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   <interview>
      <title>Interview of Mr. Baldev Krishnan.</title>
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      <subject>
         <keyword> Religious experiences, Caste system, Racism</keyword>
      </subject>
      <description> This is an interview for the British Hindu Oral
         History Project.  My name is Surya Bansal and today&apos;s date is
         the 25th of April. </description>
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      <interviewdate>25th of April</interviewdate>
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      <format>Sound Cassette</format>
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      <language>English</language>
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      <textdesc>Oral Interview</textdesc>
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         <name>
            <firstname> Surya </firstname>
            <lastname> Bansal </lastname>
         </name>
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      <person>
         <id>084</id>
         <interviewee>
            <name>
               <firstname> Baldev </firstname>
               <lastname> Krishnan</lastname>
            </name>
         </interviewee>
         <gender>Male</gender>
         <agerange>
            <from>58 </from>
            <to> 60</to>
         </agerange>
         <age/>
         <birth>
            <birthdate/>
            <birthplace> Hera, Punjab	</birthplace>
         </birth>
         <residence>
            <address/>
            <city> Bradford</city>
            <state/>
            <country>U.K. </country>
         </residence>
         <education>
            <qualification/>
         </education>
         <occupation>Bus driver</occupation>
         <firstlang>EN</firstlang>
         <langknown>
            <language>Punjabi, Hindi, English</language>
         </langknown>
      </person>
      <text>
         <qaset>
            <question>First of all let I always go to the background.
               Where are your parents from?</question>
            <answer>From India.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Do you know whereabouts?</question>
            <answer>Punjab State.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Do you know what village or?</question>
            <answer>A village.  Village Hera.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  Were you born there?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  Do you still have relatives there?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Do you ever go back and see your relatives at all?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>When was the last time you&apos;ve been?</question>
            <answer>Last year.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Last year.  So what family members have you got
               left there?</question>
            <answer>My uncle, aunty, my cousins, cousin wife and his
               sons and all family.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  Did you go to school there?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>To what age?</question>
            <answer>Up to sixteen.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Sixteen and what happened after sixteen, did you?</question>
            <answer>After sixteen I have been to here in Bradford with
               my Dad.  And I found a job according to situation that
               time and at that time was 42 and half hour in a week and
               every man, woman and children was very hard working and,
               for forty-two and half I got 4 Pounds for a week wage and these
               days unbelievable things are like that.  It&apos;s matter of
               1963, that&apos;s the rate was you know.  When the hard worker
               were getting  7 - 8 Pounds the weekly rate you know, I was glad
               I got 4 Pounds; gross.  Not in my pocket.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So you said you came with your father.  Did just
               you and your father came over?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  And what was the reason for that?</question>
            <answer>The reason was, actually we were farmer there.  Farm
               is a, in England as you know, no dividing.  One son,
               eldest son is keeping in England farm.  But in India, if
               one farmer have the five sons and three daughters
               suppose, so eight family member is it you know.  Then it
               will divide into eight parts, you know.  When a farm will
               divide in to eight parts what left for each person?
               After one or two generation nothing left there.  It will
               be only for a few yards, each have the share.  That&apos;s
               where then, I can say that, in India Government should
               be, make it like that you know, limited farm you know, up
               to that one can&apos;t cut it more than that, you know.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Oh, I see, so it gets broken up in to lots.</question>
            <answer>Yeah.  So instead of cutting, cutting, cutting and
               dividing into yards few of equal shares of brothers and
               sisters, that was the big problem there.  If we lived
               there, it were not enough farm for us to add, we have the
               fifteen members there.  So we had to go to somewhere else
               to get the job and get the money and settle our life.
