Prabhupāda: Protection is ultimately Kṛṣṇa.
Akṣayānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: It is all false thought that "He is giving me protection. He is giving me..."
Akṣayānanda: Yes. And the same person who is giving me protection, later he will ask me for protection, and then I will ask somebody else...
Prabhupāda: No, no, even when the father-mother is supposed to give protection, that is also not right conclusion. Otherwise there are so many fathers and mothers who is giving protection to his children. The father-mother, when the child is sick, the father-mother gives all—one who has got means—best medicine, best medical treatment, but the child dies. Where is the protection?
Akṣayānanda: Yes. Even that is...
Prabhupāda: It is not possible.
Akṣayānanda: So there's actually no protection in any case.
Prabhupāda: Somebody was.... Some bird was killed here?
Akṣayānanda: (break) Sometimes we see a big house and at least two or three generations are all living together, same two or three families, his mother, his...
Prabhupāda: That is joint family, yes.
Akṣayānanda: Yes, joint families. And because of that, the attachment is very strong, it appears.
Devotee (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda? After the Battle of Kurukṣetra there were many men killed. How were all the young people and the women protected after so many millions of men were killed?
Prabhupāda: What do you mean by protection?
Devotee (2): Well, I mean like Arjuna was arguing that...
Prabhupāda: That was also.... That was condemned.
Akṣayānanda: Yes, that argument was not accepted.
Prabhupāda: That argument was not accepted by Kṛṣṇa.
Devotee (2): But I mean, then how...
Prabhupāda: He proved that "You are a rascal. One who puts this argument, he's a rascal."
Akṣayānanda: That was just an excuse to avoid fighting.
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa clearly chastised him that "You are talking like a fool." Eh? Aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñā-vādān: (BG 2.11) "Talking like a very learned man, but you are a fool. No learned man speaks like that." Why they have kept this nice road within this forest? What is the idea?
Hari-śauri: There's some village on the other side?
Akṣayānanda: I don't know.