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More devotees crowded into the room. Since Prabhupada would be leaving for America the next day, this was the last chance devotees would get to be with their spiritual master.

Flowers and gifts piled up on the table as newly arrived devotees offered their obeisances. Tusta Krsna entered, now with shaved head and fully dressed in sannyasa garb. Prabhupada smiled affectionately.

"So, coming to your senses. Yes. So you are all good boys. I think we should work together for the greater benefit of this part of the world. We have got everything ready. Simply you have to distribute. We have nothing to manufacture."

Prabhupada spoke on, referring both to the CSIRO scientists' research work and to his disciple Dhaumya's idea of "learning" how to caste in brass.

"What can we manufacture? We are imperfect. Things manufactured by the perfect, take these things and disseminate them. That is intelligence. They are making research. What research? We are imperfect. What research we can do? It is not possible. Some big scientists came, so they are reading our books. Now I asked the scientist: 'You are a scientist. Your brain is working wonderfully, how do you manufacture a brain like yours.' There was no answer."

Prabhupada paused and looked around the room. "Is that argument all right? Manufacture another brain. But they cannot make even an ant's brain?" Prabhupada pointed to an imaginary ant on his desk. "The ant is going here. First you manufacture an ant like this in your laboratories. Then, sir, I accept that you are a scientist. Simply talking big, big words, and doing nothing. 'Big, big monkey, big, big belly, Ceylon jumping melancholy'."

The devotees laughed as they recited the last line along with Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada turned to Madhudvisa with surprise. "Oh, you have taught?" The devotees laughed even louder.

"Monkey, Hanuman, he jumped over the Indian Ocean, went to Ceylon. Another monkey came, 'Can you do?' (Laughter) So, big, big monkeys, this was translated by one big professor in Calcutta." Srila Prabhupada surveyed the devotees sitting before him. "You understand Bengali?" The devotees said no.

"So, bora bora bhande lel, bora bora pet, lanka dingate mattha kare het. It's translation is nice. So the meaning is, big, big monkeys, bora bora bhande lel. And bora bora pet means big, big bellies. And as soon as he is asked to jump over the Indian Ocean, mattha kare het. Bows down. So big, big scientists, and as soon as you ask them, just create one ant ..' (More laughter) Mattha kare het. And talking big, big words. 'Now we are making test tube, and this, that, we have produced life, and no more death.' And other monkeys, they will accept: 'Oh, he is a big scientist.' He is a monkey, big monkey, and other monkeys say 'Yes'. This is going on. Don't follow the monkey. Follow Krsna. There is no use of following a monkey with its big, big words.


- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu