Prabhupāda: (indistinct). Here the government is... (indistinct) people do not like (indistinct) Because you are there with Caitya Guru not very able but he stands for (indistinct)
(break) that is the problem. (indistinct) but you do not like. Always (indistinct). So we must finish it that another attempt for Bharatpur I don’t think we can manage
(break) will be available so you should not mind but that is not also possible because Mahārāja is bargaining (indistinct) so why should we take care (indistinct)
Acyutānanda: (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Acyutānanda: (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: We will come there someday.
Śyāmasundara: Eh?
Acyutānanda: Someday.
Prabhupāda: Someday (laughs) (indistinct) utopian, someday. That Mahārāja is more intelligent than you could have understand.
Acyutānanda: Yeah. (break)
Prabhupāda: (indistinct) (break).
(in room)
Pañca-draviḍa: Lot of Germans. Or at least a percentage of Germans 40, 50%. But here we have centres that are already having 15 or 20 Western people. So the image is there are already if they are a Western organisation. So even in Europe we tend to attract more Americans than European people. Like in Germany we will attract more Americans than we will Germans, initially. But after a while the Germans come but usually the best success as far as attracting people seems to be when there is only two or three people left in the whole city. But when you have a large number of Americans (break)
Śyāmasundara: I have noticed the most we’ve been travelling around the world, that in India the spiritual standard of the devotees is lower than in America part of the reason has been that the sannyāsīs who are supposed to be leaders of devotees have misunderstood that what their real duty is in India, in America we told them that the sannyāsīs duty is to maintain the highest spiritual standards among the devotees. They should always see to the devotees spiritual well-being and welfare. And here it seems to be the tendency that the sannyāsīs remain separate or aloof from the devotees.
You summed it up in four words to Satsvarūpa when you said, "just do as I am doing." Now that means administrating managing going to the bank, counting money, keeping accounts. Doing all the practical work as well but here for instance in a test case this Keśī Ghat temple. There was practically chaos there day and night there was no spiritual standards at all and the sannyāsīs seemed to remain aloof. They didn’t enter into the actual managing or administrating of the temple or organising it and as a result there was chaos throughout the town we made such a bad image.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct)
Devotee: (indistinct)
Śyāmasundara: Because we have no spiritual standards.
Acyutānanda: (indistinct)
Śyāmasundara: No. I know I observed saw there was no standard or organisation. Not as we have in other places (indistinct).
Prabhupāda: Anyway, (indistinct) to say. Sannyāsīs should be leader.
Acyutānanda: (indistinct)
Śyāmasundara: That's a fact.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Pañca-draviḍa: In other parts of the world the sannyāsīs may be accepted as leaders before... The other devotees there are new and they look to the sannyāsīs for guidance because they are the senior most members in that particular area who are not often enough present there so they have no one else to look to. (break)
Prabhupāda: Yes sannyāsīs should take leadership and see that everything is nicely going on. That will be wanted. Actually sannyāsīs are topmost leaders they should see that they are chanting 16 rounds, rising early in the morning and they should also rise early, behave like that and if there is any discrepancy it should not be ended by fighting. If there is any discrepancy there should be very peaceful settlement. Not that because this man (indistinct) pain, let us fight. (indistinct) beating justified. Somebody has told me the beating was justified. (indistinct).
Pañca-draviḍa: He beat that boy because that boy was physically attacking me to hurt me. If he did not stop him I would have been seriously hurt Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: No, that's all right, (indistinct) So why you are misunderstanding this now. (indistinct) That check, not that because he is coming I shall not kick, then where is my direction? I’m going to check that, not that I’ll also become demon-like. First have to stop...Stop the fighting between them when there was no ways to stop the fighting then war was declared. (break)
This has gone to the police we should not... we should be very careful. But Caitanya (break) sannyāsīra alpa chidra bāhu kori mane, if a sannyāsī commits something wrong it is magnified. If ordinary man does it nobody cares for it. But a sannyāsī, Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī a preacher if he commits something even if it is not wrong it will be magnified, alpa chidra bāhu kori mane.
Therefore especially a sannyāsī because a sannyāsī is supposed to be the guru, the teacher of everyone. Even of the brāhmaṇas. How much qualified they should be? Super-most post in the human society according to Vedic principle. Any sannyāsī you should immediately offer obeisances, if he does not do so then he has to starve one day, fast that is the penance. He has not offered, you’ve seen? No (indistinct) will offer respects to a sannyāsī. That is Vedic culture. They should see everywhere that things are going on nicely. (break) (end)