Conversation in Tehran

0:00Prabhupāda: ...that is Kṛṣṇa's mercy.

Krishna provides comfort to devotees

0:03But I am not that devotee. You are devotee. It is a fact. Kṛṣṇa supplies everything to the devotee's comfort.

0:16Dayānanda: Left or right? Ātreya Ṛṣi: Right. Yes. Go down Jayapattim[?]. [break] Prabhupāda, in Vaiṣṇava temples, āśramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples?

Discipline of disciples in ashrams

0:41Prabhupāda: No. [laughs] Ātreya Ṛṣi: It is not customary at all? It is used for my personal friend. Ātreya Ṛṣi: But it would be nice, Śrīla Prabhupāda, once in a while... No.

Historical example of whipping devotees

0:55There was devotee, Nityānanda's contemporary, he used to whip. And his whipping means as soon as he whips, the man becomes a devotee. [break] [end]