Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: Hey? Who is this?
*Devotee: [over sound system] Jaya Jaya Jaya Prabhupāda! [sings] nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale…
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa [break] Hmm? Yes.
Upendra: The flies don’t like nim.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Upendra: They don’t like nim? The flies.
Prabhupāda: That ask them. [laughter] You do not expect all answers from me, whether the flies like or not like. This is antiseptic. Nim is very, very antiseptic. Therefore it is natural, the flies and bugs, they are afraid of. Yes. [break] …here?
Harikeśa: He’s the purchaser.
Akṣayānanda: He does shopping.
Prabhupāda: Namaskar. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [Transl. Is your health good?]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes, Prabhupāda.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. When did you come?]
*Indian man: [Transl. I have been here since the month of Śrāvaṇa. [July–August] We are having a big program here. Last year we held it and this year also we are continuing it.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Where is your program?]
*Indian man: [Transl. In Fogla āśrama.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. I see! That…]
*Indian man: [Transl. …Caitanya-līlā. Hargovind Svāmī. That…What’s his name?]
Indian man: Dhandhariya.
Prabhupāda: Dandhariya. Where is he? [Transl. One who captures dhana] [wealth.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Very strongly.] [laughs]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Dhandhariya means one who holds money. Is it not?]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes. Holds well and tight.]
Prabhupāda: He knows how to capture. He is the… [Transl. It is his institution I think.]
*Indian man: [Transl. He is the organizer. But I am the director.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. You were supposed to go to the foreign countries?]
*Indian man: [Transl. Did you go to the foreign countries like Japan, Hong Kong? We met the devotees in Hong Kong temple and had kīrtana together. About four or five persons were there from our group. The organizing secretary of Viśva Hindu Parisad and some others were there. We toured Indonesia, and especially in Singapore we had very good time. We toured many places and chanted Haribol! And they were saying, we will send you tickets. You come every year.]
*Prabhupāda: [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. [Transl. A lot of Hindus live there.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Many Hindus reside there. This side we have not visited yet. Europe we have gone. We lived there three months.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. First…]
*Indian man: [Transl. First we went to Lagos. In Lagos we performed kīrtana in a Gurudvāra for ten days. Very pompously. Then the Communists started giving us trouble.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Commissioner?]
*Indian man: [Transl. No, the Communists people. They deported us and we then went to Bankok from there. In Bankok we stayed for two months and chanted Haribol vigourusly. This is where local people liked the music of haribol very much.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. That is wanted. Caitanya…]
*Indian man: [Transl. The holy name.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Harer nāma. [Cc Ādi 17.21 / Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa 38.126]
*Indian man: [Transl. Harināma. It was God’s mercy! Then from Hong Kong we went to Singapore. Then Japan. In Japan a program was arranged by the Indian Social Society. All Hindu families gathered in that program.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Where in Japan? Tokyo?]
*Indian man: [Transl. No. [break] There we stayed Kuwait.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. There are many Hindus in Kuwait.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Many Hindu Families live in Kuwait.]
Prabhupāda: Hmm. [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.
*Indian man: [Transl. Then Singapore, Jakarta. You had been to Jakarta I believe?]
Prabhupāda: Hmm.
*Indian man: [Transl. They told me. And in Kowloon, Hong Kong you have got a temple! Two of your devotees met us there. They would play khol: drum with us. We took great pleasure, Mahārājajī. Huge preaching was done there. Here in Asia there is not much need of Hindi.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. No. Only in China.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Then one family was about to send us to Sydney. We were tired, and I said, no sir, I will go back to Vṛndāvana now.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Sydney…In Fiji we have got a mandir.]
*Indian man: [Transl. You have one in Fiji?]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes. In Sydney also. Mahārājajī, here your mandir is so beautiful that it is always crowded like Bihārijī and Rādhāramanajī. Lots of people come.]
*Indian man: [Transl. As if Mahāprabhu has personally appeared here.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. I thought nobody will come so far.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Oh No! Rādhe Rādhe! It has become famous now as aungrejoka mandir] [English temple.] (laughs)]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. It is indeed English temple. They are the ones who brought all the money. Not Englishmen, [Britishers] but Americans.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Their dollar rate is very high also, Mahārājajī. Hong Kong currency value is double than ours, and American dollar is very expensive. If you bring 100 dollar it becomes 800 rupees in India.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. 800 rupees is bank rate per 100 dollar and if you sell it in black market it is even more.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes, more. When I brought I brought it through bank.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Hmm. It is 7.5 or 7.75 like that.]
