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	'''Tamala Krsna:''' Only ''vaisya'' community.		'''Tamala Krsna:''' Only ''vaisya'' community.

	'''Prabhupada:''' Some were, not all. And the Muhammadans, the could not convert any gentleman to Muhammadanism. Maybe one or two, say. Very . . . and similarly, Christian also. No high-class man became Christian. One or two. That is for some other purpose. Just like in Scottish Churches College, the Christian Indians were given more preference. There was one Mr. Raya. He would not speak in Bengali. Even if some Bengali student would like to talk with him Bengali, he would answer in English. (laughs) He was so saheb. <span style="color:#~~ff9933~~">Abhi saheb ban gaya. (pause) Kya saheb . . . kya pul banaya saheb company?</span> <span style="color:#128807">(He has become a gentleman now. (pause) What a wonderful bridge the saheb company made?)</span> You understand Hindi any of you? There is a song, the Howrah Bridge, pontoon bridge. So when this Howrah Bridge . . . not this bridge. Up to 1900 . . . when my daughter was married, in 1941, up to that time there was a bridge connecting Howrah and Calcutta, pontoon bridge. That we are saying, seeing from childhood, from our birth. So this was an astonishment in India. They wrote song, <span style="color:#~~ff9933~~">kya pul banaya saheb company?</span> <span style="color:#128807">(What is this bridge building Sahib Company?)</span> "How wonderful bridge this saheb company . . ." because India was being governed by East Indian Company . . . after mutiny, Queen Victoria took charge. Otherwise the British government was known as Company Raja Sahib, East India Company. So the East India Company, they constructed this temple, er, bridge. So there is a song, <span style="color:#~~ff9933~~">Kya pul banaya saheb company? Upar me gadi chale, niche chale admi . . .</span> <span style="color:#128807">(What wonderful bridge the saheb company made, cars move above it, men walk beneath it . . .)</span> like that. So this East India Company . . . therefore this railway was known, "East India Railway." That is the first beginning of railway, from Calcutta to Burdwan, beginning of Ind . . . there was no railway in India.		'''Prabhupada:''' Some were, not all. And the Muhammadans, the could not convert any gentleman to Muhammadanism. Maybe one or two, say. Very . . . and similarly, Christian also. No high-class man became Christian. One or two. That is for some other purpose. Just like in Scottish Churches College, the Christian Indians were given more preference. There was one Mr. Raya. He would not speak in Bengali. Even if some Bengali student would like to talk with him Bengali, he would answer in English. (laughs) He was so saheb. <span style="color:#ec710e">Abhi saheb ban gaya. (pause) Kya saheb . . . kya pul banaya saheb company?</span> <span style="color:#128807">(He has become a gentleman now. (pause) What a wonderful bridge the saheb company made?)</span> You understand Hindi any of you? There is a song, the Howrah Bridge, pontoon bridge. So when this Howrah Bridge . . . not this bridge. Up to 1900 . . . when my daughter was married, in 1941, up to that time there was a bridge connecting Howrah and Calcutta, pontoon bridge. That we are saying, seeing from childhood, from our birth. So this was an astonishment in India. They wrote song, <span style="color:#ec710e">kya pul banaya saheb company?</span> <span style="color:#128807">(What is this bridge building Sahib Company?)</span> "How wonderful bridge this saheb company . . ." because India was being governed by East Indian Company . . . after mutiny, Queen Victoria took charge. Otherwise the British government was known as Company Raja Sahib, East India Company. So the East India Company, they constructed this temple, er, bridge. So there is a song, <span style="color:#ec710e">Kya pul banaya saheb company? Upar me gadi chale, niche chale admi . . .</span> <span style="color:#128807">(What wonderful bridge the saheb company made, cars move above it, men walk beneath it . . .)</span> like that. So this East India Company . . . therefore this railway was known, "East India Railway." That is the first beginning of railway, from Calcutta to Burdwan, beginning of Ind . . . there was no railway in India.

	'''Tamala Krsna:''' When was the railway first built?		'''Tamala Krsna:''' When was the railway first built?
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	'''Tamala Krsna:''' Oh, yes. Nothing.		'''Tamala Krsna:''' Oh, yes. Nothing.

