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Hang a dummy monkey

Aksaya prabhu and I are engaged in a running battle with the monkeys. They raid Srila Prabhupada's garden, wrecking the plants -- especially chewing down the banana trees -- and pass stool and urine everywhere. We have a system where I chase them from the garden and he waits to ambush them on the other side of the wall.

So it was that just after lunch today I ran through Srila Prabhupada's sitting room carrying a big stick. He looked up with surprise and curiosity. "What is that?"

"The monkeys are in the garden again Prabhupada."

"Yes, beat them severely with big sticks and then they will stay away," he said approvingly. He said that the system is to kill one and hang it by the heels in the garden and then no others will come. "Of course, we cannot do that," he added. "But you can get one dummy and hang that."

As a result we contacted a local man and a dummy monkey now hangs upside-down from the back porch.

- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu

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