Prabhupāda: Twelve hours?
Guest (6): Two hours. It was nearly two hours.
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. No, he's a good man.
Guest (6): That's a good example, example like that. There are rare examples.
Guest (7): Likes the Bhagavad-gītā.
Prabhupāda: Yes, he's a good man. He's good scholar also, educated.
Guest (6): He was coming but I don't know why he has not come due to this . . .? This last year in the Bhāgavatam discourses he accepted he would come. We got his letter also.
Prabhupāda: This is due to government post. (laughter)
Guest (7): And he also accepted an invitation, we invited him. He said he'd also come, but this Pakistan war started.
Prabhupāda: Still there are so many respectable person came. The governor came, the high-court justices came, and that, the Canadian Ambassador came. Many men came. And he was very humble. He sat down below.
Guest (6): (to other guest) You didn't see the High Commissioner there. He sat down.
Prabhupāda: He's also a very nice man.
Guest (6): Maybe some pious activities that they have.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Guest (6): But this is their duty to respect. (break)
Prabhupāda: . . . in this planet. In order to be elevated to the kingdom of God, they cannot go directly from the heavenly planet. They'll have to come here.
Guest (6): There are many stories in Mahābhārata. Many, many kings, they went to heavenly planets, and from there. Many stories.
Prabhupāda: Kṣīṇe puṇye martya-lokaṁ viśanti (BG 9.21).