	'''Prabhupada:''' No food. So everything was exported. Their policy was to supply manufactured goods and take raw materials from India. So they supplied cotton goods. They saw that all Indians are using cotton cloth. Iron they introduced. They introduced railway line, all iron—the carriage, the wheel, the road. Everything was . . . in this way they became prosperous. And the Indian people, they saw . . . they were educated. Because they are fond of going to pilgrimage by walking. They would go . . . suppose from here, Navadvipa, one has to go to Vrndavana. He would make his will, because he does not know whether he'll come back or not. Long distance, thousand miles, you have to go by, on leg. They used to go. So they were advertised that "No. Now you'll have not to walk. The Company, they're making very easy-going railway." So they received it, "Oh! <span style="color:#~~ff9933~~">Kya pul banaya saheb company?</span> <span style="color:#128807">(What a wonderful bridge the saheb company made . . .)</span> (laughs) But their idea was to draw all the raw materials from villages and send it to England.		'''Prabhupada:''' No food. So everything was exported. Their policy was to supply manufactured goods and take raw materials from India. So they supplied cotton goods. They saw that all Indians are using cotton cloth. Iron they introduced. They introduced railway line, all iron—the carriage, the wheel, the road. Everything was . . . in this way they became prosperous. And the Indian people, they saw . . . they were educated. Because they are fond of going to pilgrimage by walking. They would go . . . suppose from here, Navadvipa, one has to go to Vrndavana. He would make his will, because he does not know whether he'll come back or not. Long distance, thousand miles, you have to go by, on leg. They used to go. So they were advertised that "No. Now you'll have not to walk. The Company, they're making very easy-going railway." So they received it, "Oh! <span style="color:#ec710e">Kya pul banaya saheb company?</span> <span style="color:#128807">(What a wonderful bridge the saheb company made . . .)</span> (laughs) But their idea was to draw all the raw materials from villages and send it to England.

	'''Tamala Krsna:''' But they advertised, "Now you can go . . ."		'''Tamala Krsna:''' But they advertised, "Now you can go . . ."

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	'''Bhavananda:''' (laughs) No, Srila Prabhupada.		'''Bhavananda:''' (laughs) No, Srila Prabhupada.

	'''Tamala Krsna:''' But here it's prepared better. Here the cooking is more expert. They are not as . . . We are thinking that one of the cooks from New York . . . I'm going to suggest to ''Kartikeya'' Mahadevia . . . or now actually I think I'll just have her come here, you know. But I wanted one of the cooks from New York to come to India for one or two months to learn how to cook properly, so that . . . because one . . .		'''Tamala Krsna:''' But here it's prepared better. Here the cooking is more expert. They are not as . . . we are thinking that one of the cooks from New York . . . I'm going to suggest to ''Kartikeya'' Mahadevia . . . or now actually I think I'll just have her come here, you know. But I wanted one of the cooks from New York to come to India for one or two months to learn how to cook properly, so that . . . because one . . .

	'''Prabhupada:''' They can come here.		'''Prabhupada:''' They can come here.
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	'''Brahmananda:''' They say he will die from this.		'''Brahmananda:''' They say he will die from this.

	'''Tamala Krsna:''' All over his body these nodule protrusions have come, big lumps growing out, cancerous growths. After Ratha-yatra this happened. So he went into the hospital, and they nearly killed him in the hospital. Practically they killed. They put so many tests on him that he was nearly dead. He lost fifty, sixty pounds. He was practically dead. So I took, I, when I got him out of the hospital. 'Cause I what, there's no purpose. I could understand they didn't know what they were doing. They were just testing. So then he went . . . He's now in Mexican, in Tijuana, Mexico, and since taking this medicine all of the growths have gone away. Now how long he will live, that is another matter. But immediately all of these symptoms, outward symptoms, they're gone simply by taking this medical . . .		'''Tamala Krsna:''' All over his body these nodule protrusions have come, big lumps growing out, cancerous growths. After Ratha-yatra this happened. So he went into the hospital, and they nearly killed him in the hospital. Practically they killed. They put so many tests on him that he was nearly dead. He lost fifty, sixty pounds. He was practically dead. So I took, I, when I got him out of the hospital. 'Cause I what, there's no purpose. I could understand they didn't know what they were doing. They were just testing. So then he went . . . he's now in Mexican, in Tijuana, Mexico, and since taking this medicine all of the growths have gone away. Now how long he will live, that is another matter. But immediately all of these symptoms, outward symptoms, they're gone simply by taking this medical . . .

	'''Prabhupada:''' Herbs.		'''Prabhupada:''' Herbs.

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	'''Prabhupada:''' No, they were very good gentlemen. Dr. Urquhart was a godly man. He was so nice.		'''Prabhupada:''' No, they were very good gentlemen. Dr. Urquhart was a godly man. He was so nice.

	Satsvarupa: Isn't he the one who said the woman's brain, the woman's brain is thirty-two . . .		'''Satsvarupa:''' Isn't he the one who said the woman's brain, the woman's brain is thirty-two . . .

	'''Prabhupada:''' Yes, yes. I remember. He told, the woman's brain, thirty-four ounce, man's brain, up to sixty-four ounce. He told. I remember. He was very saintly man, Dr. Urquhart. And before that, there was one principal. He's Watt, Mr. Watt. He was the roughest man. He'd fight with the students like ''gunda'', Mr. Watt. But he was very good manager, principal.		'''Prabhupada:''' Yes, yes. I remember. He told, the woman's brain, thirty-four ounce, man's brain, up to sixty-four ounce. He told. I remember. He was very saintly man, Dr. Urquhart. And before that, there was one principal. He's Watt, Mr. Watt. He was the roughest man. He'd fight with the students like ''gunda'', Mr. Watt. But he was very good manager, principal.

	Satsvarupa: Did they try to make you Christian? Like that?		'''Satsvarupa:''' Did they try to make you Christian? Like that?

