RC BOM 1977-04-25 Go to the Dogs or the Gita
ANNOUNCER: Next is a conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
recorded on April 25th, 1977, in Bombay, India.
PRABHUPADA: But so far the young boys who were there,
they were very much impressed.
TAMALA KRSNA: But they won’t change their lives, I’m sure of it. They…
Why not?
They’re impressed to the point of hearing, let’s say, yes.
They hear more, they’ll change.
Yeah; it’s just that I… You know, from our experience here in India,
practically the only place that we’ve made devotees regularly is in Bengal.
Other than there, we have not been able to make people give up their ways.
Why don’t you say that, “We could not preach?”
Yeah, it’s our own fault.
Why do [you] blame the other party?
Yes, it’s our own fault.
It is preaching.
Preaching means to make Jagai-Madhai a devotee.
That is preaching.
Simply talking big, big words… Now the…
We can see practically how the system of civilization is bad,
that this Indira Gandhi, raksasi, she became exalted in the topmost rank,
and she thought…
A person who is equally good or more than her, he was imprisoned.
Then how the system is bad,
that a rogue comes to the topmost post and a good man is put into the prison?
Is not the system defective?
Imperfect?
Some way or other, you can become very important,
and the actually important man you can cut down.
Envious system.
Animal.
Animals are envious also.
Enviousness is everywhere.
So the whole civilization is so defective.
Somehow or other, you come to the power, and you do whatever you like,
and the people in general will have to depend on such leaders for their welfare.
How they can be happy?
If the whole system is defective, how they can be happy?
The same man, in one day he’s very important,
in the next day he’s the most degraded.
And the most degraded man,
previously he was praised by millions of people and next day he’s condemned.
That means who elevated her to the post, they’re all rascals.
śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ [SB 2.3.19]
So what is the value of such election, and what is the value of such important men?
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