*Indian man: [Transl. They gave me 8.30 rate.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Somehow or other the holy name, Hare Kṛṣṇa, must be preached.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Someone was telling me, I think Rama Niwas that the Prime Minister has called you. She wants to discuss with you something. Did she?]
Prabhupāda: Hmm.
*Indian man: [Transl. I see. So did you meet her or not yet?]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes, I met.]
*Indian man: [Transl. I see. Is her intention favourable towards your mission?]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Her personality is very good. Personally she appreciated our mission. Anyone for that matter would appreciate. So much good work is going on throughout the whole world. Only a fool will not appreaciate it. This thing never happened in the History. Anyone with a brain would appreaciate it. Some people appreaciate and some people try to put obstacles in the way. Such people are also there.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Many people ask me regarding this that such a huge society has come into existence, so what is the truth behind it? Do they spy upon us or something? We have to convince people here very strongly.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. That is the rumour they are spreading that these people are spies.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes. But we convince them clearly that they are pure vaiṣṇavas. So far many ācāryas…Actually no ācārya has gone there as yet, but those mahātmas who have gone abroad they have not preached strongly. We got good result for our labour in Hong Kong. They liked us very much.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Amongst Cinmayānanda’s followers there is no foreigner. Only Hindus follow him.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes, yes. You are right.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. If any religious person goes and speaks the poor Hindus who are fallen into illusion, they come to hear something. They don’t get any opportunity. But the Hindus will remain as they are no matter how much they appreaciate you. They will…]
*Indian man: [Transl. …never change completely.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Their demand is, give blessings so that our income will increase.]
*Indian man: [Transl. [laughs] Yes.]
Prabhupāda: Where is Guṇārṇava, he has not come?
Akṣayānanda: No.
Prabhupāda: So he is going to Mathurā? You told him? Huh?
Akṣayānanda: He is going after breakfast.
Devotee: What is the purpose?
Akṣayānanda: To meet Prabhupāda’s relative, I think?
Prabhupāda: Yes. You have told?
Devotee: Oh. Yes.
Prabhupāda: So from Mathurā he can bring that medicine. You can give him.
Devotee: Castor oil.
Akṣayānanda: I’ll tell him, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: No, no, castor oil can be had…
Upendra: Yogendra Ras and *Rasanta * [indistinct].
Akṣayānanda: I’ll have him bring it.
Prabhupāda: You can take the vial. There is, what is called? Sādhanā Auṣadhālaya [medical store].
Akṣayānanda: I see.
Indian man: Dhaka. [Dacca] [Capital of Bangladesh]
Prabhupāda: Yes. [Transl. Yes, it is from Dhaka.] From there you have to take it.
Akṣayānanda: *Sādhanā Auṣadhālaya. *
Prabhupāda: Sādhanā. On the bottle it is written there.
Akṣayānanda: I’ll have him do it.
*Indian man: [Transl. Mahārājajī, will you be able to spare some time either in the morning or in the evening? When should we arrange your program there? A grand program because a huge crowd usually gathers. One day we must dance and chant together and enjoy. Also it will be a good publicity for your mission. We will also tell people about you all.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. What will happen?]
*Indian man: [Transl. The holy name will be spread. And your feetdust will bless the place.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. That I have got experience in India that no matter how much you tell them their round shaped tail will not straighten.]
*Indian man: [Transl. [laughs It will remain crooked.]
Prabhupāda: They will never take seriously. [Transl. The Māyāvāda philosophy has ruined them. This I know very well. All are Māyavādīs: impersonalists. They say, God has no form. He is formless. That’s all. It is very difficult to convince them. And Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said, māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa. [Cc Madhya 6.169]
*Indian man: [Transl. …haya sarva-nāśa.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. One will be doomed for whole life. Anyone who accepts māyāvāda philosophy his life is ruined.]
