Prabhupāda: There are nice birds. Cuckoo.
Devotee: That cuckoo bird?
Prabhupāda: "Co-co, co-co, co."
Haṁsadūta: In India everything is alive.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Haṁsadūta: I said. In India it appears that everything is alive.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Haṁsadūta: When we came we first noticed that everywhere there's a town, all kinds of animals are living. No one is disturbing them.
Prabhupāda: Well, this is land of religion. It is admitted by other parts of the world. Just see. Columbus was searching after India even for trade, hundred of years . . . people are coming to India for so many: for knowledge, for philosophy, for trade, for money. Why these Britishers came? They came for money. And now, India being exploited for so many thousands of years and their standard of civilization deteriorated, the condition is now . . . still, India's position is unique, still, in this fallen condition. Now people are degraded from their high standard of living, from spiritual point of view, material point of view. And still, they stand, previous social construction, their living condition, their feelings of religion. It is still going on. Climate also.
Haṁsadūta: Climate.
Prabhupāda: Climate also. The climate is very favorable. Now it is, of course, winter season. Otherwise, it will continue for two months only. It is not very severe, and still, this condition will not continue. Throughout the whole year you can remain naked body. There is no expenditure for dressing much. And to remain clean, you simply wash in the water, and immediately it is . . . so with one cloth or two cloths you can go on for six months. There is no much expenditure. And this vegetarian diet, if you take a few grains of this chick pea and little milk, you don't require anything to eat. Everything, facility, is there still. But they have . . . the people are being trained up to imitate Western civilization. That is the government policy that, "Unless you become westernized, technologist, you'll not be happy." But they can become happy even in this condition. This artificial partition has caused some trouble by the Britishers because the Pakistan has taken away all the wheat and rice. Their purpose was that . . .
The Punjab side, they are producing wheat in very large quantity. In Bengal, that is the . . . perhaps the biggest rice producing country in the world, Bengal. So rice is in Pakistan and wheat is in Pakistan. Even cows, they were maintained by the Punjabis, big, big cows, milk-producing. They are now in the Punjab. So there is no milk, there is no rice, there is no wheat. And they have no sugar. The sugar is produced this side. In this way, always.