We have a "Beware of Dog" society.

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We Have a Barking Dog Civilization

Kurma Prabhu tells how Srila Prabhupada was refused entry to Singapore:

Srila Prabhupada travelled with three disciples from Calcutta to Sydney via Singapore. Shyamasundara acted as his secretary, Pradyumna as his servant and Sanskrit editor, and Nanda Kumara as his cook.

On arrival at Singapore airport, however, without explanation, immigration authorities flatly refused Srila Prabhupada and his entourage entry into the country. Nanda Kumara spoke to the head man, a Chinese official. Mr. Bhajwani, who was there to greet Srila Prabhupada, also tried frantically to appease the authorities.

Prabhupada sat down in the crowded transit lounge, disappointed and feeling ill, while Shyamasundara went to try to book a flight to Sydney. Prabhupada had often complained about immigration officers, who, totally ignorant of spiritual etiquette, would question a sadhu at the border. He compared them to barking watchdogs: "Yeow, yeow, yeow - where is your visa?"

Formerly, he had explained, a sadhu would be allowed unhindered entrance, even to a king's palace. In the course of preaching, certainly Prabhupada was prepared to undergo difficulties. But this unequivocal refusal of entry was particularly disturbing.

In this connection Srila Prabhupada explained as follows in a Bhagavad-gita lecture he gave in London on 4 August 1971:

So we are..., we have cultivated a nice human society that there are all, I mean to say, what is called, dogs. The immigration department: " Ohhh... Why you have come here? Gow!" [laughter] "Yes, sir, I have come here not to harm you. I have to speak something, nice thing." "How long you shall stay?" [laughter] "Oh, not more than one month." "All right. I give you..." [laughter] So immediately watchdog. In every house, "Beware of dog." "Don't enter. Beware of dog." This is human civilization. You see?
You cannot enter anyone's house, you cannot enter anyone's country. And if you do... This means this want of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But the Vedic culture says, gṛham śatrum api prāptaṁ viśvastam akuto bhayam. Even if your enemy comes to your home, you should receive him in such a way that he'll forget that you are his enemy.

Let us put a stop to this barking dog civilization by the wide scale introduction of Harinam sankirtan in every town, city, and village throughout the entire world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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