Morning Walk Conversation (Excerpt) Hamsaduta: …to Bombay. Prabhupada: Yes. Hamsaduta: The roadway is always difficult. It’s better if you travel by air. [break] Prabhupada: They are dangerous road. Devotee (1): The roads are not very good. Hamsaduta: Tribhuvanath is in Gujarat, is that right? Devotee (1): Gujarat, right. Hamsaduta: He’s collecting to get the bus fixed. [break] Another one, a small one. [break] The day Your Divine Grace… [break] …so much danger with these machines. Not a… [break] Devotee (1): It’s very old. Many Arabs are here. Prabhupada: Oh. Indian man: They come here to get married. They marry local women Muslims and go. Devotee (1): They have so much money, but they only have a desert, so they have to come to India to try and enjoy. There’s nothing to enjoy in Arabia, simply sand. Prabhupada: Arabians come here, I know. Devotee (1): In Bombay also, all the big hotels are filled with Arabians. Prabhupada: Accha? Devotee (1): This Taj and Oberoi, so many are there. Prabhupada: India has good income from Arabian tourist. Devotee (1): Yes. And they come back again and again to India. Prabhupada: Accha? Devotee (1): Even in Bahrain I met the brother of the ruler, and he said that he liked India the best of any place he had been. He had been all over the world. Prabhupada: That’s a fact. Devotee (1): He said India was the best place. So I told him to stay in our hotel in Juhu next time he came. [break] Prabhupada: (Hindi) (end)
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
December 4, 1976, Vrndavana