Morning Walk

Exercise Keeps the Body Fit but Tapasya Keeps the Soul Fit – NY Book Fund Sets New Record of Forty-Five Thousand Dollars

📅 January 21, 1974 📍 Honolulu ⏱ 5 min
Exercise keeps the body fit; only tapasya keeps the soul fit and purifies human existence.
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Morning Walk [Partially Recorded] — January 21, 1974, Honolulu 740121MW-HONOLULU [05:17 Minutes] Walk_740121MW-HONOLULU Prabhupāda: [japa] ..sinful activities, fishing. Just see. Killing another animal, beginning of life, of the day. Such a nice civilization they have created: waste of time and sinful activities.

Bali-mardana: The more they have extra time, the more they commit sins.

Prabhupāda: Yes. [break] ...śuddhyed. Life is meant for purifying the existence. They do not know it.

Rascal education, no education—still, they are Nobel Prize winner. Just see the kind. Mūḍha. So how many books distributed?

Who is a book distributor? Nobody? Sudāmā: Yesterday?

Prabhupāda: Yes? Sudāmā: Ah, I am not sure of the count...

Prabhupāda: [aside:] Oh, your child has also come. [laughing] Hari-Vallabha: Ātmārāma dāsa.

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