Friday 3 November 2017

Accusation is always there



Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: When we distribute these books, Śrīla Prabhupāda, we think that it is you who are distributing them, that they are your books, and we are simply assisting to offer them to people. It is actually you who are doing all the preaching.

Prabhupāda: It is Kṛṣṇa's book, we are all servants, engaged. [break] (laughing) Here your parents accusing me, and in India the caste brāhmaṇas accusing me. My standing... I do not know what is my standing. Your parents are accusing me, "This rascal, converting our sons to become mendicant without any material enjoyment." And there, "This rascal is giving sacred thread to the mlecchas and yavanas." (Still laughing)


Viṣṇujana: Is that why you keep traveling, Prabhupāda, so they won't catch you?


Prabhupāda: Nārada Muni was accused by Prajāpati Dakṣa that "You are traveling in the dress of a sādhu, but you are the most sinful man. You have turned my sons in the renounced order of life to become beggar, without any advancement, without any enjoyment." So that accusation is always there, beginning from Nārada Muni down to us. Some parents came to demonstrate?
Brahmānanda: In Los Angeles, yes. I understand they've demonstrated before, someone was saying? They had placards, and they were marching.


Bhāvānanda: In Laguna Beach they also.


Prabhupāda: Therefore Dr. Judah has said...


Brahmānanda: He has dedicated his book, "To the parents and to the devotees."


Prabhupāda: He has tried to pacify the parents.


Brahmānanda: Yes. Another parent is coming to see you today.


Prabhupāda: Oh, to accuse me? (laughter)


 Morning Walk -- July 1, 1975, Denver

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