Knowledge and detachment, not denial of natural desires, conquer the senses and awaken spiritual consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 14, 1974, Bombay 740414MW-BOMBAY [13:33 Minutes] Walk_740414MW-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: ...find out wine and woman. That's all. Girirāja: [reading from Kṛṣṇa book] "While they were thus enjoying themselves..." Prabhupāda: But in America I don't think there is such thing. Dr.
Patel: Because, these nightclubs and all these things is of this type.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Dr. Patel: Sex, merriment. I have not seen a single nightclub, though I studied in England for two years.
Prabhupāda: ...Nārada, but still they are sinful. Such a great personality like Nārada they have seen, but still they are sinful. Go on. Girirāja: "As such, the great sage Nārada considered that because the demigods Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva were so infatuated by false prestige, they should be put in a condition of life devoid of opulence." [break]
Prabhupāda: ...bench, standing. The small children, they are punished, "Stand up on the bench." It is like that. Dr. Patel: All vegetables are in tamas, in tamas [indistinct].
Prabhupāda: No. Some of them, fruitful, those trees for supplying nice fruits, nice flowers, they are in the goodness. Everywhere the three qualities are working. Yaśomatīnandana: There may be dog in the mode of goodness?
Prabhupāda: No, dog is an animal. He is in the ignorance. But the cow is in goodness. Sattva-raja-tamo.