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Śarādīyā: I did at first but then I slipped back.
Prabhupāda: Is it very difficult?
Mālatī: No, we do not know how yet to regulate our time too well. Some days we chant sixteen rounds and then the next day, I don't know what happens. I think we sleep too much, I mean I think I sleep too much.
Prabhupāda: How many hours you are sleeping?
Mālatī: About six to eight.
Prabhupāda: That is not much. Sixteen... It takes only two hours, sixteen rounds. Huh? Two hours, or more than that?
Prabhupāda: So in your country also that position may come. Now in America you are happy. Because the nature is changing, jagat. Jagat means which is changing. So before any further changes come, you spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over your country. You should utilize these fruits and flowers for Kṛṣṇa and be happy. Don't slip down. That is my request. Whatever I could do, I have done. Now it is up to you to spread this movement all over the world. Don't go away. There is some tendency, somebody. Therefore, I ask you, no. This is all nonsense. This is māyā's peeping, "Why you are working so hard for a sentiment, chanting and dancing? Come on, take to service and be happy with your wife and children." This is māyā. This is māyā. I did not ask my students to marry to become a lost child. I wanted to give them some facility, because you cannot do without wife. But now I am seeing that some of them are slipping away. This is not to be done, no.
Prabhupāda: Come on, take to service and be happy with your wife and children." This is māyā. This is māyā. I did not ask my students to marry to become a lost child. I wanted to give them some facility, because you cannot do without wife. But now I am seeing that some of them are slipping away. This is not to be done, no. Every one of us as good as sannyāsī because we have sacrificed everything for Kṛṣṇa. Sannyāsī does not mean simply having no wife and children, he's a sannyāsī. No. Nothing to possess except Kṛṣṇa. That is sannyāsī. One should know that "I will have simply Kṛṣṇa, nothing more." Then he is sannyāsī. This mentality, that "I have nothing to serve, I have nobody to serve except Kṛṣṇa." But if you serve Kṛṣṇa, you will serve everyone. Just like I was teaching this Indian gentleman. The same process. If you pour water on the root of the tree, automatically the branches, the leaves, and the flowers are all served.
Pratyatoṣa: This here. It's my savings account, and there's a deposit slip in there, eleven hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents, and I would like to present it as a gift.
Śyāmasundara: Ātreya Ṛṣi can take care of all this.
Prabhupāda: What is this?
Pratyatoṣa: It's a withdrawal slip. That's just... That's Ātreya Ṛṣi..., and Ātreya Ṛṣi can take care of the details of getting the money out of the account to do whatever you want with it.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct) the amount, you can charge my account (indistinct).
Pratyatoṣa: Originally we were planning on...
Prabhupāda: That's all, it is all right.
Prabhupāda: Yes, this is the Vaiṣṇava training. Now we should have our routine work. Just like here, punctually, as soon as I see seven, I ask, "When is he coming?" (indistinct). As soon as (indistinct), immediately I ask. So there may be more (indistinct), but the routine work must be followed. If somebody is slipping, the kīrtana is going on (indistinct) morning, (indistinct) is going on. So he maybe said that if you sleep like that then you cannot do it.
Devotee: I said that to that boy previously. I told him not to do...
Prabhupāda: That's all right, but why you (indistinct) something, pour water on his body?
Devotee: Simply to wake him.
Prabhupāda: You should not do anything which may provoke some kind of...
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's a little slippery, Prabhupāda. We'll go around here.
Śruta-kīrti: It's all right here.
Prabhupāda: I'll do. Mūḍhas. They are mūḍhas, means rascals, and they're exposing more and more that yes, they are mūḍhas. And another set of rascals, what is called, recognizing that "Yes, take this degree." Avyāpare suvyāparaṁ yo naraḥ kartum icchati sa mūḍhaḥ hanyate 'khilotpad iva vānaraḥ.(?) Vānara means monkey. Monkey... One monkey... there was a woodcutter. What is called, woodcutter?
Brahmānanda: I noticed that one review of your books was written by Mohanlal Sharma of Slippery Rock College. He wrote a very enthusiastic review.
Satsvarūpa: Yes. He claimed to be the first one to receive you at a college.
Prabhupāda: Yes. He is very nice gentleman. He came to see me in New York also, with his family.
Brahmānanda: His wife is Sally?
Prabhupāda: No.
Ayādvaita: You gave that other example in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that Nṛsiṁhadeva let Hiraṇyakaśipu slip from His hands for a little while just to play with him.
Nalinī-kānta: The Vedic civilization is centered around villages, not cities?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Nalinī-kānta: If we want to make the world Kṛṣṇa conscious...
Prabhupāda: Vedic civilization is in the forest. Go to the forest.
Hari-śauri: Renounce.
Prabhupāda: :Neither in the city nor in the village. Go to the forest.
Dr. Patel: Then you never, I mean, even for, it is just like you, even for a moment you slip down, just like a (indistinct). It should be perpetual conscious within yourself.
Prabhupāda: I have seen Gandhi's prayer meeting, and I attended. Utmost, five minutes reading Bhagavad-gītā, then again politics immediately. Immediately politics. I was in Delhi. I attended the meeting when Nawa Khalia (Noakhali?) fast. So this was his prayer. I have seen. And as a result of this, in that prayer meeting he was killed. (Hindi) So nature punishment are there. (Hindi) The last stage of Kali-yuga means you die.
