There was scarcity
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: I think I..., Germany, in the war, they extracted fat from stool because stool is full of fat and hypophosphytes. Stool. So there was scarcity of fat. So they were extracting fat from stool. By scientific method. There was no fat available in wartime. That my Godbrother, Sadānanda, when he came India, so I asked him that: "Your German people, I've heard that German people are very stout and strong. Why you are lean and thin?" So he replied that: "During the war days, there was control. So I was getting fat, butter, simply because we were children." He showed his wrist watch, "to this, this much. Only for children, this much butter, weekly, once." That means under, under-nourished. So therefore they are finding out fat from stool. And in the concentration camp, Kīrtanānanda told me, actually they ate their own stools. And who was telling me...? Śrutakīrti, you were telling me that in the, what is called? Capsule? They turn their stool into food.
Śrutakīrti: Oh, that wasn't me. No.
Karandhara: No, they turn the urine, they turn the urine into water.
Śrutakīrti: But someone was saying they also turn their stool into food.1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Just like one man becomes insolvent, loses everything. So he said that "I had no money. Therefore I become insolvent." But that is not the fact. He could not manage; therefore there was scarcity of money and he became failure. So that is effect. On account of his bad management, he came to a position that he could not pay to his creditor, and his business is failure. So that insolvency is not the cause. It is the effect.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Bhīṣma was able to remain in his body even on a bed of arrows.
Prabhupāda: So when you are going to die, these are the... On account of imminent death, these are the effects.1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Correspondence
1973 Correspondence
Page Title: | There was scarcity |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Serene |
Created: | 19 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=4, Con=3, Let=1 |
No. of Quotes: | 8 |