Prabhupāda: Kānā-māmā. If there is no māmā, blind māmā is all right. And who is that, this photograph?
Bhakti-caru: This one is Mr. Charan Singh addressing a press conference in Delhi on Monday, Charan Singh, Indian Prime Minister. (Hindi) "The passport of Mr. Sanjay Gandhi, Mr. Motilal, and Mr. Dhirendra Brahmacari, who runs a yoga center here, have been impounded. Official sources said here today the necessary instructions have been issued in this regard to the concerned authorities."
Prabhupāda: Impound? Impound? What is the impounding?
Bhakti-caru: Cancelled today.
Prabhupāda: Where there is?
Bhakti-caru: New Delhi. (Bengali) "The instructions have been issued in this regard to the concerned authorities. Mr Brahmacari is known to be close to Mr. Sanjay Gandhi." "Morarji Wants . . . (indistinct) . . . Prices. The Prime Minister, Mr. Morarji Desai, today promised in a radio broadcast to check the recent rise in prices on certain goods, 'if necessary by comparing quotas in the current stocks and even by imports, where feasible.' Mr. Desai observed that prices had declined since between February 25 and the end of March but had again increased in the last few weeks in the case of essential goods like oil seeds, cotton, edible oil, tea, pulses and food grains. This has raised apprehensions in the minds of . . . (indistinct) . . . Some traders and some stockists have taken advantage of the shortage of some commodities to increase prices. The form of exploitation would not be tolerated. The Prime Minister said that 'Lifting of the emergency does not mean that traders should try and make extra profits. That will hinder them in the eyes of the law, the people and the government. I should like to emphasize that the ordinary law of the land is sufficient to deal with any antisocial conduct.' "
Prabhupāda: They should severe punishment. Then . . . We shall see.
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali?) "Ninety murders in one district."
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Bhakti-caru: Charan Singh speech (Hindi) "Ninety murders in one district. 'There was a constitutional breakdown in the states,' he said. The chief minister of Maratha states had admitted to him that his government's reach was no longer running the way it had done earlier. He was receiving many complaints from the U.P. Rajasthan, and Haryana. Fifty murders have been committed in one district in Bihar in one week. Mr. Charan Singh's statement, which was preceded by a cabinet meeting earlier in the morning, led to a spate of questions. He was asked whether he was going counter to the spirit of the federal structure, which permitted different ruling parties and centers and states, whether the ruling party M.P. would be asked to resign if a state . . . if the states they came from turned down his party government and whether the central government would not invoke the power of an article which stated by the Constitution despite capitalism in the Janata party election manifesto."
Prabhupāda: So what is this yoga? (laughs) Sanjay Gandhi's yoga, just see. A rogue, devil, he is practicing yoga. His mother was practicing also yoga, the same.
Bhakti-caru: They want to pull their youth back.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Bhakti-caru: They are practicing yoga. They want to pull their youth back. (Bengali)
Prabhupāda: No Indira Gandhi's news?
Bhakti-caru: (continues to read news articles) No . . . Indira Gandhi . . . "Infighting with Civic Congress Party leads to more powers for laborers." "Civil judge regrets motives against magistrates." (indistinct—reads more headings and newspaper articles) " 'The revolutionary work of eliminating poverty and unemployment in the rural areas can be accomplished by a considerable extent through the khādi and village industries. To achieve these objectives modern technology must be used to rise to the extent possible.' He hopes the new commission would take steps in this direction." (continues reading news articles; Prabhupāda is silent)
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Hmm. That's all. (break)
Girirāja: . . . lal to meet you. So far, he hasn't shown himself to be too . . .
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Girirāja: So far, he seems to be more preoccupied with his own ideas, so we don't know whether there will be any benefit to this meeting.
Prabhupāda: But if he wants to meet, I have no objection. (break) . . . and the host was very rich man in anywhere. And he had no son. He expressed his desire to father to take me. This is the position.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Your father would not give you up. He was a sannyāsī?
Prabhupāda: Another gentleman in Hasi(?) . . . We were going in the same car. So he requested me, "Please come here." An old man, nice, very well-to-do man. And after giving the nice seat and some refreshment, so he said that "I like you very much. I have no son. Why don't you become as my son?"
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Seems like everyone is very affectionate to you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is Kṛṣṇa's grace. He picked up on the street like this.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That man?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Nāhi, adopted son, that is a practice.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In America also, they have the foster home. The children are there, and parents may go and adopt some child.
Prabhupāda: That is everywhere. So that village gentleman, that place I liked.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Would you have agreed to stay with him?
Prabhupāda: I would have been glad. Very nice foodstuff, very nice, clean, and he has got his fresh vegetables, like that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How old were you?
Prabhupāda: At that time I was ten years old. Or twelve years. Not more than twelve years. But I liked that place very much. They still presented the foodstuff, fresh. I have been many . . . Not many. In the village, so tasteful, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and they cooked so nicely. Nice milk. Everything very nutritious. That life is lost. What is this nonsense life, hanging in the daily buses, outside. Kṛṣṇa advises to live village life, agriculture, and utilize time for understanding your spiritual life. That is . . . So we are trying to introduce this, this farm life. (break) Out of so many other living entities, he tried to give me trouble. How you can check it?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika.
Prabhupāda: So therefore a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, they know the body is the cause of. "Because I have got this body, I am suffering. So partial service to the body, what benefit?" That is . . . That requires very good brain. Today I have got eye trouble. Tomorrow I have got leg trouble. The other day I have got hand trouble.