Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is the speciality in Punjab?
Prabhupāda: Punjab, this pilau.(?)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is...
Prabhupāda: Panir.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Panir.
Prabhupāda: Means this chānā.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: They make very nice preparation.
Bhakti-caru: Dundhuri (?) preparation.
Prabhupāda: Every province has got.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Is there a speciality in the Madhya Pradesh area?
Prabhupāda: Madhya Pradesh, they are practically South Indian.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. Then every place has its special fruits and vegetables.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It seems in that respect that Bengal is very opulent in varieties of vegetables.
Prabhupāda: And fish. They prepare varieties of preparation of fish. Māche jol, māche tal, māche dal, māchera dorma.(?) They kill this jhasere koi (?) and paste with mustard and fry it in oil. (Bengali)
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali)
Prabhupāda: They know more of fish preparation and also vegetable. (Bengali)
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali)
Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Kṛṣṇa baḍo doyāmoy, koribāre jihwā jay. Kṛṣṇa-prasāda... (Bengali conversation) The real fact is that this jīvo jīvasya jīvanam. One life is food for another life. That is nature's way. But one has to pass through so many varieties of life, evolution. Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi. How many millions of years we'll take to evolve to become a human being. Then he gets chance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Payeche mānava janma, mano rañjanam alpa.(?) Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante (BG 7.19). Emona janma, this janma, manuṣya-janma. And if we miss and don't get Kṛṣṇa, again glide down. Mām aprāpya mṛtyu-saṁsāra. Again you fall down. I'll eat you; you eat me. And the aquatic, 900,000 species, varieties of life. The same struggle, one fish eating another fish. Struggle within the water. A small fish can understand three miles away a big fish is coming. It is all stated in the Bhāgavata. This struggle is going on. Then in the jungle animals. The man-eater trees are there in Africa. Trees, man, eat man.