knife and fork

[Guest guest]

Prabhupada: Unnatural, yes. What for smoking? What for drinking? How nicely

they sit down on the ground and take prasadam. Why there is need of table,

chair and these dishes and fork and knife and so on, so on? Why?

Harikesa: It's hard to cut the meat. You need a good surface. (laughs)

Prabhupada: Our Bon Maharaja, once I was eating in his festival and... He's

a bara-sahib. So he has given fork and knife. (laughs) So I did not know, I

do not remember even which way I took fork. So Bon Maharaja began to

criticize "You are going to foreign country you do not know which hand to

take this fork and knife." So I told him, "I am not going to learn all these

things. I am going to teach them something else, to forget it. (laughter)

You went to learn all these things. But I am not going to learn anything."

 

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- August 2, 1976, New Mayapur

(French farm)