Guest (1): I would like to ask about the writings and where they came from and so on, but you go first.
Guest (2): You should read the book. I have a very good friend, a brahmin friend in the Indian Atomic Energy Commission. How do you view the development of the potential for nuclear explosions in India?
Prabhupāda: Yes I have, from the revealed scripture we can understand from . . . (aside) You have got the first part of Bhāgavatam?
Cāru: Yes, right here. Part One?
Prabhupāda: The Aśvatthāmā released the brahmāstra?
Satsvarūpa: That's not in that book. That's in Three, I think.
Prabhupāda: Similar nuclear, nuclear weapon was there. It was called brahmāstra. So when this brahmāstra was released by one Aśvatthāmā, the same symptoms of nuclear weapon . . . (to devotees) Kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā bāho. That is . . .
Satsvarūpa: We don't have that volume.
Prabhupāda: Why you are lacking? You say you have got enough books. I inquired from you in the morning. You said: "Yes, we have got enough stock."
Madhudviṣa: We have them, but we do not have them here.
Prabhupāda: No, that is not . . . here are people coming, gentlemen coming.
Madhudviṣa: The question was, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that he wanted to know what you are, what you are thinking about India, India's . . .
Prabhupāda: I am not thinking of India. I am not thinking of India. I am thinking for the whole human society. Anyway, why shall I think for India? Vasudhā eva kuṭumbakam. When we become God conscious, then we don't think in that way, "I am Indian," "I am Englishman," "I am Australian," "I am this." No. We don't think. This is the crippled thinking of the materialistic person. Paṇḍitāḥ sama darśinaḥ (BG 5.18). (aside) Find out this verse.
- vidyā-vinaya-sampanne
- brāhmaṇe gavi hastini
- śuni caiva śva-pāke ca
- paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ
- (BG 5.18)