*Indian man: [Transl. His determination will diminish.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. No determination he has got. He is an atheist. All Māyāvādīs are atheists. Their religion is simply an artificial show. They are all atheists! God exists, but God has no form! That’s it! All finished! Kṛṣṇe aparādhī [Cc Madhya 17.129] They are offender to Kṛṣṇa, all these Māyāvādīs. And in Vṛndāvana this Māyāvādī philosophy has become very strong. Even the so-called Vaiṣṇavas, they are also… [Transl. Many Māyāvādīs come to us and we welcome them and give them a chance. But that poison-form has come from the formless. They begin to poison our men like this. Bhagavān has Himself said, avyaktaṁ vyaktim āpannaṁ manyante mām abuddhayaḥ [Bg 7.24] That previously I was formless and now I have accepted a form-only fools accept this theory. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto, they do not understand His Supreme nature. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu never used to mix with them when He went to Vārāṇasī]
*Indian man: [Transl. During His time almost all the Māyāvādīs were uprooted. Everyone became devotees.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. That is another thing. But personally…]
*Indian man: [Transl. …hesitated to meet them?]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes. Now in India especially, everyone has become Māyāvādī. Māyāvādī…What is that?
māyāvādam asac-chāstraṁ
pracchannaṁ bauddham ucyate
[Padma Purāṇa, Uttara-khaṇḍa 62.31/ Cc Madhya 6.182]
[Lord Śiva informed goddess Durgā, the superintendent of the material world:] “In the Age of Kali I take the form of a brāhmaṇa and explain the Vedas through false scriptures in an atheistic way, similar to Buddhist philosophy.”]
*Indian man: [Transl. Pracchannaṁ bauddham, what?]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Bauddham ucyate. It is nothing but Buddhism in a covered way. The Buddhists say that…You will understand English?]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes. Yes.]
Prabhupāda: Buddhist, they say that there is no God.
Indian man: They can’t believe God.
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, they deny. Therefore we call them atheist. But these Māyāvādī, they take the shelter of Vedas and they preach the same philosophy: “Yes, brahma-nirākāra: [formless].” [Transl. He has no hands, no legs, no face, nothing. If your hands are cut off, legs are cut off, throat is cut off, then what remains of you? What is left? If you are formless then what else remains? This is their philosophy. At least they directly say we don’t believe in God. And the Māyāvādīs, taking shelter of the Vedas, declare God is impersonal. He has no form. That’s all. This cheating is going on. At that time,] for the time being, Śaṅkarācārya might have said something like that to turn the Buddhists again to Vedas, but that is temporary. But they have taken it all through.
*Indian man: [Transl. He wrote a commentary on Viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma: [one thousand names of Lord Viṣṇu.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. He was an incarnation of Lord Śiva. Can he ever be a non devotee? That was only a propaganda. Even Buddha was an incarnation of the Supreme Lord.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes, Buddha is also an incarnation.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes. But the philosophy should be understood correctly. What is happening at what time and circumstances. But no, that is applicable for ever. This is foolishness!]
*Indian man: [Transl. I saw in Thailand that all the followers of Buddha eat everything and what not.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. They eat everything.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Food intake is a big problem.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Here in India this Rama Krishna mission people eat everything. Do you know this?]
*Indian man: [Transl. Yes, I have seen everything.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. And they openly argue that what’s harm in eating this? Sometimes when our students happen to meet them, they say, we have given up everything! No difficulty at all! They are almost one hundred years,] …eighty-five years they are working. They have no position. [Transl. And this Mahesh Yogi advertises,] What is that? TM?
Brahmānanda: TM, Transcendental Meditation.
Prabhupāda: And what is the items they say?
Brahmānanda: No philosophy, no belief, no restrictions.
*Prabhupāda: [laughs] Just see. He is advertising. Mahesh Yogi.
Indian man: Mahesh Yogi, yes, his followers, they are taking everything.
Prabhupāda: He says, “There is no restriction, or no philosophy, no faith.”
Prabhupāda: He says, “There is no restriction, or no philosophy, no faith.” [Transl. Our scriptures declare, dharmeṇa hīnāḥ paśubhiḥ samānāḥ, [Hitopadeśa 25] and they preach there is no need of dharma or anything! This is going on. Their dharma is, yata mata tata patha [as many opinions as many ways], Vivekananda also said this. As many opinions… [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa.]
*Indian man: [Transl. But they will not be successful, because the yuga-dharma is saṅkīrtana.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes!]
*Indian man: [Transl. Without saṅkīrtana these people are just like glow-worms who shine for a while and then vanish.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. That’s what is happening. I am seeing it. People join for a few days and then…. For our movement, big, big scholars have written books!]
*Indian man: [Transl. Really?]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes!] Recently one book was published by Professor Judah. He has studied this movement for five years. He came to India. So he has written one book, Hare Krishna and Counterculture, Very scholarly. [Transl. Very learned person!] He appreciated. [Transl. Many more books are being published by our movement.]
