Delhi Morning Walk, August 1976

Critique of modern religious institutions

0:00Mahāṁsa: Everything he was saying is what he has learned from the Ramakrishna Society.

0:05Prabhupāda: There are so many gentlemen who have become poisoned by this nonsense. [break] [japa] Jaya. Very nice garden. [break] ...you see this nim tree in any other part of the world. It is only in India.

1:26Indian man: Very good.

1:27Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Very good. [break] [Hindi conversation] Sixty thousand dollars daily.

Financial management in spiritual preaching

1:56Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Every day.

1:58Prabhupāda: Every day. This is preaching, real preaching. Substantial. It will remain. Don't pluck anymore. That's all right.

2:28Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: If they see us, they may stop us coming.

2:31Prabhupāda: Yes. [Hindi] Kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān SB 7.6.1

Importance of early spiritual education

2:42This is the process. From the very beginning of life. In Hyderabad that garden, Bala, Bala... You have been?

3:03Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: I didn't go on the walk.

3:04Harikeśa: I don't remember the name.

3:06Prabhupāda: Bala Bhavan. Jawahar Bala Bhavan.

3:09Harikeśa: Oh, yes. Bala Bhavan.

3:11Prabhupāda: Three, four big, big buildings, they're closed. What they are teaching to the bālas? No teaching. Very old buildings.

3:24Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: This is Lodi tomb.

Historical monuments and material futility

3:34[indistinct]

3:34Prabhupāda: Lodi dynasty, there were family, Lodi dynasty.

3:38Indian man: Yes, Lodi tomb.

3:46Prabhupāda: Tomb worship. [break]

3:52Indian man: All the conferences here are educational.

3:54Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: It's built by the Americans?

3:59Indian man: Yes. Behind this is a fruit farmer's lot. [indistinct] [break]

4:03Prabhupāda: ...the tomb? Very big.

4:19Harikeśa: I was just thinking that this was really a case of decoration of the dead body.

4:24Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, see the Taj Mahal. That's thousand times better than this. [sound of bicycle bell]

4:34Prabhupāda: In the gate it is said that bicycle prohibited. [break] ...tomb was constructed before Taj Mahal. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [break]

4:50Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: ...improvement on this park.

5:03Indian man: The last two years they have rebuilt this park. [break]

5:13Prabhupāda: ...there are similar buildings. Hari-śauri: In Rome? Yes. Old. And hundreds of tourists go to see them. Hari-śauri: That Coliseum is very famous all over the world. That Coliseum? Yes. [Hindi] [break]

5:34BG 9.25यान्ति देवव्रता देवान्पितॄन्यान्ति पितृव्रताः ।भूतानि यान्ति भूतेज्या यान्ति मद्याजिनोऽपि माम् ॥२५॥yānti deva-vratā devānpitṝn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥbhūtāni yānti bhūtejyāyānti mad-yājino 'pi māmThose who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those who worship Me will live with Me.

Soul destination and spiritual preparation

6:02After this body, one has to go somewhere. So this is the description, who will go where. Mad-yājino 'pi mām. Those who are preparing to go back to Godhead, they can go.

6:29Otherwise, if you go..., want to go in the higher planetary system or in the lower planetary, that you also go. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

6:58Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We go from here. [break]

7:03Prabhupāda: ...inquires, "Why you are chanting?" The simple reply is that "We have to go somewhere after death. We are going to Godhead. And you do not know where you'll go." Thik hai? They do not know where they will go.

7:18The animals do not know. Huh?

7:22Indian man: We know where we have to go to [indistinct].

7:32Prabhupāda: Yes. [end]