Morning Walk in Los Angeles

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Morning Walk — October 3, 1972, Los Angeles 721003MW-LOS ANGELES [15:22 Minutes] Walk_721003MW-LOS ANGELES [in car] Svarūpa Dāmodara: It is dark.

Prabhupāda: It will be darker, darker. Acually [indistinct] morning walk at 5[?] or we will have to change our plan. [break] [on walk] [indistinct] ...and they are also making dog show. [laughter] Svarūpa Dāmodara: When I came here, I was walking and I saw big house and the restaurants.

So I didn't know what... So I asked somebody, "Oh, this is just [indistinct]." And afterward I found out it was some food made out of... Devotee (2): Meat. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.

But I thought in the other sense that it may be dog's meat. [break] ...neighbor from Poona—he was also from Calcutta; he was about fifteen years senior to me, he came little later than I—he thought... One day he came to me and he said he took a hamburger in the restaurant. He said that hamburger is not made out of beef.

He said it is made out of ham. So he said he had hamburger. He came to me and he said. I said, "So you have taken beef?" So he said, "No, it is not.

It is ham." Prabhupāda: Now many Indians are taking beef. Most. In London, all Indians they take beef. The schoolchildren, they take beef.

Jayatīrtha: They don't remember their culture. Svarūpa Dāmodara: When they come here, they change everything, most of them. Devotee (2): I run into many Indian people, many young boys going to school, on saṅkīrtana, on holidays. They don't want to try to understand Bhāgavata philosophy.

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