Gargamuni: The Chief Minister wrote that the East India Company purchased twenty acres of land and rules India for two hundred years. That was his reply to our application.
Prabhupāda: Chief Minister said?
Gargamuni: Yes. They're afraid that by taking this, we will rule India.
Jayapatākā: Anyway, that's a very frivolous statement. That was a frivolous statement.
Prabhupāda: No, that, ruling over India, they politically ruled.
Jayapatākā: But we're not politicians.
Prabhupāda: Even if we are rule, we shall rule spiritually. We have nothing to do with politics.
Jayapatākā: That's the point. That's why even the Chief Secretary, he became...
Gargamuni: They didn't take it seriously. The Chief Secretary and Mr. Choudhuri did not take that very seriously, that comment. It's a frivolous comment.