760407 - Morning Walk part Hindi - Vrndavana
Devotee: Morning walk, April 7, 1976, Vṛndāvana, Raṅga Gardens. (Hindi) [break]
Prabhupāda: ...dozen carts.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It looks like it came from...
Prabhupāda: [break] ...cannot say, Hare Kṛṣṇa. There is such competition. (Hindi with others) I like this garden very nice. (Hindi) It is maintained very nicely. We can get flowers. (Hindi) Water is supply there? (Hindi)
Indian man: There are two wells. (Hindi) The river is very near. Just after that garden, Yamunā. (Hindi)
Prabhupāda: These people, they like Vṛndāvana. (Hindi) What is our telephone number?
Akṣayānanda: 179.
Devotees: 8.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Vṛndāvana 178.
Indian man: 178. (Hindi)
Prabhupāda: So they are not tres.... (Hindi) Whatever you think, as you like, we can ex.... [break] (Hindi) [break]
Tripurāri: I can remember from Caitanya-caritāmṛta, one devotee of Lord Rāmacandra was always chanting the name of Rāma, but Lord Caitanya convinced him to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) There is competition like that. One will say "Hare Rāma." Another will say "No, Hare Kṛṣṇa."
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: He was very obstinate.
Hari-śauri: Or that man in Delhi.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Hari-śauri: That man in Delhi thought we had something against Lord Rāmacandra.
Prabhupāda: There are many versions like that. Somebody will say, "Your Rāmacandra may be very important person, but when Rādhārāṇī goes to Kṛṣṇa, Lord Rāmacandra becomes His (Her) guard with arrows..." (laughter) When Rādhārāṇī goes to Kṛṣṇa, and Rāmacandra has to serve Rādhārāṇī with arrows and bows. (pause) This is gorur.(?)
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: What is that six-pointed star significance?
Prabhupāda: Cakra.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Oh.
Hari-śauri: What is the symbol on the right-hand side, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: I think śaṅkha. That is the conchshell.
Akṣayānanda: [break] ...thread from the Deity, the old sacred thread, and they tie it on their wrist. They tie it here.
Prabhupāda: Who?
Akṣayānanda: Some of the devotees have started to do that now.
Prabhupāda: Why?
Akṣayānanda: I don't know. It's just like wearing beads. The sacred thread from the Deity, after replacing, they take the old one and they wear it here.
Prabhupāda: Who has told them?
Akṣayānanda: I don't know.
Prabhupāda: Then why...
Akṣayānanda: Well, I told one boy to stop it, and because I couldn't quote any authority, he keeps wearing...
Prabhupāda: No, no, there is no author.... Where is his authority?
Akṣayānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: This nonsense should be stopped.
Akṣayānanda: Yes, I thought it was wrong. That's why I mentioned it. I wanted to make sure.
Prabhupāda: Stop this.
Akṣayānanda: Okay. Sure.
Hari-śauri: I think their idea is that because it's prasādam, it's from the Deity, that they're able to wear it.
Prabhupāda: That is another concoction. The sacred thread is not used like that, in the hand.
Akṣayānanda: I thought it was wrong. It seems like some kind of fashion or something, concocted fashion.
Hari-śauri: [break] ...small black beads that the devotees are wearing from Rādhā-kuṇḍa. They have a string of beads made of clay from Rādhā-kuṇḍa. Are they...?
Prabhupāda: Rādhā-kuṇḍa clay is not bad.
Hari-śauri: So it's all right to wear them?
Prabhupāda: Not very constantly.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes I think, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that you're worried that one thing will lead to the next. Actually all we have to do is follow your example.
Akṣayānanda: Yes, we don't have to add anything. What can we add?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: What is the use of it?
Akṣayānanda: What can we add?
Prabhupāda: There is a proverb in Bengali that the crows, they eat stool. But when the crow is very young, he eats more stool. [break] ...tendency always, how to become hippie, as soon as there is little opportunity.
Akṣayānanda: Yes, it's something we have to guard against very carefully.
Prabhupāda: Don't allow them. Don't allow all these.
Akṣayānanda: Even in India people say like that, "Oh, you are hippies?"
Prabhupāda: As soon as you become hippie, immediately your all prestige will go.
Akṣayānanda: Finished, yes.
Prabhupāda: Very carefully.
Hari-śauri: The thing is, a lot of the devotees, they're not very much conscious that they're being watched by the, very carefully by the public.
Prabhupāda: Bird of paradise? No.
Hari-śauri: No, the bird of paradise is different.
Prabhupāda: Different. (end)