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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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<div class="heading">Because they are fed by the visitors.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana|Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They were expert like that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, they were very good politician. (pause) I can say, in the British period there was no scarcity, and leniency. I recall the way. Didn't require... And when they like... With three hundred rupees they were so happy. Now you calculate that three hundred rupees means ten thousand. So where is that ten thousand rupees?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, only the wealthier...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: For children one anna tiffin is sufficient. One anna. (looking at monkeys) You see?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, a whole family of them. This is their feeding place, the garbage can here. They don't come when they see people, though. Around all the holy places I always see a lot of monkeys and cows in India. Is there some reason, special, about... I mean, cows, there's obvious reason, but what about the monkeys? Why are they around the holy places?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because they are fed by the visitors.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They like them. The visitors like the monkeys.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Here you'll find many of...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I remember in the Rādhā-Govinda Temple in Jaipur, oh, the monkeys, they lived there as regular citizens practically. And they're very friendly there. They come up and they hold their hand out.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That Kṛṣṇa was giving the monkeys. Monkeys were pet, not as enemy.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa treated the monkeys as a pet?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Friends.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Friends.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He was giving butter. In the forest playing with them.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Imitating also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Playing. If you give them to eat something, they become friendly.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They're intelligent.</p>
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