Prabhupāda: Fools, they assemble together, and people are unhappy. Democracy. Eh? Communist? ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: But they have some sort of democracy themselves. ¶
Prabhupāda: They are dictators. Actually, Stalin’s dictatorship was going on. ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: It’s all dictatorship. ¶
Prabhupāda: Eh? ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Democracy is also dictatorship, but by elections. They elect a fool… ¶
Prabhupāda: [laughs] ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: …and then he can be…, do whatever he wants. [indistinct] powerful as a king. [break] ¶
Prabhupāda: The sacrifice means the animal slaughter has to be made in the mosque, is it not? ¶
Devotee: Yes. I think so. ¶
Prabhupāda: Eh? ¶
Devotee: It has to be made under special conditions. [break] ¶
Prabhupāda: …they can be turned into Vaiṣṇavas. [break] Young preachers, hopeless [break] …real thing, and people follow, then everything is perfect. ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes, then you can rule the world. ¶
Prabhupāda: Yes. [break] …side combined together it is very pleasing. [break] Eh? ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Tehran used to be very beautiful before there were so many cars. Very clear, very clear. And the land, when I was a child, the land was very, very cheap here. So now it is, everything, very, very expensive and very polluted with car. ¶
Prabhupāda: Due to the cars? ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. ¶
Devotee: Everyone was a farmer, now everyone is a factory worker. ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. So it was very nice, very clear and very nice. ¶
Prabhupāda: Again let them become farmers. [break] ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: The mornings were largely very cool, very cool, and during the day it was very hot. The mornings were always very clear and cool. [devotees chanting japa in background] [break] ¶
Prabhupāda: Enquire. ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes, we [indistinct]. [break] ¶
Prabhupāda: …questions. ¶
Devotee: We’re going to help him write it. [break] ¶
Prabhupāda: In India, Tirupati, I think that Deity is richer than many kings in the world. Daily, 100,000 rupees, not less, daily. [break] …few kings who has got so much money? If you organize, you can take the whole income for cause of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, if you are really organized. That is possible. ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Where is this temple? ¶
Prabhupāda: In South India. ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: South India. [break] [indistinct] and searching, searching you’ll find in modern [indistinct] very hard penalties. For industrialists, they are making life very difficult. ¶
Prabhupāda: Where? Where? ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: In India. ¶
Prabhupāda: In India. Oh. ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: One industrialist friend, Patel’s friend, who has come to Tehran, I visited him. Very, very rich industrialist. He built a temple, very nice temple, he said, and then the government was not pleased that he has built a temple, and they came and searched his house and gave him twenty million rupees’ penalty. ¶
Prabhupāda: For constructing a temple? ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Well, for taxes and things. But their real reason was they were not happy that he was spending his money to construct a temple. I don’t think even [indistinct] permit this Juhu Beach. ¶
Prabhupāda: Huh? ¶
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Juhu Beach temple? You couldn’t get permit? ¶
Prabhupāda: I don’t mind. Our work is going on. It doesn’t matter. [end] ¶