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Temples Misuse Donations for Business, Rejecting KC Is Conscious Suicide

📅 April 13, 1976 📍 Bombay ⏱ 20 min
Rejecting Krishna consciousness after hearing it is knowingly drinking poison; constant remembrance of Krishna alone constitutes genuine spiritual life.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: We have already constructed for our residential quarters. That is already there, very big. Such a big building is not there in that district. Indian man (1): [Transl. Anyone who visits Vṛndāvana temple…]

Prabhupāda: [Transl. Han.] Indian man: [Transl. …each one of them glorifies it.]

Prabhupāda: [Transl. Really?] Indian man: [Transl. Everyone. There are so many temples in Vṛndāvana they say.] Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Actually, Prabhupāda is doing everything.

We are simply like puppets. He tells us what to do. Indian man: [Transl. Whoever saw it.] Pusta Kṛṣṇa: Transcendental management.

Indian man (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda? The temple in Bombay, what you are constructing, the gate only going to be like another Indian temples, only gates. They look like a bigger temple. Dr.

Patel: You mean those pitchers and flag? In south we have got those temples, gates. That is only common in southern India but not in anywhere else. Gopurams: ornamental gateway of a temple.

Prabhupāda: Gopurams. Dr. Patel: Gopurams are not found anywhere else. Indian man (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda… Prabhupāda: [Transl. No, you have got it in Bombay. Fanaswadi.] Indian man: Fanaswadi. Dr. Patel: Gopuram?

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