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George Harrison: Everything’s so dry this year, lots of trees and things dying without water.
Prabhupada: That is the punishment for this age. It is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. There will be scarcity of rain and there will be scarcity of food and heavy taxation by government. And people will become mad on account of these three things. Anavrsti, durbhiksa, kara-piditah.
George Harrison: It’s getting dryer in England each year. It’s probably going to end up as a desert in another hundred years.
Prabhupada: They expect like that?
George Harrison: Well, I don’t know. I think the whole world’s changing. Somebody said it’s the pollution, leaves so much…, there’s so much of the oceans now with polluted and with oil on the top, there’s not so much evaporation anymore.
Prabhupada: Not in the ocean. It is the sinful activities of the populace. That is real problem. They are all engaged in sinful activities. Especially this innocent animal killing. These are the all reaction.
Gurudasa: In New York they had one island of refuse floated in to shore. For years they were building up island of refuse, and it floated in, and now no one can go to the beaches.
Prabhupada: Samosa. Where is samosa? There is only one left?
George Harrison: I’m okay, actually.
Devotee (2): There is sour cream.
George Harrison: I’ve got plenty, thanks.
Prabhupada: Prasada, we can eat up to the neck. (laughter) There is no harm. You’ll never get indigestion. You have got some fruits?
George Harrison: Yes.
Mukunda: There’s a very nice mango preparation there, did you taste?
George Harrison: Which one?
Mukunda: Mango.
George Harrison: Oh, this one.
Prabhupada: One German girl has prepared. We are introducing restaurants like this, and people are liking very much. We have got one restaurant in Hawaii, another restaurant we are organizing in Boston. That is being directly done by Alfred. You have met Alfred?
Gurudasa: Alfred Ford, the grandson of Henry Ford.
George Harrison: No, I’ve never met him.
Prabhupada: Oh. He is also a very nice boy. Of course, younger than you. He’s only twenty-four years. What is your age now?
George Harrison: Thirty-three.
Prabhupada: Thirty-three. That boy is also very nice young boy. Give Jayatirtha? No?
George Harrison: Do you feed everybody who comes Sunday?
Prabhupada: Sunday we have about five hundred to one thousand.
George Harrison: :So they must cook for days to feed all those people.
Gurudasa: No, day before, night before.
George Harrison: Do they bring food as well?
Gurudasa: They bring grains or something like that.
Prabhupada: We had a very gorgeous Ratha-yatra ceremony in New York last Sunday.
George Harrison: Hm?
Prabhupada: Sunday, eighteenth.
Pusta Krsna: A week ago yesterday.
Prabhupada: Give…
Gurudasa: We fed about ten thousand that day.
Prabhupada: Cauliflower. Take little.
George Harrison: I can’t finish. (laughter) I’m trying to finish one so I can start on the next. I was sick also lately. I had something, I went yellow. I had jaundice. Don’t know why, just had food poisoning or something, and it affected my liver.
Prabhupada: Who cooks for you?
George Harrison: Sometimes me, sometimes, ah…. I don’t know, I think we’d had some Chinese food.
Prabhupada: Oh, you should not take.
George Harrison: Because I was working as well, so I, you know I think I was pretty tired.
Prabhupada: Better you cook simple food yourself and take it.
George Harrison: The only thing I could eat was papaya.
Prabhupada: Papaya is very good, yes.
George Harrison: I still have…
Prabhupada: Give him, give him, give him. No, that is the different. Oh, all right. We are just attempting a big planetarium in Mayapur. We have asked government to acquire land, 350 acres. That is negotiation going on. We shall give a Vedic planetarium.
George Harrison: Is that the one you were talking about? With all the…
Prabhupada: In the Fifth Canto.
Gurudasa: The planetarium will be 350 feet high and show the cosmology of the spiritual world.
Prabhupada: The construction will be like your Washington capital, like that.
George Harrison: A big dome.
Prabhupada: Yes. Estimated eight crores of rupees. Is there any dahi preparation? Oh, that’s all right. Now, there is fruit. You…
George Harrison: Very good. Fantastic. Maybe just a little bit of, but now I’m not…. Thanks. That’s fine. No, okay, thanks, fine, that’s enough, that’s fine.
Prabhupada: That watermelon, you can give. It is water.
George Harrison: Now let me finish all this.
Prabhupada: This is that mango preparation.
George Harrison: Okay.
Devotee (2): It’s coming.
Prabhupada: You like that preparation? Yes.
George Harrison: We used to have this with milk at Hrsikesa. Every day they’d leave outside of the door. It’s good. Do you, Mukunda, break even with all the costs, running cost? Do you do okay with all this food, fruit and stuff?
Mukunda: Oh, yes. More than even. We have about thirteen hundred life members in the Indian community. And then when they come on the weekends they bring food, they bring these hundred pound donations, money in the box.
George Harrison: At one time you just had the Godhead and incense.
Mukunda: Yes, now it’s all public support.
Jayatirtha: We don’t sell incense anymore.
Mukunda: And the books we just sell for very little; we hardly make any money on them at all.
Prabhupada: Are you reading sometimes my books? Which one?
George Harrison: Mainly Krsna.
Prabhupada: That is the main book. (laughs)
George Harrison: Mukunda gave me the new books, but there’s so much in, ah, there’s just so much to read.
Prabhupada: Philosophy.
George Harrison: I don’t know how anybody could have written it, it’s difficult enough to read all that amount.
Prabhupada: Sometimes they are surprised how one man can write so many books, but it is Krsna’s grace. Otherwise not possible. Human being, it is not possible.
Conversation with George Harrison
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
July 26, 1976, London
full conversation: http://causelessmercy.com/t/t/760726rc.lon.htm
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