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If we go village to village. The village people are still pure, at least not so polluted as the town people, or especially the so-called educated

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"If we go village to village. The village people are still pure, at least not so polluted as the town people, or especially the so-called educated"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Indian man (2): How can we fast move in India to spread our Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Prabhupāda: Hmm? Indian man (2): How can we spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Prabhupāda: If we go village to village. The village people are still pure, at least not so polluted as the town people, or especially the so-called educated. (break) . . . hari-kīrtana koro . . . (Bengali) We held this hari-kīrtana in Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay. Oh, at least fifteen to thirty thousand people were daily . . . even from the office, with coats and pants, they are dancing. And they asked me, "Swāmījī, continue it." (break) Indian man (2): I traveled all over India so many years, place to place, but I found the Gujarati is one of the best where the people has there some natural-born Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Prabhupāda: Well, it is all proportionate, that . . . you are paying rent for this room where I am staying, $175 per month?Uttamaśloka: It has just been changed to 175 from 150.Prabhupāda: Ah. So out of five hundred dollars, if you have to pay 175 rent, then why it is not poverty? Almost one third money is finished by paying rent. (break) . . . seen in India the Narmada Falls? Huh? Jabalpur? Ah, it is wonderful.Indian man (1): The location of that church is very nice, because there are so many thousands of cars pass every morning and in the evening.Prabhupāda: Where?Indian man (1): Avenue Road. It is very busy street. There are so many cars coming in the morning, I think, twenty thousand a day.Prabhupāda: Yes. And they will see the signboard. (break)Indian man (2): . . . that India, I traveled after several years. And I last went in 1966. It was not so demonic. But this time I found the younger generation of India is very, very demonic, and they don't believe God at all.Prabhupāda: Yes.Indian man (2): What is the reason of that?Prabhupāda: They have been taught by your rascal leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru and company. These rascals taught them.Indian man (2): Jawaharlal Nehru was representing the India from so many years.Prabhupāda: Yes. And therefore he has ruined.Indian man (2): He is ruining since our, before born, in 1930.Prabhupāda: Well, that was the beginning, but he completed the finishing touch. Sometimes he came to Vṛndāvana—I was there, retired—to open a Ramakrishna Mission hospital, and he stayed there the whole day. He came in the morning and went back to New Delhi in the evening, but not a single temple he visited. Where thousands of men are coming to see the temple, but he, the prime minister, he did not visit, not a single temple.Indian man (2): He accepted as spiritual master, some sort of . . . his teacher is Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi. So he was teaching him the same thing what he has learned. From here he learned all this knowledge which has spoiled our Indian culture?Prabhupāda: No, Gandhi had no spiritual knowledge. He was little moralist, that's all. That was also good. But these men are not even moralist.Indian man (2): How can we fast move in India to spread our Kṛṣṇa consciousness?Prabhupāda: Hmm?Indian man (2): How can we spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness?Prabhupāda: If we go village to village. The village people are still pure, at least not so polluted as the town people, or especially the so-called educated. (break) . . . hari-kīrtana koro . . . (Bengali) We held this hari-kīrtana in Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay. Oh, at least fifteen to thirty thousand people were daily . . . even from the office, with coats and pants, they are dancing. And they asked me, "Swāmījī, continue it." (break)Indian man (2): I traveled all over India so many years, place to place, but I found the Gujarati is one of the best where the people has there some natural-born Kṛṣṇa consciousness.Prabhupāda: Yes. That's fact. Everywhere—Gujaratis, Marwaris, Punjabis—more or less, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is there. (break)Indian man (2): May I ask you one question? What is the future of India regarding the Kṛṣṇa consciousness? The people are so much demonic. It every time bothers me, day and night, that what will happen? The people don't have respect for the olders. They just harass. I was with my wife, too, and I found the . . . we talk about the Kṛṣṇa, and they just laugh it. They say: "There is nothing like that." They made so much fun, the young generation, that "You are a modern boy, and you are believing in that?" Just I found. I can't understand that how we can change over to the Indian future about Kṛṣṇa consciousness?Prabhupāda: If we preach, it will be all right. That is going on perpetually, darkness and light. If you bring light, darkness will go out, will be driven away.kṛṣṇa sūrya sama māyā andhakārayāhan kṛṣṇa tāhan nāhi māyāra adhikāra(CC Madhya 22.31)Just like now there is sunshine. Although it is not very bright, but still the darkness of night has gone away. So bring in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; it will go away. (break)Indian man (2): In Haridwar I have been recently, and I met one of my uncle's wife. He's . . . my uncle's father was a very big mahanta. He was having quite in a big numbers, maybe in lakhs or you can say million, half million to million, like disciples. And what he was using in whole life, the disciples' money, for his own pleasure or his wife and children's. And at the end of it he took his sannyāsa. Only just few years after that, he died. And I found there in a lot of mahāntas, they have a temples, they are using there lot of jewels, gold and money, and they have a business, like that. And thousand of educated people visit, and they believe that this is all they are doing, show off, and there is no God. This is bewildering everybody's mind. Is there any. . . we have some system that we can conquer those people by means to . . . those young generation of their children, they really looking for the truth. I met one mahānta, his son. He is very educated boy. He met impersonalist leader, and he misguided, and they are leading their life just like a, you can say, I don't want to use bad word, like pigs. They are eating and sleeping and mating same as there are others people doing.

Page Title:If we go village to village. The village people are still pure, at least not so polluted as the town people, or especially the so-called educated
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-02-03, 15:18:00
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