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One who has got money but no children, he takes some adopted son. So the adopted son thinks that, "I have got so much money," and he has never worked. He is spoiled

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"One who has got money but no children, he takes some adopted son. So the adopted son thinks that" |"I have got so much money" |"and he has never worked. He is spoiled"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: Because he gets money. Adopted . . . one who has got money but no children, he takes some adopted son. So the adopted son thinks that, "I have got so much money," and he has never worked. He is spoiled. I have seen many adopted son in our . . . got lakhs and lakhs of rupees, and in one night he's spoiled everything, simply after woman and wine. I have seen it.

Prabhupāda: There is one gentleman, Sadajiwatlal in Bombay. You know him?

Akṣayānanda: Sadaji Mahatma?

Prabhupāda: Sadajiwatlal.

Akṣayānanda: Oh, yes.

Prabhupāda: Chandu proprietor.

Akṣayānanda: I know about him. I know of him.

Prabhupāda: He . . . he is very intelligent. He has said to a friend that Bhaktivedanta Swami sata-mukāla . . . (indistinct) . . . kāla means that he has made all other so-called sannyāsīs, yogīs, black-faced.

Akṣayānanda: (laughs) Jaya. He is intelligent.

Prabhupāda: Bhaktivedanta Swami sata-mukāla . . . (indistinct)

Akṣayānanda: It's true. It's true.

Prabhupāda: Now here is a big sannyāsī, Akhandanandan, or Bon Maharaja. They are supposed to be big, big sannyāsī.

Akṣayānanda: I do not know what Akhandanandan does.

Prabhupāda: Anyway, . . . (indistinct) . . .. And this Anandamaya. Actually, I am not proud, but what they have done in comparison to me?

Akṣayānanda: Yes, they've done nothing.

Prabhupāda: He has said sata-mukāla . . . (indistinct)

Akṣayānanda: Mukāla.

Prabhupāda: Kāla. Kāla means lajjita, black face. Everyone should be ashamed. They may be envious on account of their failure, but if you come to the actual valuation, sata-mukāla . . . (indistinct) . . . that's a fact.

Hari-śauri: Actually, that Bon Maharaja is very black anyway.

Prabhupāda: He's so black, there is no more black required. (laughter) A black snake. (Bengali) In Bengal it is said if a brāhmin is black, he is dangerous.

Akṣayānanda: If a brāhmin is black?

Prabhupāda: That means he's not pure brāhmin. Brāhmin cannot be black. Just like a European, if he becomes black, that means he has mixture. European and American, if he's black, that means mixture. So brāhmin family, how it has . . . still, family, it must be very fair, śukla. Brāhmin, kṣatriya family must be very beautiful. If he's pure. Kāla brāhmaṇa prakāśa śūdra (Bengali) beki poṣya-putro pasaraila. It is a slang language. (laughter) Kāla brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa should not be black, and śūdra should not be white. And a Musselman should not be dwarf. Because formerly, real Musselmens were coming from Kabul, Afghanistan. That is called . . . (indistinct) . . . If a Musselman is dwarf, that means he is not real. (Bengali) Prostitute's son, and poṣya-putra, adopted son. They are all of the same class. How this selection? Black brāhmin, white śūdra, dwarf Musselman, and prostitute's son and adopted son. Adopted son, he gets money without any earning and spends like . . . I have seen so many adopted sons.

Hari-śauri: Adopted son, oh.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like our . . . Haṁsadūta's wife, what is name? She has adopted a son.

Hari-śauri: Oh, Himāvatī.

Prabhupāda: Himāvatī. It is not like that. But generally, adopted son means spoiled son.

Akṣayānanda: Spoiled. Spoiled brat.

Prabhupāda: Because he gets money. Adopted . . . one who has got money but no children, he takes some adopted son. So the adopted son thinks that, "I have got so much money," and he has never worked. He is spoiled. I have seen many adopted son in our . . . got lakhs and lakhs of rupees, and in one night he's spoiled everything, simply after woman and wine. I have seen it. There was one gentleman, Narendranath Singh. Very big, palatial building and very rich man. And I have seen him when he was finished. He was friend of big, big person, Raja Maharlal. And one day I saw in Calcutta, in . . . (indistinct) . . . there was raining and he was sitting in a ricksha. And no friend. He had known practically all big men of Calcutta, friend. Nobody is coming. "Well, Narendra, you are sitting. Come on in my car." Nobody. I was . . . (indistinct) . . . and he was drenching, there was heavy rain. And sitting in a . . . and he was keeping Rolls Royce car.

Page Title:One who has got money but no children, he takes some adopted son. So the adopted son thinks that, "I have got so much money," and he has never worked. He is spoiled
Compiler:PoojaA
Created:2022-09-14, 13:58:35
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1