Seaweed and Vedic Food Culture

Seaweed consumption and health food

0:01Brahmānanda: ...shortage that they will make processes for eating the seaweed.

0:06Prabhupāda: They are already doing that.

0:08Rāmeśvara: It is considered a health food in many vegetarian restaurants. They import it as a health food.

0:14Prabhupāda: That Ahmedabad, that gentleman in his house, you were guest... You were in Ahmedabad?

0:22Jayatīrtha: Ahmedabad, that...

0:34Prabhupāda: Yes.

0:34Jayatīrtha: ...homeopathic doctor?

0:34Prabhupāda: No, no, that gentleman, his name I forget now.

0:34Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Patel?

0:34Prabhupāda: Patel, yes. Not the doctor; the young man in whose house we became guest. He's doing this business.

0:46Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Eating it.

0:46Prabhupāda: He's mixing with something, making like that Chinese grass and what you call? His business.

0:51Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The Chinese eat this.

0:51Prabhupāda: Chinese, Japanese.

Seaweed cultivation in East Asia

0:58Rāmeśvara: In Japan, it is very popular.

1:00Prabhupāda: Yes.

1:01Brahmānanda: They have farms, they call them sea farms, and they specially grow the seaweed for cultivation.

Vedic culture and Krishna prasada

1:17Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is very kind. If you want this kind of food, He'll give you facility.

1:26Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But the Vedic culture, I don't think they like this. They'll prefer the... Do you think, Prabhupāda?

1:32Prabhupāda: Vedic culture means kṛṣṇa-prasāda.

1:34Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Kṛṣṇa... You cannot offer this to Kṛṣṇa, can you?

1:38Prabhupāda: No. [break]

1:47Devotee (1): ...seaweed they eat. It grows out further. This isn't edible, they say.

Edibility for different living entities

2:00Prabhupāda: Everything is edible, but meant for different living entities. Stool is also edible, meant for the hogs.

Human consumption of stool during war

2:21In the last war, stool was also eaten by human beings. You know that?

2:27Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, the Germans.

Walking the deities to the park

2:32[break]

2:32Devotee (1): ...take the deities on a walk down this way, up to the park, and put them underneath this gazebo there.

2:42Prabhupāda: Park. That is a park?

2:46Devotee (1): Yes, it's a park up there. [break]

2:46Prabhupāda: ...anantaya kalpate. Ananta. [break] ...the different language. [pause] Hut means "go away." [break]

3:26Devotee (2): ...that thing.

3:30Prabhupāda: Means you haven't got master. [end]