Without Krishna consciousness, all material advancement and national pride are merely sophisticated forms of animal consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — November 12, 1975, Bombay 751112MW-BOMBAY [36:42 Minutes] Walk_751112MW-BOMBAY Yaśomatīnandana: He will die by burning or something? Girirāja: He was laughing when they were burning the steel rods. So Gāṇdīva's mother said, "In the same way you will also die by burning." Dr. Patel: Who said?
Girirāja: Gāṇdīva's mother. Dr. Patel: No, but who said like that for that... Really he got burned, you know?
Girirāja: Yes [indistinct] Dr. Patel: This temple is his forefather's. And they were doing the śraddhā pūjā here. Then I knew that he died.
He was a great, sort of a roguish man. His grandfather or somebody had some power to know things here and there, and people used to come and worship him and give him some money. But this man started fanning him exactly like this, sort of a [Hindi]. Parsis are coming very often.
Parsis are very simple community. Nara: He has committed suicide? Dr. Patel: Yes, he has committed suicide, rightfully.
Nara: He was drinking and... Dr. Patel: What was he not doing? What was he not doing?
He was in all this sort a big debauch—mentally, physically, all sensually.