Colonial exploitation destroyed India's Vedic culture through systematic propaganda, not military force alone.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk -- October 13, 1975 , Durban 751013MW-DURBAN [77:55 Minutes] Walk_751013MW-DURBAN Prabhupāda: And this side, they are coming from Europe? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: This side, coming from the oil countries, coming down the coast, and also coming… [break]
Prabhupāda: How long they can stay in the water? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: If it’s warm weather they can stay all day.
Prabhupāda: Acchā? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: In the cold weather, a few hours. They put on these black suits made out of a certain fabric—it’s called a wet suit—and they are able to stay in the water much longer. It insulates, insulates the body from the cold water.
Prabhupāda: Going for surfing? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: These gentlemen? No, I don’t think so. These young boys are.
That, this kind of civilization, they think it is advanced. And to live very plainly, minimizing this unnecessary activity, they think it is not civilization. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Primitive.
Prabhupāda: Primitive, yes. But primitive meat-eating is continued. That is not to be stopped—primitive drinking and meat-eating. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Would you like a tissue, Śrīla Prabhupāda? A tissue? Prabhupāda: No.
Then? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So then the point is that they criticize that how we can preach such a civilization to the Western countries if even it’s not working in India today. Although theoretically it’s perfect, practically it’s not working. Prabhupāda: No. Practically, because you have preached your culture in India, therefore they have lost their own culture. The Western, the Britishers, were for two hundred years, and they preached.