*Indian man: [Transl. You have got so many literatures even now.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. At least fifty books I have, four hundred pages each. Let all the missionaries show like this!] And we are selling twenty lakhs’ worth monthly.
*Indian man: [Transl. Monthly, yes.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. That’s how we maintain this huge organization!]
*Indian man: [Transl. And you have lot of expenditure I am sure.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Here our monthly expenditure is about twenty thousand rupees.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Here alone.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. And we don’t care. Whatever is required spend it. That’s all.]
*Indian man: [Transl. You are right.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Most people cheat them. What can be done? Ok! You are bringing! You spend it! But we are Indians, we have to protest, “Look boys, you are spending too much!” But they don’t know. People cheat them. What can be done?]
*Indian man: [Transl. Would you go still far or this is enough?]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. Little more we will go.]
*Indian man: [Transl. Ok. I will stop here.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. All right.]
*Indian man: [Transl. So Mahārājajī, at least one day we will arrange your program either in the morning or in the evening as you please.]
*Prabhupāda: [Transl. I will let you know.]
*Indian man: [Transl. That’s good. I will be meeting you daily.]
Akṣayānanda: Nobody knows your limit, Prabhupāda. Nobody knows your limit.
Prabhupāda: No, generally. Who remembers?
Harikeśa: It was way back there.
Brahmānanda: It was back there by that… [laughter]
Prabhupāda: Huh? No, no. I remember.
Akṣayānanda: I think it was here somewhere. [break]
Prabhupāda: Ants are freely moving. They do not know it is dangerous. Similarly, all these living entities in material world, they think, “It is not dangerous. It is all right.” Ant civilization.
French devotee (1): Śrīla Prabhupāda, is there some worship of God in the animal kingdom?
Prabhupāda: No. [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Harikeśa: Hut hut hut hut!
Prabhupāda: “*Hut” *will not do.
Brahmānanda: Stick will do.
Prabhupāda: At least show. [break] Trees and other lower animals, they are abiding by the order of Kṛṣṇa. That is worship.
Brahmānanda: But is it voluntary or involuntary?
Prabhupāda: By force. By force now this tree is standing. He has to stand up here. It cannot move an inch.
Brahmānanda: Would that be considered worship if it is…?
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is.
Akṣayānanda: Indirect worship.
Prabhupāda: Indirect worship, abiding. Just like you don’t worship the government, revolt. But when you are put into jail you have to worship the government.
Akṣayānanda: We don’t worship, yet we don’t break the law.
Prabhupāda: You cannot break the law. Outside you break law. That you can do. But when you are put into jail, then you cannot. And jail means unless the government finds that you are now obedient to the government laws… [dog growling and barking]
Brahmānanda: Hut!
Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: He is taking our shelter, [laughter] the other dog.
Akṣayānanda: I’ve seen dogs follow saṅkīrtana party for many miles. Once a dog was following, and he had tilaka, he had a tilaka mark on his head.
Prabhupāda: No, no. Who? Who marked it? Somebody? No, no. You should not do it.
Brahmānanda: Did someone put tilaka on the dog?
Akṣayānanda: Oh, I mean to say the color of his body was such.
Prabhupāda: Oh, that is another thing. But you cannot put tilaka. Don’t make* tilaka *so cheap. Natural tilaka, that is another thing.
Akṣayānanda: Yes.
French devotee (2): If a devotee step on the ant, does the ant receive some benefit?
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
French devotee (2): If a devotee step on a ant by mistake, the ant…
Prabhupāda: You should be careful. Why should you commit mistake? But if unconsciously by mistake it is done, that is another thing.
Brahmānanda: He wants to know does the ant receive benefit?
Prabhupāda: No. Then he will be lenient to kill them to give them benefit. [laughter] He’ll be so…
Brahmānanda: Like they say “mercy killing,” that “This is good for you. I will kill you and it is good for you.”
Prabhupāda: Yes. You should always think that you are responsible for its killing. But it may be Kṛṣṇa may excuse you. That is another thing. Consciously you cannot kill. [break]
Akṣayānanda: …people in India, Prabhupāda, are still pure vegetarians, but almost all of their children eat eggs and try to smoke cigarettes, and they don’t stop them because they don’t have any philosophy because of the Māyāvādī philosophy.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Akṣayānanda: Almost 90% of all the people we preach to, they are all influenced by Māyāvādī philosophy.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That I was talking. [break]
Brahmānanda: …say that the egg is from God and the apple is from God.
