Morning Walk Conversation Prabhupada: Everyone will understand. Hare Krsna. That is proved. We are going to Africa. We are going to Canada, Europe, America. Everyone chants Hare Krsna. That is the language. When a young man and young woman loves one another, there is no question of language. My Guru Maharaja used to say that “Suppose you are in a foreign country. You do not know the language. But when there is fire, you get friends without any language.” You see? In the beginning of British rule, there were not very many English-knowing Indians so a clerk in his office was working. So monkey came and he scattered the office papers. So after the monkey was driven away, he was collecting the papers. In the meantime, his English boss came. “What is this, man?” So he could not say. He began to jump. You see. “Monkey, sir. Monkey, sir. (laughter) Monkey, sir.” “All right. All right. That’s all right.” Simply to inform, without any language, you can jump, “Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.” And he will understand. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna… (Bengali) Guest: (Bengali) Prabhupada: [break] (Bengali) Hare Krsna and dance. Do this. [break] …and for constructing four buildings like that. [break] Krsna took part in politics. So what is His politics? What is His sociology? What is His culture? Guest: Support the right minority? Prabhupada: Eh? Guest: Support the right minority? Prabhupada: There is no question of minority. Support the right person. Krsna supported Maharaja Yudhisthira in place of Duryodhana. So formerly it was monarchy. That is perfect politics. This democracy is useless. It has proved. One man, the king, he should be properly educated how to rule, what is the aim of ruling, how the people will be, I mean to say, culturally elevated, what is that culture. [break] There was a consulting board of learned brahmanas and saintly persons. They would advise the monarch how to rule. Jayapataka: This is… This is the land here. Prabhupada: This is the land? Jayapataka: Yeah, we’re walking over it. We’re going through… [break] Syamasundara: Elizabeth, in England, she’s got a…, what she calls a “think-tank” or a board of advisors who meet and advise her on different policies. Prabhupada: Privy council. Syamasundara: Something like that. It’s called a “think-tank”. She’s named it. It’s presided over by Lord, Lord Goodman. Prabhupada: No, no. The thing is, unless the people are Krsna conscious, either this board or that board, that will not help. First of all, people should know what is the aim of life, what is culture, how the human activity should be directed. The people should know first of all this. Otherwise, changing from frying pan to the fire, it is useless. That is going on. That change, revolution, is going on. Just like the Russian people, they changed the Czarist government into communist government, revolution, but still, they’re unhappy. They’re trying to change by another revolution. This is going on. Punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30] This is described in the sastra as “chewing the chewed.” Or the same simple philosophy: “This side of stool is better than that side.” So he keeps the whole thing, stool. “This side, the dry side, is better and the moist side, wet side, is bad.” This is no philosophy. It, it must not be stool. It must be gold. Then it is all right, this side or that side. That philosophy, that the dry side of stool is better than the wet side, this will not help. So first, first of all, human society must know what is the aim of life. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. We are part and parcel of God, Krsna, Visnu. We are suffering on account of our relationship with God. This is the cause of our suffering. Then we have to make plan how to revive our lost relationship with God. Then the… Everything is there in the Vedic literature. All directions are there. So we have to… Just like when we are in danger, we consult some learned man or physician or a lawyer, similarly we have to consult the Vedic culture, how perfect it is. This way? Jayapataka: Yes. Prabhupada: Then everything is there. You haven’t got to manufacture anything. And the Bhagavad-gita is the gist idea of all Vedic culture. And our propaganda is to establish that gist idea of Bhagavad-gita. That is Krsna consciousness movement. So therefore I am asking. “What is the politics of Krsna?” Krsna’s politics was to have a king of the world which…, Krsna conscious, a devotee of Krsna. That is the Krsna’s politics. He wanted to replace. So the first politic is to replace these so-called leaders, demons. Hare Krsna. Where is that land? This land? Jayapataka: We already walked over it. Prabhupada: Oh. Jayapataka: You’re talking. So I don’t want to interrupt. Prabhupada: Oh. Jayapataka: But on the way ba… It’s that land over there. Prabhupada: So where are… Where are those boys? That Svarupananda? Jayapataka: They may have gone back to the temple now. This land… I’m sending… Because land, different land takes different time, so I’m sending both information out for this land here—It goes from this path, this, over to the other side of the barley, right to the river edge, twenty bighas—or this one, ten bighas, whichever is first. This is more fertile. For agriculture, this one… Prabhupada: So which one, like you like? Guest: Whichever one is possible. As he says, “First come, first served.” Prabhupada: All right. So you arrange. During stay, arrange something. Guest: Something available here also? Syamasundara: This is the old river bed, isn’t it? Prabhupada: Hmm? Jayapataka: Yes. [break] Prabhupada: …will help us. (Bengali) So you purchase on this side land. Jayapataka: This land is for sale with this dhow (?) here. (end)
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
March 7, 1974, Mayapura