Reporter (2): And lastly, a very trivial question. The uniform, the haircut, why is that?
Prabhupāda: This shaving?
Reporter (2): Yes, why?
Prabhupāda: It is very nice. It makes the head cool, not with big bunch of hair, burden. We feel it burden. When there is bunch of hair, we feel it is an extra burden.
Reporter (2): An extra burden on the mind?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter (2): Makes it, weighs heavily on the mind?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Sometimes you have to take...
Reporter (2): So that's the reason why? It makes the mind lighter?
Prabhupāda: No. Actually if you keep clean yourself, then your mind is also clean.
Reporter (2): But it is... Is it really because hair presses down on the mind? Is that true?
Haṁsadūta: It's a burden, troublesome.
Reporter (2): I mean a physical burden.
Haṁsadūta: Just like you have to get some, some hair cream and then a comb and a mirror and...
Reporter (2): Well, I don't. I just get up and go like that. But I mean, I mean, I mean...
Haṁsadūta: You understand the point.
Reporter (2): Well, I mean. I do and I don't. I mean physically...
Haṁsadūta: Very clean, very clean...
Reporter (2): ...physically, it makes the hair, it makes the mind lighter. Is that true?
Haṁsadūta: Very clean, cool. Natural, practical.
Reporter (2): No, I know, but I mean, this thing about it actually weighing down on the mind, is that fair to say?
Haṁsadūta: No.
Reporter (2): It's not fair to say?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter (2): It is fair to say.
Prabhupāda: If you keep yourself very clean and light, then your mind will work very nicely.
Reporter (2): Better than if it was being weighed down.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter (2): That's fair, isn't it?
Haṁsadūta: It's a matter of cleanliness. Not when...
Reporter (2): But he also says it's a matter of weighing down on the mind. That's fair.
Prabhupāda: It is a Vedic system. All the brāhmaṇas take clean-shaved. Vedic system. So we are trying to stay in the platform of brahminical culture. Therefore it is one of the essential things.
Reporter (2): I understand that. Thank you very much from me for your help. Thank you. Bye, bye.