They are doing that. So somebody is saying, "Yes, today I have cooked meat, but in the Ganges water." Ganges water is considered to be pious. So he thinks by cooking meat in the Ganges water, it has become purified. You see? This is our mentality. We are bent upon doing all nonsense, and we want to get it supported by religious cover. Just like recently, the Christian world, they wanted support from the Pope of contraceptive method. That contraceptive method is condemned, but they want to be supported by the religious head. "If you don't support, then you are not good man. And if you support my nonsense, then you are very good man." Just like that Maharishi came here, and he supported that "Whatever nonsense you like, you do. You simply pay me thirty-five dollars and I give you one mantra, and within six months you become God." Oh, he looted your country. And after looting, he said, "Oh, my mission is failure." Because he has got his money, now he'll go. This is going on because we want to be cheated. Therefore cheaters come and cheat us. And as soon as say, "No. Everything belongs to God, my dear friend. You don't claim anything as yours. Because it belongs to God or Kṛṣṇa, you employ everything for His service"—"Swamijī is very conservative." You see. So actually, it is the fact.
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Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Philosophy Discussions
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes, that's a fact, very good. But the best thing is monarchy, because if the monarch is rājarṣi, he is not only king... That is necessary. Kṛṣṇa wants that, that the government should be ruled; therefore we praise, offer so much respect to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Mahārāja Parīkṣit and Lord Rāmacandra, how to become an ideal king. He is Personality of Godhead. He showed how to become Rāma-rājya. So this is very good because it is not expensive. One man is maintained by the state very nicely, and nowadays these democracies' mob rule means instead of one king there are 300,000 kings in a state, and they are looting the hard-earned money by income tax, and everything is so polluted. So the condemnation of democracy is supported by us. It is mob rule. It has no value.
Hayagrīva: Socrates and Plato.
Prabhupāda: That's all right.
Hayagrīva: They had city states that were, uh...
Prabhupāda: Mini-states.
Hayagrīva: ...democracy. They were, they were so small that everyone could get together.
Prabhupāda: Pañcayat, in India it was pañcayat. So each man of the village, it is to reduce the responsibility of the state if that small cases, the pañcayat, some of the important men of the village they would sit together, and whatever they will decide, that the state will accept, court will accept. So minimize the responsibility of the court in deciding several cases. So in the India the Pañcayat system is there.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: No, I asked him that "Whether you can take charge?" He refused, "No, I cannot take charge." You know that?
Gurukṛpā: Yes, I heard.
Prabhupāda: Then Brahmānanda give me assurance. "I can take charge." Therefore I signed. But factually, he was as good as Madhudviṣa. (laughs) He made a contract with a, that camp, forty thousand rupees. I settled up for ten thousand rupees. So our work is going on in India and money's spent. Fifty percent is spoiled by this American brain. What can be done? There is no... They'll loot. They cheat. Like anything. Just like this camp. It was, it was Brahmānanda and Madhudviṣa combined together made a contract-forty thousand rupees. Then I said that "Then I am not going to pay you. You go." In Kumbha Melā also, the contract was ten thousand. So five thousand already paid. So I said, "I have no money. You have to become satisfied with the ten thousand." So they began some trouble, but after all, accepted. Because they make five hundred percent profit.
Gurukṛpā: As soon as they see American, it becomes twice as much.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Twice not. Five hundred times. (laughter) As soon as they face: "They're Americans. They have got money."
Gurukṛpā: Same thing in market. When they go shopping and...
Prabhupāda: Yes. "Damn cheap." "Damn cheap, bābu." I have told this story, "Damn cheap, bābu"? Eh?
Gurukṛpā: No. (end)
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Jayapatāka: I took a jeep also.
Prabhupāda: No, no.
Jayapatāka: The card. I got your passbook and deposit book.
Prabhupāda: Baro baro pet. How you are being looted. Just see. Farce. They are making farce and taking money.
Jayapatāka: Who?
Prabhupāda: These rascals. Don't you see?
Jayapatāka: This was done since I left.
Prabhupāda: I told that this is being farce, and somebody told me you have guaranteed. And the other day, when I was walking, I said, "This is going to be farce," and somebody told me, "They have guaranteed."
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Around the kuṇḍa, around the tank, putting up there, paṇḍal.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The same man?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No.
Prabhupāda: Where is Jayapatāka?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Jayapatāka Mahārāja. (break) ...almost sixty years.
Maṇihāra: The sergeants and corporals go first. The leaders of the battalion, they will go first to start to ravage and loot, and then all their men will follow.
Prabhupāda: Everywhere, huh? So I have seen in Calcutta outside villages. So my maternal uncle's house was their "Tally-on." (?) So when they used to come there was a, what is called rumor, "Soldiers come..." They'll captured any woman from the street. No restrictions.
Maṇihāra: They are simply killing, killing, killing, for no reason; therefore this killing turns into..., they turn into animal. So when they see woman, they...
Prabhupāda: So everywhere the same business. The soldiers are let loose in the villages.
Pradyumna: Śrīla Prabhupāda? What is the program? Will you becoming down?
Prabhupāda: Why not? Yes. As soon as ready I shall go.
Pradyumna: As soon as ready you will come. We're not waiting for any minister or something to come or anything?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Hari-śauri: He's supposed to be here now.
Prabhupāda: Just see if he's coming actually. Otherwise...
Pradyumna: But as soon as we are ready you will come down?
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Anything he does, he's going to lose the money.
Prabhupāda: Yes, that's all.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I know that also.
Prabhupāda: And his assistant is looting him.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. He thinks this assistant is his greatest friend. Just like he's leaving on a plane. He's going to arrive Monday morning by eight o'clock in the morning, yet he feels he has to send a telegram to his assistant on a Sunday. I said, "What is the point of sending a telegram? The telegram will reach after you arrive. And even if it doesn't, what is the purpose of sending a telegram?"
Prabhupāda: No, no, he has no business friend. He should not be given a farthing. That is my conclusion. And the postal, they should be given to the respective...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: As previously planned.
Prabhupāda: Yes. You can call him. I shall tell him.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. I'll just send someone. Practically speaking, when I talk with him, with Vrindavan, I can only think in terms of a charity case, because when I talk to him about business, it's like talking to a young child. He doesn't grasp. I have to tell him the same thing ten times in a row. It's not that he doesn't understand English. He understands English quite all right. But he can't grasp simple business ideas. He's very... He just doesn't have it within him. They should be devotees.
| Page Title: | Loot |
| Compiler: | Visnu Murti, RupaManjari |
| Created: | 03 of Jan, 2013 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=4, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 6 |