outside. We do everything ourself.

Indian man: Good, very good.

Prabhupāda: Even ordinary repairing, we do ourself. We cannot pay outsider, it is so expensive.

Indian man: You should have that press here in Vṛndāvana. All this kind of work, reading, writing, printing, composing, it should be done here in Vṛndāvana. Because this is the proper place...

Prabhupāda: We (indistinct) botheration.

Indian man: You don't pay (indistinct) in Bombay?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Indian man: Bombay?

Prabhupāda: No.

Indian man: No (indistinct).

Prabhupāda: No. There the people have a sufficient income. Here the municipality has no income, (indistinct) this all botheration. He cannot stock. Suppose if you want to stock fifty thousand worth paper, unnecessarily you have to pay five percent.

Pañca-draviḍa: Five to ten percent.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Pañca-draviḍa: Five to ten percent.

Prabhupāda: Five to ten percent. Now fifty thousand at five to ten percent, how much? Unnecessarily you have to (indistinct). And to take back that octroi, I have got experience when I was in Allahabad doing business, you know, to take back the octroi, it is hanging. I could not develop my wholesale business due to the octroi. Then I arranged, because I was agent of Dr. Bose's factory. I was disbursing goods direct from Calcutta and sending bill from Allahabad. Octroi botheration I have got experience. You cannot do any large-scale business, the rascal government do not (indistinct) it. Due to this octroi botheration, nobody can do any large-scale business. Either you have to keep your go-down beyond the octroi limit.

Indian man: You can do that.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Indian man: You can do that here in..., because the octroi limit is very close to your (indistinct). It's just (indistinct).

Prabhupāda: Why the government is still keeping this octroi botheration, I do not know. It is old system. Practically in UP and Punjab, this octroi system. In Bihar there is no octroi, in Bengal there is no octroi. I think in Bombay also, Bombay, I mean Maharastra province, there is no octroi. Only in UP and Punjab. There is so much botheration.

Pañca-draviḍa: In Harayana also.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Pañca-draviḍa: Harayana also.

Prabhupāda: Harayana also. (break)

Gurudāsa: ...Gaurāṅga altar. When he saw that picture, he said, "Why is the door closed in the Guru-Gaurāṅga altar?"

Prabhupāda: There is no closed. No, it is three doors are open. That is not Guru-Gaurāṅga, that is extra.

Gurudāsa: Oh, oh, I see.

Devotee (3): There is two extra. (break)

Prabhupāda: Not regularly.

Indian man: Not regularly.

Prabhupāda: I simply came to see what they are doing.

Indian man: Which place did you come?

Prabhupāda: Kosi. You were present there.

Indian man: I was there. My mother also was there. I took my initiation at Rādhā-kuṇḍa.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Indian man: I was initiated at Rādhā-kuṇḍa.

Prabhupāda: In that parikrama?

Indian man: In that parikrama.

Prabhupāda: And I was initiated in Allahabad after return from parikrama.

Indian man: (indistinct) parikrama. That way I am senior by you. (laughs)

Devotee (3): From Indian people in America, we have learned about that.

Indian man: Huh?

Devotee (3): In America, we have learned from Indian people about that. (break)

Prabhupāda: Why not? You are qualified.

Indian man: I do not like to leave, not that I don't like to visit foreign countries. Just now, as a matter of fact, I don't have time to think of anything else except that (indistinct).

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Indian man: Until I complete that work...

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, you have done nice. No, one thing is that if you come to foreign countries, because you have got qualification, you can speak in educational institution. They will welcome you.

Indian man: I was once offered an exchange (indistinct) by the United States government.

Prabhupāda: When?

Indian man: That was in 1950. (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: When you were in service? (break) They come to see me. The one psychologist and psychiatrist came to see me in Los Angeles. And many scientists come. Some of them are my disciples.

Gurudāsa: Did you ever...

Prabhupāda: Dr. Rao you know?

Indian man: I know Dr. Rao.

Prabhupāda: He is a...

Indian man: (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Yes, he is a scientist.

Indian man: He is a scientist or something. What's he doing now about that machine?

Gurudāsa: Have you ever continued the correspondence with that heart surgeon?

Prabhupāda: No.

Gurudāsa: He was not serious?

Prabhupāda: No, he admitted. He admitted that "You know better than us."

Gurudāsa: So then why he didn't scientifically try to find out more?

Prabhupāda: Our process of presentation is different. Their process is different. But they can appreciate that we know better than them. The same example: just like we accept cow dung is pure. Why pure? Because Vedas says. The scientific way is not like that. Is not that?

Indian man: Yes.

Prabhupāda: They must prove by analysis, by chemical analysis. There is difference between the modern scientist and our process of understanding.

Page Title:He (Dr. Rao) was not serious?
Compiler:Marc, Rishab
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