Jayādvaita: You gave that other example in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that Nṛsiṁha-deva let Hiraṇyakaśipu slip from His hands for a little while just to play with him.
Nalinī-kānta: The Vedic civilization is centered around villages, not cities?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Nalinī-kānta: If we want to make the world Kṛṣṇa conscious...
Prabhupāda: Vedic civilization is in the forest. Go to the forest.
Hari-śauri: Renounce.
Prabhupāda: Neither in the city nor in the village. Go to the forest.
Lokanātha: But there were cities like Dvārakā.
Prabhupāda: That is another thing, but the ideal is vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta (SB 7.5.5). Go to the forest and depend on Kṛṣṇa and live there. And that is perfection. Vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta (SB 7.5.5). Go to the forest and remain, depending on Kṛṣṇa. That's all.
Lokanātha: There are no forests left.
Hari-śauri: The whole material world's a forest.
Prabhupāda: There are so many forests in America, full of forests still. Africa, so many forests, big, big forests.
Akṣayānanda: (break) ...Kali-yuga we cannot do that due to our conditioning.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Hari śauri: Fifth Canto describes the whole material world is a forest.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Of enjoyment.
Lokanātha: Forest of enjoyment. (break)
Prabhupāda: They go in the village for begging little food, that's all. Just like you can live in this forest. And what you will eat? Two cāpāṭi. So you can go and beg. That's all. Whole day's business finished. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Lokanātha: It's too simple to understand.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Lokanātha: It's so simple, we cannot realize how simple it is.
Akṣayānanda: But if we tried to do that, wouldn't it be sort of artificial?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Akṣayānanda: Yes. (end)