Pañca-draviḍa: I have experienced that directly in India, Prabhupāda, because I'm working with these merchants all the time, and the government is nationalizing and taking over one industry after another. They took over the control of flour, they took over the control of sugar, they've already got rice, then they took over the exportation of textiles. And I say, "Don't you have anything in your Constitution to prevent this?" They said, "No. We have voted in the government for six years; they can do as they like. The only way is to wait six years and vote them out again. But there is no provision..."
Prabhupāda: The future is not very nice. And government management means no one's servant.
Pañca-draviḍa: No what?
Prabhupāda: No one's servant. Everyone's servant means no one's servant. They are no one's servant.
Pañca-draviḍa: They will never give you anything.
Prabhupāda: Comparatively, life in foreign countries nice. Because I am seeing, from materialistic point of view. In America, you can get anything without any control. Any amount, anything.
Gurudāsa: There is more supply than demand.
Indian man: Than demand, yes. That is the problem there: what to do with the stuff that you have got and that you are producing. That's an economic problem.
Pañca-draviḍa: Not just supply, quality. When you buy an orange and you have a glass of orange juice, it's orange, it's not yellow. (laughter)
Devotee (3): But by their lack of demand, we are reaping a harvest.
Prabhupāda: Yes, especially in California, oranges, if you compare orange here available... Dates, first-class dates, first-class orange. There is watermelon. All season you get watermelon, karmuj(?). First-class watermelon. And karmuj. And what is that special karmuj produced in Keśi-ghāṭa? That greenish?
Gurudāsa: Honeydew?
Indian man: There is no special name for it.
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is special in Vṛndāvana. That greenish.
Indian man: Special quality.
Prabhupāda: Yes, in your country it is called honey comb.
Devotees: Honeydew.
Prabhupāda: Honeydew, yes. So I immediately remember your Keśi-ghāṭa karmuj, first class. So sweet, little greenish. But you can get all the year round. Actually America is favored. Therefore, I repeatedly say that you Americans, you are graced by God, you simply take this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you will become first-class nation. And actually they are taking more than other countries.