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The Bhagavata says, sva-vi-varahostra-kharai samstutah. Here is one big animal, and the small animals voting him. That's all. This is the society, animal society

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

The Bhāgavata says, sva-vi-varāhoṣṭra-kharai saṁstutaḥ. Here is one big animal, and the small animals voting him, that's all. This is the society, animal society—the small animals praising the big animals. That's all. All of them are animals only.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: . . .the scientists cannot immediately accept authority of the Bhāgavatam, that it will take hundreds of years.

Prabhupāda: Less intelligent. No intelligence. Therefore I was quoting that, śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstuta puruṣaḥ paśuḥ (SB 2.3.19). These class of scientists and such, they are eulogized by small rascals. They are rascals, and small rascals. . . That is actually happening. Just like your President Nixon. How he was being given reception, crowd. Hundreds and thousands of people used to come. And then again get him down, make him humiliated as far as possible. So this is a rascal, Nixon, and the person who elected him, they are rascals. Therefore the Bhāgavata says, sva-vi-varāhoṣṭra-kharai saṁstutaḥ. Here is one big animal, and the small animals voting him, that's all. This is the society, animal society—the small animals praising the big animals. That's all. All of them are animals only.

Devotee: The big animals also prey on the small animals.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Mutual praising society. That's all. "I praise you, and you praise me. I say you are very big; you say I am very big." That's all. And compromise: "I don't criticize you; you don't criticize me." That's all. (break) In the womb the child got life, and when the. . . Sometimes some child comes, stunt. By process again he cries. So why the dead child is not brought into life by that? What do you call dead?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Stillborn. Still. When it's born dead.

Prabhupāda: So. . . No, no. How the life came? How it became dead? (pause) This is eucalyptus? Very hard. Eucalyptus?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It has smell.

Page Title:The Bhagavata says, sva-vi-varahostra-kharai samstutah. Here is one big animal, and the small animals voting him. That's all. This is the society, animal society
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-27, 15:36:45
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1