MW CHI 1975-07-06 These Demonic Communists Should Be Finished
ANNOUNCER: The following is a morning walk conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on the 6th of July, 1975, in Chicago, Illinois.
PRABHUPĀDA: Why?
JAGADĪŚA: Because it would greatly facilitate my preaching.
- Huh? - It would greatly facilitate my preaching.
You are already preaching.
But many of the devotees are not [as] inclined to listen to a householder,
as to a sannyāsī.
Neither to the sannyāsīs.
TAMĀLA KṚṢṆA: Prabhupāda, when you were…
Many years ago you used to have me send you
eucalyptus twigs from San Francisco.
Hm, yes.
So now that you’re in America we can easily arrange for that to be done.
They can be sent.
They take only one day by air.
So wherefrom?
Well, San Francisco is the best area for eucalyptus.
- So, arrange. - We have them already, Mahārāja.
- I’ll arrange today. - He cut one, four corner, square.
- Square set, yes. - Square side.
That is good, square and green.
And green.
And as thick as the finger? As thick as ones finger?
No, no, this much.
Top of the little finger.
[break] …about forty miles off, there is a place known as Jneyo[?] Kali.
There the Ganges is so vast.
You have seen it?
- No. Eh? - VIṢṆUJANA: I think so; I saw it three miles wide.
One place where I was sailing on the Ganges it was three miles wide by Mangir.
Oh, Mungir. Ah, Mungir is far off. It is near Calcutta.
[break] …snowfall here?
- Snowfall? - Very heavy snowfall.
DEVOTEE (1): Oh, yes, it becomes very cold here.
DHĪRA KṚṢṆA: …ice. In the winter time, this becomes ice.
- Become ice? - Yes, everyone likes to go out and walk around on it.
Ice skating.
…any bird called thunderbird?
BAHULĀŚVA: Thunderbird?
Big bird, big eagle. Big eagle, in the United States.
No, big eagle, thunderbird.
- Have seen in this car? BRAHMĀNANDA: Automobile is called.
But actually is there any bird called thunderbird?
Legendary bird from Indian legend.
Indian legend?
Of the American Indians, the red Indians.
They um… Like sometimes their chiefs are called Chief Thunderbird.
- It’s a popular… - It’s a popular name for their chiefs.
Ah. Oh.
We have got an idea of thunderbird.
The bird flies in the, near the cloud in expectation of water,
and they are not afraid of thunder.
That is called cataka.
That example is given by Rūpa Gosvāmī.
The cataka does not take water from ground.
They will take water when it falls from the cloud.
So, in the beginning of every cloud there is thunder.
So this bird, because they [are] expecting water from the cloud…
[The] cloud is giving him thunder,
but still he does not, will not take water from ground.
What connection do the Gosvāmīs use that example to illustrate?
Example means a devotee will take mercy from Kṛṣṇa, not from the material world.
Even there is thunder, Kṛṣṇa does not give mercy but puts him into difficulty,
still, he will not take any mercy from the [indistinct].
This is the… [break] - You are showing your mercy upon us.
How do we prevent ourselves from becoming guru-druha,
or ungrateful for the benediction you are giving us?
So, you want to be guru-druha?
- Eh? - No.
That’s nice.
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