Morning Walk in Mayapur

Regional cooking styles in India

0:00Prabhupāda: I'll have to go to you, and both of them I like. The Marwari this... Gujaratis, they use too much oil. Similarly Bengalis, too much oil. Imli [tamarind], imli water?

Common ingredients in Indian cuisine

0:32Indian devotee (1): Yes, they like. And chili.

0:37Prabhupāda: And chili. That's all.

Devotees dining with the Jaipuria family

0:46Indian devotee (1): Actually, Prabhupāda, in Jaipuria, when they invited us, when we were in Kanpur, all the devotees, for three days we were eating very simple food, but the devotees liked so much. They were eating lots.

0:51Prabhupāda: Oh, Jaipuria invite them?

0:54Indian devotee (1): Yeah, Jaipuria, yeah, when we were in Kanpur.

0:59Prabhupāda: Oh, Jaipuria is that old man?

Prosperity and devotion in Rajasthan

1:04Indian devotee (1): Mantura.

1:04Prabhupāda: Mantura. He came to our temple.

1:04Indian devotee (2): His son came here.

1:04Prabhupāda: Eh?

1:04Indian devotee (2): Yeah. The other day his sons came here.

1:04Prabhupāda: Here?

1:04Indian devotee (2): Yes, to see you one evening. [indistinct]

1:04Prabhupāda: Oh. [break] ...country which is desert practically, but they are luxurious, they are rich. Why? But they're devotees at the same time.

Dairy products and traditional sweets

1:35In their country also they have got many cows. They get sufficient milk.

1:43And from that milk, they prepare so many things—milk, ghee, and then they get chānā. So they know how to prepare so many things from chānā, lugdoo. [break]

1:57Indian devotee (1): Laḍḍu.

Maintaining cultural and religious rules

2:04[break]

2:04Jayapataka: They're maintaining the rules.

2:06Prabhupāda: Yes. All over India, they're not so fallen as the kṣatriyas and brāhmaṇas. [end]