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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">You have seen Tirupati, Tirumal...? Standing for hours to contribute in a line. Hundreds of people. They'll come, contribute something. Then they'll shave their head, see the Deity, have some bath in the adjoining lake. Then they'll take prasādam. That is very big tank. Everywhere. In India, wherever some famous temple is there, there is a tank. Now the haircutting, that lakhs of rupees are sold to foreign countries is hair. Heaps. These managers, they are selling the hairs. Very big business.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Conversation -- April 29, 1977, Bombay|Morning Conversation -- April 29, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: They say that the first-class yogi is he who will have as much as possible sex but he will not discharge. Kṛṣṇa was that yogi. He had sex with so many gopīs, but He would not discharge.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They say that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the test of first-class yogi. These rascals, they say like that.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They call that tāntrika-yoga?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not know what is that also. I... One rascal fool, medical man, was attending my pharmacy. Dr. Ghosh was also. He used to say like that. He was practicing yoga.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He was... That's what they're all doing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And he'll not discharge. Still remain with his sperm. Yogi. Tāntrika-yogī.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Tāntrika.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And practice yoga in the crematorium. Nine woman friend and sex and perform meditation without discharge.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Where do they do this?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In the burning ghāṭa, where this dead body is burned.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They do this with a dead body?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh. But they go there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is called tāntrika-yoga.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In that book that had your Kṛṣṇa book quotation there's a thing about tāntrika-yoga, and this very thing is mentioned. What you're telling me now, it's mentioned there, that the test is to have sex and not allow any semina to pass. They mention that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I have mentioned?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, they quote from some other authority.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, that we...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Shall I...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, I don't...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, but it's confirmed, anyway. Yeah, that's what that Rajneesh says. They asked him, "Why are you with so many women?" He said, "This is the proof, that I am able to be with all these women but not be disturbed." But that doesn't really answer why he's with them. Our point is: "Why are you with them? Never mind whether you're disturbed or... Why are you with them? What benefit are you getting? They are not God. So why are you spending so much time with them?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is their way of sādhana.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Everyone admits that this is luxurious, fifth floor of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is luxurious. (break) ...the āṭā dough. So after it is cooked... They have got ghee. That ball soaked in ghee and the ḍāl, it is so nice when taken. That is called baṭī. Very quickly made. And after eating, with that ash the two or three utensils, mean the loṭā and the plate, they'll cleanse it very nice and walk away. And that food is sufficient for twenty-four hours. Within twenty-four hours he will not be hungry and feel very strong. The two things. And you can cook anywhere without any difficulty. In India, especially in village, you can get so many dried cow dung. So fuel is ready. The āṭā is packed up. And ghee in a pot. That's all. How simple life. Simply they'll sit down where there is water, and they'll take water. Then everything is arranged. No hotel. Or even there is no āṭā, they keep their own ghee, homemade, pure. Āṭā can be purchased anywhere in the village. There is no need of carrying āṭā. So this preparation for tourists... Tourists, Indian tourists, means going to some holy place. They have no other sightseeing, no program. All villagers, they are still... The pilgrimage in holy places, now no educated man goes. Very rarely. All these villagers by thousands... They... You see this Tirupati, Tirumala. All the contribution by the villagers. By their hard-earned money they keep something for going. You have seen Tirupati, Tirumal...? Standing for hours to contribute in a line. Hundreds of people. They'll come, contribute something. Then they'll shave their head, see the Deity, have some bath in the adjoining lake. Then they'll take prasādam. That is very big tank. Everywhere. In India, wherever some famous temple is there, there is a tank. Now the haircutting, that lakhs of rupees are sold to foreign countries is hair. Heaps. These managers, they are selling the hairs. Very big business. The foreign countries, the black hair, they purchase it at good price for making wig. (pause) So that is written nice. He wanted to criticize me, but he could not do it very strongly. He did not like the idea that I am sticking to Bhagavad-gītā. That was his... But it has been shown that our sticking to Bhagavad-gītā, that is our mission. And it is a science. Why he called sectarian? When Kṛṣṇa says anything, that is science. "Two plus two equal to four" is acceptable by everyone. Why it is sect...? Actually all religion is going on under the plea, "We believe." What is this nonsense, "We believe"? If you believe "Two plus two equal to five," will it be correct? Their religion is "We believe." So our Bhagavad-gītā is not like that. It is fact. That is the difference. (break) ...of him. I was staying there in one big room. Crazy. Alone I am.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He had tried to attack you?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, he couldn't act. Gone crazy.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Taking LSD.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So immediately I transferred myself to Jergens, keeping my goods at Mukunda's place, Michael. Then I searched out that 26 Second Avenue. From going to 26 Second Avenue taking this risk of two hundred dollars, then I became little relieved. Before that, I was simply vagabond. That was the first shelter. Then this Kīrtanānanda, Hayagrīva, Satsvarūpa, Umāpati, they guided. Brahmānanda. Some other boys also came, and they left.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Stryadhīśa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm? Stryadhīśa. So after getting that shelter, I began to grow. Everything was very precarious condition-vagabond. I was selling some books. I thought that "This boy will be trained up" when I got that place. He invited me to "Come to my loft." It was very big loft. I was holding class, collecting ten dollars. Then he was not paying rent. He gave me the charge of paying rent. So Kṛṣṇa was giving by collecting. It was on the top. Still, people were coming. Great story. Never mind. Now we... From my part, whatever is possible. Now you take care. That is my request. Don't spoil it. Now it is up to you. My, this ailment... I can pass away at any moment. My health is not good. I am old man. It is not surprising. Now you GBC, young boys, all, American, expert, you have got all intelligence, resources, so don't spoil. Let the movements go forward more and more. Now you have got nice places, filled with devotees. Don't be anxious for me. That, Kṛṣṇa will take. And even if I go, where is the harm? Old man. I have given my ideas and direction in my books. People appreciate. I think from my side I have done everything. Is it not? Do you think or not?</p>
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