Morning Walk Conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
July 29, 1975, Dallas

Prabhupada: (in car:) …and artificially they construct big, big cities. Wrong?

Jagadisa: Wrong turn we made back at the beginning of the street. [break]

Prabhupada: …coming. Why?

Brahmananda: This is more pleasant.

Satsvarupa: In a newspaper report, Srila Prabhupada, about India, it said that the mass of people in the rural areas didn’t even know that there was an emergency rule. They don’t… It’s so peaceful. They’re not affected. [break]

Prabhupada: …of people, they do not care for these political things. Even in Gandhi’s strong civil disobedience movement, out of the whole population of India, only sixty-thousand men joined. What is the India’s population?

Brahmananda: Six hundred million.

Prabhupada: Six hundred million, and out of that sixty-thousand joined, and it became successful. Sixty thousand joined by statistics. Actually worker, I don’t think more than ten thousand people. Exactly like Indian village. Here there is no business. They simply reside.

Brahmananda: Yes. [break] (outside:)

Satsvarupa: …it’s over there somewhere. He’s one of the world’s richest men, H. L. Hunt. He’s a Dallas oil millionaire. Some devotees tried to approach him, but at his house he has servants and… At least the servant took a Bhagavad-gita. They couldn’t see the man himself.

Dayananda: He died. A few months ago. [break]

Prabhupada: …otogrika? (?) Similar like that. [break] …dollars?

Brahmananda: Daily.

Prabhupada: Daily.

Brahmananda: Yes. That means about four thousand a month. [break]

Prabhupada: …of man, why? Why this movement?

Jagadisa: Because the men are exploiting them.

Prabhupada: That is the fact. They are dissatisfied with the treatment of man. The grievance is that they do not get husband, home, children, like loitering on the street. That is their aspiration: they want good home, good husband, good children. That they are not getting. Oh, it is a very big lake. (end)