Morning Walk Conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
October 8, 1975, Durban

Prabhupada: …money is finished. And there is no use because they have lost India. For India they made all these arrangements. But that India is lost, so what is the use of maintaining? The Gibraltar also.

Pusta Krsna: All of the ships would go around the south of Africa up to England. So they would maintain their shipping route. But now… That’s a fact. They don’t need it.

Prabhupada: And that Suez Canal is closed, complete?

Pusta Krsna: No, it’s open again. [break] It is not as Westernized as in a place like Nairobi.

Prabhupada: The Africans are all thieves.

Pusta Krsna: Yes. Here there is not as much stealing as in Nairobi. [break] I think they have had to amputate afterwards, mangled by the shore. It happens frequently. On some of the beaches here they’ve put up signs that “There are many sharks in the water. It is dangerous to bathe here.” Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita, “Amongst fish, I am the shark.” (Prabhupada chuckles) He shaved off his beard yesterday, this young boy. He shaved off. He had beard. He shaved off.

Prabhupada: Oh. Further progress.

Pusta Krsna: Jaya. [break]

Prabhupada: …900,000 forms of life in the water. How many they have seen? They are giving pictures. [break] Calcium carbonate, oil wintergreen, and soap powder, powder hard soap, and I will make toothpaste.

Harikesa: What is this soap powder?

Prabhupada: It is called powdered hard soap. (end)