Prabhupāda: State Bank of India officer Mr. Bhattacari told me: "Swamiji, you are sponsored by private man. So we cannot accept it. If you are invited by some institution, then we could consider, but you are invited by a private man for one month, and, after one month, if you are in difficulty, and there will be so much obstacles and so on." "Well, I have already prepared everything to go." So I said that "You, what you have done?" "No, I have decided not to sanction your P-form." "No, no, don't do this. You better send to your superior. It should not be done like that." So he took my request and he sent the file to Chief Officer of Foreign Exchange, something like that. Anyway, he is the supreme man in the State Bank of India. So I went to see him. So I asked his secretary that "You have got such file? You kindly put to Mr...."—his name was Mr. Rao—"I want to see him." So the secretary agreed, and he put the file and put my slip that I wanted to see him. I was waiting. So Mr. Rao came personally. He said, "Swamiji, I have passed your case. Don't worry."
Prabhupāda: And if you want to know further, you can write to me.
Dr. Kneupper: Good. I'll take back your blessing to Slippery Rock when I go back there.
Prabhupāda: Yes, and there, so many old friends, you can offer them.
Dr. Kneupper: OK. Dr. Morrison and Dr. Sharma...
Prabhupāda: There is Sydney Weld there, when I went.
Dr. Kneupper: Very good. Is the friend which you were... You were staying with somebody in Butler?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: The boy went there for learning engineering. But he settled there and married one English girl. I became his guest for about a month. Then I came to New York.
Dr. Kneupper: I see. Was the place Slippery Rock, was that the first college...?
Prabhupāda: No, the place was Butler.
Dr. Kneupper: You were in Butler, right?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So I saw that one, that Mr. Maiman (?), he has got so many boxes all down his room. So I asked, "What are these?" "No, these are different cinema house collection. The ticket, half of the ticket, is put into this box before entering. So I count this slip. Then I can understand what is the income. That's all. Let them do whatever that." So I am simply asking, "How many books they are selling?" (laughter) If the sale is going on, "All right, that's all right. Let them do whatever they like." The books are printed and distributed? That is all right. Then other things, you do whatever you like. Never ask. Where is Arundhati?
Hari-śauri: That fat boy, Guru Maharaj-ji.
Prabhupāda: No, he had. So what is his position now?
Rāmeśvara: His family has called him a false guru. So there's a slip.
Prabhupāda: His mother.
Hari-śauri: What was the effect of that?
Rāmeśvara: He lost a lot of his following. The main ones... There are a few small ones. Moon, Reverend Moon, he is a big demon, and they're attacking him, so that's good. But then they try to make us to be just like him. I've heard them say that you have a big penthouse in Los Angeles, and you always drive in Rolls Royces. I've heard these things, but we...
Yugadharma: And they are mūrtis that slip off the base. They are very first-class. I went to mūrtiwālā in Navadvīpa, Gopal.
Prabhupāda: No, he's not good.
Yugadharma: No. I went and looked at his prices and his quality...
Prabhupāda: No, no. Don't deal with him. He's a great thief.
Yugadharma: Yes.
Prabhupāda: I don't like him. He has made the karatālas so third-class. He is simply cheating. Don't deal with him.
Prabhupāda: Hm. So there was the minister Nizamuddin, I think, he helped him to go out. He was going for evening walk with police force and other. So it became accustomed. Police became lenient, in the meantime slipped. And in a dress of a Kābuli, Kābuli-wālā, Pāṭhan he crossed India. In this way he went there.
Prabhupāda: ...in Calcutta. That is bathroom, very slippery. Anyway, why shall I take the risk?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, we don't want that.
Prabhupāda: So hold meeting daily and chalk out program. Do very diligently everything so I can see that things are going on nicely without my managerial interference. That will make me happy. And I'll go on writing. There is... (pause) You are feeling all right?
Prabhupāda: You should be very much determined, strong-minded. Otherwise it will slip. Such huge property...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually these properties are the envy of all of India. They're the best properties in each place.
Prabhupāda: Not only property. Our prestige, our position... Everything is envied. Everywhere we are first class.
Prabhupāda: That :scientist said life slipped away from his...
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, somehow life escaped from his fingers. So that's a proper word. I'm quoting his word, using it as an authentic quote from them. We also use some words which will be not so favorable when they read these things, our things. We're also trying to criticize them, that they are...
Prabhupāda: That do.
Mr. Myer: ...even one is slipping...
Prabhupāda: So do nicely. And as far as our capacity is there, kṛṣṇārthe akhila-ceṣṭaḥ. Prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā śreya-ācaraṇaṁ sadā. Janma-sāphalyam... Etāvaj janma-sāphalyam. Do it. Do this. Prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā śreya-ācaraṇam. This is..., should be... This should be the motto, how we engage our life, our money, our intelligence, our words, to improve Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is success. Varṇāśrama-vibhāgaśaḥ saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam (SB 1.2.13). What is that verse, beginning?
Prabhupāda: In Mathurā why don't you go just now? He is also going?
Guest (1): (Bengali)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: See, first you have to have the certificates. That's what I'm trying to explain to Prabhupāda. This is only an identity slip. This has to be surrendered with the certificates.
Guest (1): To any post office.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right.
Prabhupāda: It will be success...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. So these are the receipts. They're not actually the certificates themselves, but they're... As you can see, it's called an identity slip. I'll just take one and read it to you. As it's mentioned... It's mentioned on the N.B., on the back side. "N.B. This slip may not be surrendered to the post office when the holder discharges only some of the certificates held by him, but must be handed over when all the certificates detailed in the slip have been cashed." So the bank will want these. You can hand them over, you take a receipt from them, that "These were given by Vrindavan-candra De to you," like that. That's when...
| Page Title: | Slip (Conversations) |
| Compiler: | Labangalatika, Govinda5677, Rishab, Visnu Murti |
| Created: | 03 of Sep, 2009 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=22, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 22 |