Akṣayānanda: When I go away and I come back and the wall is broken what can I do?
Prabhupāda: Don't go.
Akṣayānanda: That's right.
Prabhupāda: You don't manufacture idea. Don't go to (indistinct) others to manufacture ideas.
Akṣayānanda: Right, right.
Prabhupāda: Simply manufacturing idea.
Akṣayānanda: I understand.
Prabhupāda: In Bombay also they have manufactured idea. One hole, one lift. There is no need, and you have manufactured some idea. Very expert in manufacturing nonsense ideas.
Hari-śauri: The thing is how to distinguish between what's a good idea...
Prabhupāda: You have to take ideas from your guru.
Akṣayānanda: From intelligence.
Prabhupāda: Therefore gurum evābhigacchet. Why do you manufacture yourself? Consult the authority. Then do it. That is intelligence. Why do you think that you are very intelligent? That is materialism. The more you remain that "I am a fool," that is good. And as soon as you become over-intelligent, then, that's finished. So Europeans, Americans, they are over-intelligent. They have intelligence, over-intelligence. Unnecessarily. They manufacture a machine for shaving. Gnowgnowgnow gnowgnow (makes machine sound). (Laughter) And they have wasted so much time. So much time. But people like it.
Akṣayānanda: Prabhupāda, if we don't use soap, the question has come up, how to wash the clothes. How to wash the cloth. If you do not use any soap, the question has come up, how to wash cloth. By beating only? Sufficient?
Prabhupāda: For washing cloth you require soap. But does not... You require everything, but because you are spending without any sense... So I calculated yesterday the whole thing, Deity worship, Deity pūjā, will require five hundred rupees per month.
Akṣayānanda: I had requested for the flowers, Viśvambhara said twelve rupees you had decided last night.
Prabhupāda: Twelve rupees, thirteen rupees...
Akṣayānanda: Twelve, thirteen. Actually today, I wanted for today but the flower man was not able to... We could not catch him in time. But from tomorrow it will start, definitely.
Prabhupāda: The thing is that one who is cheating you, he will cheat in twelve rupees, also he will cheat in fifty rupees.
Akṣayānanda: Yes, I know.
Prabhupāda: He knows how to cheat you.
Akṣayānanda: Yes, they're expert.
Prabhupāda: Where do they get flowers?
Akṣayānanda: There are two flower men. They come here from Bankibehari. Now Viśvambhara has made two, because they make a competition between each other and therefore they keep down. But...
Prabhupāda: Nobody is honest.
Akṣayānanda: But still old flowers are coming. Still, old flowers are coming. We're getting cheap, but old ones are coming. Brown flowers, old ones are coming. It's just by experience, Prabhupāda...
Prabhupāda: Where they get flower?
Akṣayānanda: Wherefrom? The actual flower men? I don't know.
Prabhupāda: In the market the flowers are not sold?
Akṣayānanda: I don't know. Viśvambhara said that this was the best. Viśvambhara is very expert. He's supremely expert at catching these cheaters. But even he gets cheated sometimes. Even things go by and he doesn't notice. He's very, very expert. If I ever get to be as expert as him, then maybe something good will happen. But even he is also being cheated sometimes.