RC VRN 1976-11-04 Nobody Is Satisfied Income
ANNOUNCER: The following is a conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on the 4th of November, 1976, in Vṛndāvana, India.
PRABHUPĀDA: So is there any regula… regulation given in the pañjikā, when?
PRADYUMNA: Only regulation given for timing is that…
is that for Deity going to rest at noon.
The Deity should take rest at noon, two yāmas after sunrise,
and take rest in evening, one yāma after sunset.
But it didn’t say anything about the other āratis.
- But at 6… - The ārati, it is called sandhya ārati.
- Yes, Sandhya ārati. - Sandhya ārati means just in the evening.
- Yes. - So when evening time is there…
After sunset it is not evening.
What is the time of sunset nowadays?
Bring pañjikā.
What is the time of sunset?
HARI−ŚAURI: It’s about 5:30.
5:30; then one hour after; then 6:30 is all right; 6:30 is all right.
AKŚAYANANDA: Okay; so in that case, when would you like to come and visit?
- Ah, 6:30. - Now you got six till seven.
Huh? - Now you’re coming six till seven.
5:30 to 6:30?
We shall come… 6:30- 7:00: Ārati will go on.
So we can come half an hour before.
- 5:30. - 5:30.
5:30; instead of coming there at six, I come there at 5:30.
And one hour; then 6:30 begins.
Make that like that.
That will be nice, hm.
I think… You can understand Hindi? No.
I am trying to; I can understand little bit; I am practicing.
You should learn Hindi, Bengali.
You are learning?
He talks… When he talks, he talks a little fast, when he reads the anuvada.
- Who? - Ah, Prema-yogi.
Ah, he is…
- But I… I am studying his translating: Nice. - Yes.
He is learned.
We wanted to ask you about… Ah…
He was training up Prema- yogi to do the editing,
but there’s no one to do the transcribing.
We probably doing… We’ll have to send the tapes…
Transcribing? No, why?
Why can’t Pālikā do?
- She can do it? - I don’t know.
- Yes, she can do. - Pālikā can do it?
- [indistinct] will be all right, then. - You also learn.
Typing.
- Yes. - Yes.
In case there is none, you should do.
Pālikā’s done it before.
- No, Pālikā can do; I know that. - She is expert.
She is expert in typing.
Amongst the women, she is expert typist.
She is expert in so many things.
Only defect is that she’s woman.
But Kṛṣṇa says, [striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās] [Bg 9.32].
“Never mind woman.
If she is devotee, she also comes to Me.”
Striyaḥ śūdrās tathā: “no one barred.”
Especially naming: [striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās, te 'pi yānti parāṁ…] [Bg 9.32].
Everyone is… Kṛṣṇa is so kind.
There is no restriction.
Everyone is open to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya—kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ [Cc. Madhya 20.108]
This is open to all living entities.
There is no restriction.
And so long this body is there, material, there is distinction between this and that.
Otherwise, when you come to the platform of spiritual understanding,
Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ [Bg. 5.18]; then there is no restriction.
Higher, lower, this; so on; so on.
gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ [Cc. Madhya 13.80]
Hmm.
So any newspaper propaganda against us?
- Ha! - No.
Hm, one complaint is standing:
That our life members and others—subscriber…
They always complain: They are not getting paper; they are not getting book.
- That is the general complaint. - We send, regularly.
We are sending.
But at many times the mail is stolen—magazines—Back to Godhead.
- That is a fact. - Yes, it’s very difficult.
Be… There are so many nice picture; I… I have seen.
When I was printing my books in a Delhi press…
So one peon was coming there to work part time as compositor.
So he… his mailbag he will put somewhere in the press and he will begin composing.
And all other compositors: They’ll check the mail bag,
and if something is attractive, they’ll take.
I have seen it.
Our magazine is so…
- It is so beautiful. - …[full] of pictures,
so naturally, as soon as they… The pictorial: They take it.
Yeah, that’s the trouble.
So we have a system in some towns.
We… We find one member who is very much liking us,
and we send all the magazines to him,
and he goes—sends his peons by hand, to all the other members in that city.
That is not possible.
We are doing that in some… some cities
but we don’t have in all cities: Such a system.
- That system works. - How it is possible?
- We’re doing that… - Some are living ten miles from him; it is not…
- No, that is happening in India. - Yeah.
- Not in other countries; [indistinct] - No.
In your country the peons are very responsible.
Yes, the post office is also very good.
Here they never satisfied.
This is the modern mentality.
Nobody is satisfied with his income.
He wants more money.
And for that purpose he can do anything rascal.
I have seen it; this peon puts his bag without any responsibility.
Letters are strewn and maybe some letters stolen; who can say?
And he came to earn some money.
For some time he’ll compose and get some labor.
And in Calcutta I have seen all the office peons:
They are sleeping in Dalhousie Square—the peon book as pillow—for hours together.
And when they, after distributing… The when they return to the office
it is going to be closed.
And if they are asked explanation, “Why you are so late?” “Oh, he was not there.
I had to wait three hours,” and so on, so on, so on.
Everyone is dishonest.
- Nobody is a… a… working honestly. - They said…
Especially in India, because poverty-stricken.
If they can sleep two hours, he thinks that he has made some profit.
Formerly people were God conscious.
They did not like to cheat: That “God will be displeased.”
Now they're don… don’t believe in God, so they can do anything.
Now that we’ve become a devotee…
“Everyone is God.”
if we sleep for two hours, we think we have wasted two hours.
Tha… That should be.
Sleeping is waste of time.
nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau [Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ Gosvāmy Aṣṭaka]
We have to conquer over eating and sleeping and mating…
Just the opposite to the karmīs.
- They want to increase their eating. - Formerly, when I was in
Rādhā-Dāmodara temple, there was a khol manufacturer here.
Is he here still?
Khol manu…
He supplied me khol:
- Very nice; very big. - Oh.
This khol was taken to Germany or…
What was his name?
- I forgot. - There is one man here.
In here?
One man is here, but I don’t know if it’s the same one.
Can you call him?
- Yeah. - Yes?
I think he’s just a repairman though.
- Oh, whatever he may be; yes. - Okay.
We must have very good khol; you have no good khol?
Yeah, I had one under repair; I had two under repair with him.
Oh!
But he takes a long time.
They are waiting… I am waiting now for repair.
So you can call him.
- Okay; you’d like to meet him? - Yes.
[If he is] the same man, then I can ask him to prepare some khol. [splice]
The one thing is that they neglect that rings.
That ring and the strap, if it is… That will never do.
As soon as they khol, that’s… some rope, bas. [splice]
Everything depends on organized management.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com