When social order inverts natural duties, civilization becomes theater; only Krishna consciousness restores true stability.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...they will not walk on the street. This was the system. Rādhā-vallabha: You would never see them.
Prabhupāda: Hm? Rādhā-vallabha: You would never see them at all.
Prabhupāda: That is... Rādhā-vallabha: You want lunch? Do you want some lunch, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: If woman walks on the street then [s]he is not respectable. Now women are going to offices. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Now they are doing everything, even leading nations.
Prabhupāda: Nation is also doing that. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: In President Carter's new cabinet he included a woman as a secretary now, as a minister, for the first time, I think. Hari-śauri: In England also they have a woman Prime Minister for the first time. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: She's a leader of the opposition. Hari-śauri: No, she was the Prime Minister as well.
She's the opposition now. Prabhupāda: Woman is acting as police in England. Rādhā-vallabha: In Los Angeles there was this one man at the temple that we suspected that he had a gun. So we called the police. It is a difficult job for police when someone has a gun. They always send the best men.
So a car pulled up and a woman got out, and she crept up on the man to arrest him, and the men stayed in the car. Prabhupāda: Everything is becoming a farce. [break] What is that? Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: These are just some letters I'm sending with Rādhā-vallabha to Los Angeles. Rādhā-vallabha: When we reprint the Kṛṣṇa book trilogy this year, the hardbound, I was wondering, could we put more pictures in the second and third volumes? Not changing, but additional. Prabhupāda: Why increase cost? Rādhā-vallabha: I don't think it would be that much. The first volume has over sixty pictures, and the second one only has thirty-two and the third only has twenty-four. It will incr...