Prabhupāda: Playing, joining. "Get . . . be alive, be alive." Like that.
Hari-śauri: Is that Jarāsandha?
Pradyumna: Then translation, "In the womb of two other wives, two parts were begotten from Bṛhadratha. The mothers, seeing such parts, rejected them. Later on, one she-demon by the name Jarā joined the parts." Then sounded like "Engaged"?
Prabhupāda: Playfully.
Pradyumna: Playfully? "Joined the parts playfully"?
Prabhupāda: Joining playfully.
Pradyumna: Then she said, jīva jīva?
Prabhupāda: "Get into life! Get into life!"
Pradyumna: "And having been joined by Jarā in this way . . ." "In this way, having been joined by Jarā, the son Jarāsandha was born. And by joining the parts playfully, saying, 'Get into life.' "
Prabhupāda: She found two parts. Generally, just like play in our childhood some doll is broken. So we used to put the head again. (laughs)
Pradyumna: Ah.
Prabhupāda: So similarly, the head is there: "Join, join! You live! You live!" Like that. You had no opportunity to play like that? Every . . .
Girirāja: Yes. Every child.
Prabhupāda: If some dish is broken, we used to try to join it. That is child's play.
Pradyumna: And the thing about Śukadeva Gosvāmī, that he was actually a different . . . so, I want to say that chāyā-śuka. He was different from that other . . . Brahmacārī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, speaker of Bhāgavata, was different from the householder.
Prabhupāda: What is the word?
Pradyumna: It said in the purport, chāyā-śuka. So you said that is like imitation Śuka, duplicate Śukadeva.
Prabhupāda: Oh, chāyā-śuka. Yes. Duplicate. Yes. (pause) So it is up to date?
Pradyumna: Just about. I just have one little . . .
Prabhupāda: I am not working nowadays. Still it is not up to date?
Pradyumna: I just have to go over a few things, then I'm sending out. Just this last chapter.
Prabhupāda: I'm doing very little. Anyway . . .
Pradyumna: No, it's just this last chapter.
Prabhupāda: I am in the Twenty-second Chapter.
Pradyumna: Yes. You're in Twenty-second Chapter. Twenty-first I'm going to send out.
Prabhupāda: And two chapters more will finish Ninth Canto.
Hari-śauri: Hmm. You did quite a bit last night.
Prabhupāda: Yes. If people actually taking like that, then there will be a revolution in the Western countries.
Hari-śauri: I don't see how they can stop it.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Hari-śauri: They can't stop it.
Prabhupāda: Huge quantity selling. Either Kṛṣṇa's desire . . . it is Kṛṣṇa's desire. Otherwise a religious book which is not their religion, Bhāgavatam, Indian. So somehow or other it is being distributed, and they say it is spreading like . . .
Girirāja: Epidemic.
Prabhupāda: Epidemic. (laughs) So it is a kind of revolution.
Hari-śauri: And it's not just in one place. It's every country our men have been to.
Prabhupāda: Every country. Whole Europe and America. What business they have got to purchase our books in Christmas? They actually continue. They have no business, but they are purchasing. Huge quantity. I never expec . . . dreamed even (laughs) that my books would be sold in large quantity.
Hari-śauri: They sold over one million pounds' worth of books.
Prabhupāda: Bon Mahārāja published a portion of the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu—eleven hundred books. Still lying for the last ten years.
Hari-śauri: Bon Mahārāja.
Prabhupāda: Yes. And he's the rectum of such a big institute. (laughs) He can pass stool very nice. (laughter) There was no second printing. And so many scholars, Maitra, M.A. Ph.D, DDLit and so on, so on, so on. Our Dr. Kapoor wrote some book. It was given to some Benarsi . . . (indistinct) . . . they first of all took it, then they refused, "No. We cannot publish." So . . . (indistinct)
Hari-śauri: They won't publish his books.
Prabhupāda: Who will take it? A philosophical textbook. There's nobody interested. Actually, there is no customer for philosophy nowadays.
Girirāja: No.
Hari-śauri: They can't . . . none of these men, they just don't seem to have any realized knowledge. They write things, but it's so dry that no one wants to read it; it's so distasteful. But when you read one of your books it's so full of life. I mean, it's just to the point. It exactly describes how everybody's living, how they're thinking, what the troubles and tribulations they're going through, how they can . . .
Prabhupāda: Somehow or other it is interesting.
Hari-śauri: Yes. It's so full of . . .
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Otherwise why people take it? When I was . . . I thought that, "I am giving my imagination. Who will take it? It is my imagination." Of course, with reference to the modern politics, sociology, everything. Whenever possible I touch.