	'''Prabhupada:''' No. There was ''Bible'' class, compulsory, half an hour, from one to half past one.		'''Prabhupada:''' No. There was ''Bible'' class, compulsory, half an hour, from one to half past one.
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	'''Brahmananda:''' British Railway.		'''Brahmananda:''' British Railway.

	Satsvarupa: Company.		'''Satsvarupa:''' Company.

	'''Prabhupada:''' And they thought, "Oh, how beneficial the Amer . . . English, British Company. They're giving us so much facility." And English education. They wanted to conduct their office affairs; they required some clerk. They did not want any highly educated. "Work here - ABCD - that's all. 'Yes. No. Very good,' bas." (laughs) So . . . and as soon as you learn "Yes, no, very good," you get fifty rupees' salary. So they gave up living in . . . that time fifty rupees is now five thousand.		'''Prabhupada:''' And they thought, "Oh, how beneficial the Amer . . . English, British Company. They're giving us so much facility." And English education. They wanted to conduct their office affairs; they required some clerk. They did not want any highly educated. "Work here - ABCD - that's all. 'Yes. No. Very good,' bas." (laughs) So . . . and as soon as you learn "Yes, no, very good," you get fifty rupees' salary. So they gave up living in . . . that time fifty rupees is now five thousand.
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	'''Tamala Krsna:''' Very big man. He is very active. He's organizing everything, he and that Dean Kelly. What is his position?		'''Tamala Krsna:''' Very big man. He is very active. He's organizing everything, he and that Dean Kelly. What is his position?

	Satsvarupa: He's National Council of Churches.		'''Satsvarupa:''' He's National Council of Churches.

	'''Tamala Krsna:''' Yes. He's the head of the National Council of Churches, this Dean Kelly, and he is a very big proponent of our movement also.		'''Tamala Krsna:''' Yes. He's the head of the National Council of Churches, this Dean Kelly, and he is a very big proponent of our movement also.
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	'''Prabhupada:''' One Ameri . . . Indian, a very learned scholar in Chandigarh, he has given very good certificate. What is that?		'''Prabhupada:''' One Ameri . . . Indian, a very learned scholar in Chandigarh, he has given very good certificate. What is that?

	Satsvarupa: He said that, "There have been many commentaries on the ''Bhagavad-gita'', including Ramanuja, Madhva and Sankara, and then," he said: "Tilak and Gandhi, but of all of them the commentary by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is the greatest commentary." Punjab University. Then and he said later that, "In this suffering mankind, God has sent His Holiness A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami."		'''Satsvarupa:''' He said that, "There have been many commentaries on the ''Bhagavad-gita'', including Ramanuja, Madhva and Sankara, and then," he said: "Tilak and Gandhi, but of all of them the commentary by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is the greatest commentary." Punjab University. Then and he said later that, "In this suffering mankind, God has sent His Holiness A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami."

	'''Tamala Krsna:''' He said greater than the other acaryas.		'''Tamala Krsna:''' He said greater than the other acaryas.

	Satsvarupa: Yes. Greater than Ramanuja and Madhva.		'''Satsvarupa:''' Yes. Greater than Ramanuja and Madhva.

	'''Tamala Krsna:''' And he's a big man.		'''Tamala Krsna:''' And he's a big man.
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	'''Prabhupada:''' So let us do our duty. Our attempt Kṛṣṇa will see. That gentleman has written, "Swami Bhaktivedanta will be remembered for centuries, making history." Is not that?		'''Prabhupada:''' So let us do our duty. Our attempt Kṛṣṇa will see. That gentleman has written, "Swami Bhaktivedanta will be remembered for centuries, making history." Is not that?

	Satsvarupa: "Unsurpassed," this . . . not just remembered; it will be unsurpassed.		'''Satsvarupa:''' "Unsurpassed," this . . . not just remembered; it will be unsurpassed.

	'''Prabhupada:''' And many foreign scholars also, they have. In France . . . in France one professor has said, "The . . ."		'''Prabhupada:''' And many foreign scholars also, they have. In France . . . in France one professor has said, "The . . ."

	Satsvarupa: Chenique?		'''Satsvarupa:''' Chenique?

	'''Prabhupada:''' ". . . Aurobindo and Dr. Radhakrishnan, they have to, they have compromised with the Western idea, but here is the real tradition of India." Actually that's a fact. All of them, they have tried to make a hodgepodge. And from the beginning my idea was I shall present as it is. That's all. Therefore I gave this name, "As It Is." Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, ''yare dekha tare kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upadesa'' ([[CC Madhya 7.128\|CC Madhya 7.128]]). Why shall I manufacture idea? Present) as it is. All right.		'''Prabhupada:''' ". . . Aurobindo and Dr. Radhakrishnan, they have to, they have compromised with the Western idea, but here is the real tradition of India." Actually that's a fact. All of them, they have tried to make a hodgepodge. And from the beginning my idea was I shall present as it is. That's all. Therefore I gave this name, "As It Is." Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, ''yare dekha tare kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upadesa'' ([[CC Madhya 7.128\|CC Madhya 7.128]]). Why shall I manufacture idea? Present) as it is. All right.

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