Prabhupāda: Who is giving the tree food? Huh? (Hindi) Stout and strong. What is the answer? Who gives them food?
Tejiyas: Kṛṣṇa is giving.
Prabhupāda: But these rascals, they cannot understand. They are making economic development. They have no program for economic development. How they're eating?
Harikeśa: Well, they're not in very good shape, either. I mean they have to stand . . .
Prabhupāda: But you are also in not very good shape.
Harikeśa: But I mean I can put on a coat. They're standing out in the cold.
Prabhupāda: (laughing) In your country nobody likes white; they have begun to tan. So you are not good shape in consideration of ladies. (chuckling) How you can say that it is not in good shape? It has got another lady to appreciate. You may not appreciate. One man . . . lady, may not appreciate your beauty, but that does not mean you are not beautiful.
Caitya-guru: It says Ulu.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Caitya-guru: Name of that tree.
Prabhupāda: Ulu.
Harikeśa: Sometimes the trees just die because there's not sufficient . . .
Prabhupāda: No, no. That is not the standard, that you do not like somebody, therefore he is not liked by others. That is not very good argument. That is applicable everywhere. The point is that it is a living entity, it so stout and strong; who is giving him food? That is the point.
Harikeśa: Well, my argument was sometimes he's not being supplied the proper way, so therefore economic development is necessary.
Prabhupāda: All right. That is your . . . out of 8,400,000 forms of life, the economic development is taken a few only. Why others they're developing without any economy? There are so many other living entities.
Harikeśa: Well, for example, the bees or the ants, they're . . . the bees are making hives.
Prabhupāda: They are also.
Harikeśa: They are developing a big beehive.
Prabhupāda: No, no, that is collection of food. The trees also do that. They are called pāda-pa. Pāda-pa means they drink water by the legs. You drink water by the mouth, and they drink water by the legs. Pāda-pa. Just like the, what is called, bats. They pass stool through the mouth. Is it not? You do not know this? Yes. (laughter) You'll find the bats, they are hanging down the head, and they're passing stool. Sometimes man also does so, when there is strangulation. That is very dangerous disease. What is called? Intestine strangulation. Then passes stool through the mouth. In Bengal sometimes they curse, "You'll pass stool through the mouth!" Yes, sometimes they do. Sometimes they eat through the rectum. Do you know that?
Haṁsadūta: No.