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Monkey who lost his tail advertised, this is the fashion

Expressions researched:
"monkey" |"this is the fashion" |"he lost his tail" |"this is the latest fashion"

Notes from the compiler: Vedabase query: "monkey" and "this is the fashion"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966: Just like there is a very nice story. A monkey... Monkeys, they are very busy. Do you know? But their business is to simply destroy. You will find monkey always busy, very active. So in the village there was a carpenter who was bifurcating one big beam by saw. So at the end of his work, half of the beam was cut into two, so he put one block between the two pieces and he went away. And then one monkey came, and he pulled out the block, and his tail was captured in that, between the two, and it was cut. So he went to his society, and he said that "This is the fashion. This is the fashion." Langulim segar(?). He advertised, "To cut one's tail, this is the latest fashion."

Conversations and Morning Walks

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London: Prabhupāda: I think he had taken the idea, (Sanskrit). This is Sanskrit story, that (Sanskrit), or monkey, he lost his tail, and he began to advertise, "This is the latest fashion." So that ball-dancing without tail, that was, I remember, it is very enjoyable.
Page Title:Monkey who lost his tail advertised, this is the fashion
Compiler:Labangalatika
Created:30 of May, 2009
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:2