Prabhupāda: Yes. People are everywhere good. Simply some politicians, they make them bad.
Dr. Sharma: The top politicians, they come in the way. They stop these things. They had a yoga class institute set up in the Moscow University, and when they came to bhakti-yoga, they realized that spiritualism's involved. So at the earliest they get rid of this.
Prabhupāda: One book is published, what is that religion?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Anthology.
Prabhupāda: Anthology. So in that book they have given quotation from my books.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. It's just come out.
Prabhupāda: It is very nice.
Dr. Sharma: One day they removed the professor the department of Russian, for arguing in favor (?) of Indian yoga, and he was practicing it and teaching the people. And they got rid of it.
Prabhupāda: So when they get the information...
- yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
- mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā
- śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
- sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
- (BG 6.47)
There is book.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This is the book, Words of the World Religions, and on the part, the section is entitled "Kṛṣṇa," and on the part "Kṛṣṇa," "From Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda." Very nice.
Dr. Sharma: This publication is from States or Russia?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This is published from the United States.
Prabhupāda: Anthology of Religions of the World.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So your book is considered an authoritative book on the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: They have given nice description of bhakti-yoga. So if you want to, we can give you some sets of books for reading, and discussing amongst your friends.
Dr. Sharma: Thank you.
Prabhupāda: Yes. You can select our any number of books you want. Let them read and understand.
Guest (2): He is good at translating also. He could translate our books.
Prabhupāda: If you kindly do that, you can. That will be a great service.
Guest (1): Into Russian he can translate.
Prabhupāda: Yes. And we can print them.
Guest (1): Someone else has to do the corrections?
Prabhupāda: No...
Guest: (indistinct)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Which book would you like to have translated into Russian, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: That he can select. You can see my books, and whichever you want to begin first. That will be great service. But actual communism, what is called, socialism, is there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Guest (2): Real socialism in there in Bhāgavatam.
Prabhupāda: In the Seventh Canto. That in your house if there is even a snake, see that he is not starving. This... Just see. If there is a lizard, if there is a snake, then see that he is not starving. You must give him food. Where is that communism?
Guest (1): We appreciate Communism as it stands now or socialism, what they call it?
Prabhupāda: No. Our communism is that Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ: (BG 14.4) "In every species of life, as many forms of life are there, material nature is their mother and I am the seed-giving father." So everyone is Kṛṣṇa's son. And everything is īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam (ISO 1). Everything is Kṛṣṇa's property. Every son has got the right to enjoy the property of the father. This is our...
Guest (1): In the essence of Communism the very fact of existence of God itself is denied.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Guest (1): The existence of God itself is questioned or denied in Communism.
Prabhupāda: They may deny so many things foolishly, but that is not the fact.
Guest (1): We understand. But even to such peoples, Communism, the word itself shows it is not accepting God. Then why we should interpret that Bhāgavatam or Bhagavad-gītā, whatever we have, is....
Prabhupāda: They may not accept God, but they are sons of God. You may become a madman—you don't accept your father. That does not mean that you have no father.
Guest (1): But he is a madman.
Prabhupāda: Yes, so madman, that should be treated. That is humanity. A madman, he has become mad, and "Get him out." No. Human society's duty is to treat him, to become a sane man.