Systematic management, clear communication, and prasadam transform village communities into devoted servants.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: So explain the situation to them. Mahāṁsa: What happened a couple of times before over here was that some devotees became very passionate, mistreated a few village people over here, these laborers. And at that time many of the village people, from the villages, they came and they were protesting, and they made a big scene about it. One of them was Caraṇāravinda, who created a very... Prabhupāda: No, Caraṇāravinda is eccentric. Devotee: Too much. Mahāṁsa: And then there was Advaitācārya also. So there was very delicate situation, because these people, they...
It may be a very little thing, you know, little thing, which does not need much propaganda or anything like that, but the village people made it very big, and all the village people came... Prabhupāda: Naturally they do that. Mahāṁsa: They do that. They start... Because they have no other engagement. A little thing to excite them, then they want to become excited. Prabhupāda: In Bengal it is called tilke tāla.
Tāla, a palm fruit, it is big, and til, is the sesame. You know sesame seeds? Haṁsadūta: Sesame. Prabhupāda: Sesame, yes. That is very small.
So these seeds, sesame seed, is called til. Til-la, and they make it tāla. Instead of til, it becomes tāla, and then big mess. Tilke tāla.
The fact was til, but they called it tāla. Mahāṁsa: So that was happening. Then the other thing is that these people, they are very innocent people, and they are very superstitious also. So when they see foreigners, they immediately become a little afraid. And there is some kind of a complex that comes on them and it makes it very difficult for the foreigners to communicate with these people.
This is what I have seen happening. It is very difficult to commu... Now this is what I have experienced since last two, three days also. When Tejiyas was trying to get this garden around here done, but the laborers could not get the message across.
They were doing something else, and then the blame was coming on me. I never instructed them at all for doing anything. I never took them away from the work at all. I was amazed and I was surprised to hear that I was accused of taking away the laborers from Tejiyas and put them on some other work which I had no concern at all.