Prabhupāda: So why don’t you eat apple? [laughter]
Akṣayānanda: They are also envious of you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: I know that. Do they say like that?
Akṣayānanda: Not directly. But when we explain how many things, what is being done, and we show photographs, how people have become devotees, they will say, “Yes, but have you heard of Swami So-and-so?” And we’ll say, “Yes, we have heard of him. But our Guru Mahārāja has got thousands of devotees all over the world.” “Yes, he has also got thousands of devotees.” They’ll minimize, even though it’s there in black and white.
Prabhupāda: But where they are?
Brahmānanda: Yeah. Where are those thousands of disciples of these other swamis?
Prabhupāda: “Here we are, but where are the swami’s disciples?” Ask them.
Akṣayānanda: Then they will become angry.
Prabhupāda: “No, no. Well, don’t be angry. Well, Bhaktivedanta Swami’s disciples, we are present here. Present anyone else. So how shall I believe you?”
Akṣayānanda: Then they will say, “We are doing the same as you. But we don’t have to help you because we are already doing the same thing. We are feeding the poor, giving charity.”
Prabhupāda: Yes. They do not understand.
Akṣayānanda: But yet their children are eating eggs, giving up. [break]
Brahmānanda: …say that they are doing the same thing that we are doing, then that should be a reason to help us, not to not help us. If we’re doing the same thing, therefore if you are helping one, then you must help the other also.
Akṣayānanda: Yes. That’s what I tell them. They say, “We already helped the other, but you came too late, so therefore we can’t help you.”
Prabhupāda: “So you are so poor?”—[aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa—“that you cannot help the second man? Then how you are charitable? You must be open to give charity to everyone.” No use talking.
French devotee (1): They are very rich, Śrīla Prabhupāda. They are very rich.
Prabhupāda: Richer than us? [laughter] Do you think?
French devotee (1): No.
Prabhupāda: How many branches he has got of his business?
Akṣayānanda: So I usually tell them, “It is not for us that we want help, but so that we can help others.” They like that. They can appreciate humanitarian viewpoint, material benefit. That’s all.
Prabhupāda: So we are giving the best humanitarian service—to stop his repetition of birth and death.
Brahmānanda: The final solution.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Brahmānanda: This is the final solution.
Akṣayānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, in India, now in the cities, wherever we go, there are so many big cinema houses being built. So if the young people are not yet tired of that, then how will we convince them of Kṛṣṇa consciousness? They all go by the thousands to the cinema house.
Prabhupāda: You approach the cinema proprietor and make him a member. We have got contribution from a very big cinema man.
Brahmānanda: Raj Kapoor has become a patron member.
Prabhupāda: You can show his letter, how he appreciates. So similarly, you can collect some money. So this money is coming from the cinema visitors, so indirectly they will be benefited. Yes.
Akṣayānanda: That is only indirectly, eh? Money is there, and they will give. Still they’ll go on showing the nonsense, and all the young people are going and being corrupted.
Prabhupāda: That is going on everywhere, not only in the cinema. Karmīs. So our duty is to take some service; then they will be benefited by that. Kuruṣva tad mad-arpaṇam. [Bg. 9.27] Kṛṣṇa says, “Whatever you do doesn’t matter. The result, give Me.” [break]
French devotee (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda, they to cinema because they have no adventures in their life. So they go to cinema. If they become Kṛṣṇa conscious, so they don’t need to go to cinema.
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa conscious is not so cheap. Have you come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Don’t take Kṛṣṇa consciousness so cheap that they will go to cinema and become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Brahmānanda: No, he says that if they become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then they will stop going to the cinema.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is the test. [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. This is the test. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra [SB 11.2.42].* Advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness means he’s no more interested with anything material. That is Kṛṣṇa conscious. There is a Bengali proverb, āmi ḍuḍ o khāya ṭāmāk o khāya: [The children, they take milk, and adults, they smoke.] So one [tender boy speaks in stammering words. Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī quotes in his Upākhyāne Upadeśa] is speaking that “I take milk and smoke also.”
Brahmānanda: He thinks he’s all right. “I’m okay.”
Prabhupāda: Yes. “I go to temple and I do all nonsense also.” Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa. We shall go directly temple?
Brahmānanda: Yes. [end]