Rāmeśvara: I heard that you once said: "Lawyer means liar."
Prabhupāda: Yes. (laughs)
Rāmeśvara: I'm going to go get that survey to show Prabhupāda. It's printed . . .
Prabhupāda: The Bankim Babu, Bankim Chatterji, a famous novelist, he wrote a book, one comic book. Trial is going on, so the witness charged the . . . first of all the judge charged that, "I see you are witness in every case." (laughs) He was a professional. So, "You are speaking he is sixty years old for the last five years. You do not increase your age?" (laughing) "No, sir. A gentleman has one word. He does not change his word."
Gargamuni: Oh, I see. He had one word, sixty years.
Prabhupāda: "And do not think me that I am either a lawyer or a prostitute or a newspaper editor."
Gargamuni: Oh. Because they're all liars. Yes.
Prabhupāda: "My word is one. I do not change my word."
Gargamuni: So a newspaper editor, a lawyer . . .
Prabhupāda: And a prostitute. (laughs)
Gargamuni: And a prostitute. They're all . . .
Prabhupāda: (laughing) He classified them in one category.
Gargamuni: Especially these newspapers. When you give an interview, they always print something else.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Gargamuni: They never print exactly what one says.
Prabhupāda: They're not honest.
Gargamuni: No.