Morning Walk Conversation Prabhupada: Ahaituky apratihata. Acyutananda: Jay sakal bipod. Prabhupada: Eh? Acyutananda: Jay sakal bipod. Prabhupada: Ah. Acyutananda: Bhaktivinoda… Prabhupada: Hare Krsna Hare Krsna… [break] …times it is speedy, sometimes slow. Therefore day and night, there’s time difference. It is moving. It is not fixed. Acyutananda: Bhagavad-gita’s Battle of Kuruksetra fought, in which month? Prabhupada: That I do not know. Why? Acyutananda: Because they have a Gita day, I think, in November, where they claim that they have found the day… September? Yasodanandana: December, beginning of December. Acyutananda: So that and the eighteen days’ war, and then the Uttarayana begins in the middle of January. So I was thinking that Bhisma was lying on the battlefield for almost a month or more. Prabhupada: Eh? Acyutananda: That Bhisma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days. [break] Prabhupada: …was to die when he liked. That was his special privilege. Acyutananda: What? Prabhupada: He would die when he liked. That was the benediction upon him. And Gandhi will say dharma-ksetra means this body. Indian man: Balarama and Subhadra month, is that on the same, the next month, He came? Prabhupada: He came one surya-grahana occasion. [break] …in America. That is better than calling a government. What is the government? I don’t care for them, these politicians. In America I never attempted to see the politicians, secretary and… Never attempted. I was sitting down under the tree and playing my dundubhi. Dayananda: Yes. For one year the Marquis of Zetland was interested, and then what is the use? After that, then finished. Prabhupada: Finished. Dayananda: Just five hundred pounds spent in two years, and then nothing. Prabhupada: Then nothing. Dayananda: In 1933-34. But you have, you have done so much. Even, even though you just had some low-class persons, you have transformed them all. And now it is a very wonderful… Prabhupada: The Ramakrishna Mission man came to see me. He said that “You dress like American. Otherwise, nobody will take you as important.” Acyutananda: Nikhilananda… Prabhupada: “And I don’t want to be important. I have no dress. If you pay for it, I can dress. I have no money. I know how to dress as a European. As business man, I was doing that. But not this shabby dress. You must give me four set of nice dress, (laughter) changing every alternate day. I know how to do it, but have no money.” (end)
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
February 20, 1976, Mayapura