Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You had said that before a few times also. They are completely restricted in every respect. Whereas in other Euro..., East European countries and in Russia, the professors may read various types of literature, in China they're not allowed to do that. And if they are ever caught doing that, they immediately are sentenced to prison and they lose everything. And they're very... The difference in China as opposed to Russia is that in China every few years all the professors are made to be farmers. And also the workers in the factories and the farmers are the predominant controllers of the universities. They are not at all interested in culture or in higher education. Their whole purpose even for the universities is to train up loyal Chinese citizens. Everything is for that end. So no cultural interest would ever be tolerated on the part of the authorities there. And the people are so much controlled by these authorities that they would lose everything.
Prabhupāda: Sa eva go-kharaḥ (SB 10.84.13). (pause)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? You said before that you..., that it is said that you were poisoned?
Prabhupāda: No. These kind of symptoms are seen when a man is poisoned. He said like that. Not that I am poisoned.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. Did anyone tell you that, or you just know it from before?
Prabhupāda: I read something.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Ah, I see. That's why actually we cannot allow anyone else to cook for you.
Prabhupāda: That is good.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jayapatāka Mahārāja was telling that one ācārya, Śaṅkarācārya..., of the Śaṅkarācārya line—this was a while ago—he was poisoned to death. Since that time, none of the ācāryas or the gurus of the Śaṅkarācārya line will ever take any food cooked except by their own men.
Prabhupāda: My Guru Mahārāja also.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh. You, of course, have been so merciful that sometimes you would take prasāda cooked by so many different people.
Prabhupāda: That should be stopped.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hmm. (pause) Are you feeling any pain, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: No. (pause) Urine bottle.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Urine? You want to try for it? Okay. Should we again continue some kīrtana Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Hmm.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay.
Upendra: Fixed up. (Haṁsadūta leads kīrtana)
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Through.
Upendra: Fifty, Śrīla Prabhupāda.