Reach the scholarly class through strategic literature distribution; politicians exploit ignorance and oppose God-consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — July 5, 1971, Los Angeles 710705R1-LOS ANGELES [63:20 Minutes] Conv_710705R1-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: …simply our literatures are meant for selling not for reading, is that very good sign? Reading first; selling secondary. [break] So you tasted this śukta? Devotee: Yes, very nice. Prabhupāda: Very nice? You have also tasted? Karandhara: I had a little that was left over that was cold. Prabhupāda: Never mind. [indistinct] Govinda dāsī: It’s delicious. Prabhupāda: Indian dishes, especially in Bengal, Bengal especially, the śukta is the beginning. Śāk and śukta.
Beginning vegetable and śukta, in the beginning. And at the end, milk, banana, sweet. Eating: beginning bitter, ending sweet. Madhureṇa samāpayet.
All kinds of tastes: bitter, sour, pungent, gradually ending in sweet. That is eating. Catur-vidha. Catur-vidha-śrī-bhagavat-prasāda [Śrī Gurv-aṣṭaka 4]. Carvya, cūṣya, lehya, peya.
Something chewing, something... What is called? Licking, something swallowing. Carvya, cūṣya, lehya, peya.
Cūṣya, cūṣya means just like a lozengers. What is called? Just not taken at once. What is? Devotees: Sucking.
Prabhupāda: Sucking, yes. Sucking, cūṣya, sucking. Carvya, chewing. Chewing, sucking, swallowing and drinking.
Four kinds of food must be there: carvya, cūṣya… Catur-vidha. Catur means four, and under four headings there are many items, tastes. That is tastes: bitter, sour, salty, pungent and so on. Then that is variety, this...