Morning Walk in Vrindavan

0:00[Hindi with Indians] [break]

0:00Prabhupāda: ...dozen carts.

Negotiating temple property and facilities

0:54Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It looks like it came from here. [break]

0:56Prabhupāda: ...cannot say Hare Kṛṣṇa. There is such competition. [Hindi with others]

Devotee accommodation and garden maintenance

2:09I like this garden very nice. [Hindi conversation] It is maintained very nicely. We can get flowers. [Hindi conversation]

Water resources and local logistics

3:02Water is supply there? [Hindi]

3:09Indian man: There are two wells. [Hindi conversation] The river is very near. Just after that garden, Yamunā. [Hindi conversation]

4:19Prabhupāda: These people, they like Vṛndāvana. [Hindi conversation] What is our telephone number?

4:41Akṣayānanda: 179.

4:45Indian man: 179.

4:49Devotees: 8.

4:52Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Vṛndāvana 178.

4:57Indian man: 178. [Hindi conversation]

4:57Prabhupāda: So they are not trustee.

Temple administration and financial management

5:48[Hindi conversation]

5:48...are agreeeable. Whatever you think, as you like, we can ex...

Theology of chanting holy names

7:03[break] [Hindi conversation; man mentions monthly donation] [break] [laughter]

7:03Tripurāri: I can remember from Caitanya-caritāmṛta, one devotee of Lord Rāmacandra was always chanting the name of Rāma, but Lord Caitanya convinced him to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. [laughs]

7:13Prabhupāda: There is competition like that. One will say "Hare Rāma." Another will say "No, Hare Kṛṣṇa."

7:21Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: He was very obstinate. Hari-śauri: Or that man in Delhi.

7:47Prabhupāda: Huh? Hari-śauri: That man in Delhi thought we had something against Lord Rāmacandra. [laughs] There are many versions like that.

8:02Somebody will say, "Your Rāmacandra may be very important person, but when Rādhārāṇī goes to Kṛṣṇa, Lord Rāmacandra becomes His [Her] guard with arrows." [laughter] When Rādhārāṇī goes to Kṛṣṇa, and Rāmacandra has to serve Rādhārāṇī with arrows and bows.

8:33[pause]

Proper etiquette and sacred symbols

8:46This is gorur. [?]

8:51Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda?

8:52Prabhupāda: Hmm.

8:52Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: What is that six-pointed star significance?

8:55Prabhupāda: Cakra.

9:04Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Oh. Hari-śauri: What is the symbol on the right-hand side, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

9:06Prabhupāda: I think śaṅkha. Hari-śauri: Is that the conch, is it? [break]

9:26Akṣayānanda: ...thread from the Deity, the old sacred thread, and they tie it on their wrist. They tie it here.

9:34Prabhupāda: Who?

9:35Akṣayānanda: Some of the devotees have started to do that now.

9:38Prabhupāda: Why?

9:39Akṣayānanda: I don't know. It's just like wearing beads. The sacred thread from the Deity, after replacing, they take the old one and they wear it here.

9:50Prabhupāda: Who has told them?

9:51Akṣayānanda: I don't know.

9:52Prabhupāda: Then why you...?

9:54Akṣayānanda: Well, I told one boy to stop it, and because I couldn't quote any authority, he keeps wearing...

10:02Prabhupāda: No, no, there is no author... Where is his authority?

10:05Akṣayānanda: Yes.

10:05Prabhupāda: This nonsense should be stopped.

10:06Akṣayānanda: Yes, I thought it was wrong. That's why I mentioned it. I wanted to make sure.

10:13Prabhupāda: Stop this.

10:14Akṣayānanda: Okay. Sure. Hari-śauri: I think their idea is that because it's prasādam, it's from the Deity, that they're able to wear it like that.

10:29Prabhupāda: That is another concoction. The sacred thread is not used like that, in the hand.

10:33Akṣayānanda: I thought it was wrong. It seems like some kind of fashion or something, concocted fashion. [break] Hari-śauri: ...small black beads that the devotees are wearing from Rādhā-kuṇḍa.

11:04They have a string of beads made of clay from Rādhā-kuṇḍa. Are they...?

11:14Prabhupāda: Rādhā-kuṇḍa clay is not bad. Hari-śauri: So it's all right to wear them? Not very constantly.

11:20Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes I think, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that you're worried that one thing will lead to the next. Actually, all we have to do is follow your example.

Maintaining authentic spiritual standards

11:40Akṣayānanda: Yes, we don't have to add anything. What can we add?

11:43Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: What is the use of it?

11:44Akṣayānanda: What can we add?

11:51Prabhupāda: There is a proverb in Bengali that the crows, they eat stool. But when the crow is very young, he eats more stool. [break] ...tendency always, how to become hippie as soon as there is little opportunity.

12:33Akṣayānanda: Yes, it's something we have to guard against very carefully.

12:39Prabhupāda: Don't allow them. Don't allow all these.

12:42Akṣayānanda: Even in India people say like that = "Oh, you are hippies?"

12:49Prabhupāda: As soon as you become hippie, immediately your all prestige will go.

12:54Akṣayānanda: Finished, yes.

12:54Prabhupāda: Very carefully. Hari-śauri: The thing is, a lot of the devotees, they're not very much conscious that they're being watched by the..., very carefully by the public. [break] [bird is singing nearby] Bird of paradise? No.

13:42Hari-śauri: No, the bird of paradise is different. Different. [end]