Brahmānanda: In India the sun is very intense.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Brahmānanda: Does that have something to do that Kṛṣṇa appeared there?
Prabhupāda: Puṇya-bhūmi, pious land. Still, so fallen, whenever there is a question of spiritual meeting, thousands, lakhs, will come. You have seen Kumbha-melā?
Brahmānanda: No.
Prabhupāda: You have seen?
Śrutakīrti: No.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: I've seen pictures. Pictures.
Prabhupāda: Very poor men, still, they gather, sixty lakhs, without any advertisement.
Brahmānanda: Here you have to advertise to get six hundred.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Or six.
Prabhupāda: And it was so nice to live there, spiritual atmosphere, on the bank of the Ganges and Yamunā. Immediately you go, you become spiritualized. Vṛndāvana is also like that. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, bhārata-bhūmite janma haila. . . manuṣya-janma haila. To get the human form of life born in India, that is a special prerogative. Bhārata-bhumite manuṣya-janma haila yāra (CC Adi 9.41). He is fifty percent prepared by birth.
Brahmānanda: Just by birth.
Prabhupāda: Yes. And then, by culture, another fifty percent. But they have given up this culture. But the birthright, fifty percent is already also there. Prayāga, severest cold, eh, I took bath in the Ganges. It is simply cutting. But still, they are taking bath and smearing over the body the ashes and sit down, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. No care, "Wherefrom food will come? Where. . .?" No. That's in India still.