Jayapatākā's mother: I have some questions for him already. I have some questions for him already.
Prabhupāda: Your son could not answer the questions?
Jayapatākā's mother: I will see him this evening.
Prabhupāda: Yes, your son will be able to answer all questions. Like Devahūti, you can take instruction from your son. That is in the history. Son is instructing mother. Generally mother instructs the son, but there is that history son is instructing mother. Because here we make such relationship—mother, father, son, daughter, relative. Actually this is material nature made, in different bodies. Otherwise, real father is Kṛṣṇa. (devotees exclaim—lights go out?) This is the benefit of modern science, (laughter) (Prabhupāda laughs) that in the evening you require light—there is no light in the evening. When you require, there is no light. Better depend on the natural oil.
Bhāgavata: In Satya-yuga or Tretā-yuga they would not drill for petrol to use to make electricity or to make these gas lamps, so by what means did they use to light the palaces and the kingdoms? What was the natural resource utilized for that purpose?
Prabhupāda: This oil. You produce castor seed oil. You grow castor seed by agricultural.
Bhāgavata: Grow cas...?
Prabhupāda: Castor seed.
Bhāgavata: Castor seed.
Prabhupāda: Yes, and you get sufficient oil.
Bhāgavata: And that was used, castor seed.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Instead of one cand..., one lamp, hundred candlepower, if you want more light you just have hundred castor seed lamps. That's all. It will look beautiful, and there'll be light. You'll find it. If you bring one hundred castor seed lamps, it will look very nice and the light is there. (end)