               That was the main reason.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay makes sense.  So how many, do you have any
               brothers or sisters?</question>
            <answer>I have two brothers and three sisters.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>And did they not come either then?</question>
            <answer>One sister in India and other sister and my other
               two brothers and two sister are here.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>And, so what was your father&apos;s name?</question>
            <answer>My father&apos;s name is Tirthram.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So you came over to look for a job and you came
               straight from India.</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So did your father get his, what they call it sort
               of, his passports?</question>
            <answer>He had the British passport, 1962 when he been to
               India and 1973, I got the permission from the High
               Commissioner in New Delhi to, I can go with my father to
               Britain and join with my father.  So I had been to my
               father in 1963 so.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So you were only sixteen, but can you remember the
               journey over and what time of the year was it when you
               came here?</question>
            <answer>It was a 10th of June, 1963.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So it wasn&apos;t too cold then?</question>
            <answer>It was very cold, Bradford.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Was it?</question>
            <answer>And the smoke was too much going through the chimney.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Oh yeah too much, yeah.</question>
            <answer>And lights were very small on the backside of the
               city, besides the stone was in the street backsides you
               know.  And the toilets was outside, I have to go four,
               five step down after ten yard to go to toilet.  And there
               were no water hot system.  Just put the Kitli on the
               cooker and make our hot water.  And we have no bathroom
               and that time people have no bathroom inside the house
               you see.  That changed in 1970, &apos;69-&apos;70.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>We got the grants and we got the partitions in the
               room and make the bathrooms, toilets, sink, all setting them.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay and what area did you stay in Bradford?</question>
            <answer>Mostly, I stayed in Bradford 3.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>What about when you first came over, because there
               couldn&apos;t be much of the Hindu community here at that
               time, so what was that like, you know?</question>
            <answer>Yeah, at that time, not matter of Hindu or Sikh or
               whoever we was, you know it was one thing in our mind,
               you know, I have the ability to work hard. My father, my parents told me you know, if
         you want to achieve something in the life, you will hard
         worker.  Either mail factory or anywhere, you must be honest or
         must be punctual, must be hard worker and must be loyal.  These
         loyalty bring me up.  My way of life is not shivering or like
         that, you know.  My way of life like a Military man.  What his
         duty, understand it and right time - right action.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>Sleeping time - sleep, wake time - waken up, going
               home, work time must go to work.  If I will tell you I am
               working in my job, thirty years on the job as a bus
               driver.  If you come to my house you won&apos;t get, in my
               house clock with alarm.  What time I am going to,
               separate times I am going to work, four o&apos;clock - five
               o&apos;clock, no need now to me somebody wake me up, my wife
               or alarm.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Is wife there?</question>
            <answer>My wife, my life punctual, make me like that, I
               always wake up three thirty - quarter to four, brush,
               toilet and one after other thing, bath taking then pray,
               then listen the television with those who are, picture
               hour and religious programs, who is head of our Hinduism,
               I will listen that.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>And you said you kind of got that from your
               father, I mean, your father was like that too, was he
               very hard working?</question>
            <answer>My father was a really hard worker.  He was working
               in a foundry, Birmingham.  And he was working in a Cross
               Flat, there was a mouldry job, you know.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Oh, yeah.</question>
            <answer>There they melt the iron and make the parts of the
               all, everything&apos;s you know.  It was not easy job and the
               job was too heavy really, really good muscles.  So he was
               doing that job and he told me, &quot;whatever you get the
               money, if you eat it I don&apos;t mind&quot;.  You will come back
               without, make that excuse &quot;I got headache, I can&apos;t do the
               job, you won&apos;t win my son&quot;.  So I got that idea from my
               father and that idea&apos;s make me loyalty, respectful person
               in the community after the long time.  I am working on,
               thirty years on the buses, &apos;60 working year.  And just
               day-before-yesterday, I talked to, I had an interview
               with my Managing Director on some matters for next
               course, you know.  And he was asking me few questions,
               you know and same like that.  I asked them, you know can
               you find, give me, in my record, ever sent, five minute
               late for my job and not loyalty and I am doing public
               behave, if I am not in my brain anything catching right
               thing, what time, what to say, what not to say to the
               right person, right time and how I can solve the problem
               then, then I will go get in argument with, with many
               passengers you know.  I am dealing with four - five
               hundred passengers every day.  So must we know the, how I
               should behave others and what kind I am meeting the
               peoples.  As you know on the buses, there is no top
               peoples coming on the buses, they have the cars and they
               have many other facility, only middle class peoples and
               little bit low class people are coming on the buses,
               getting on the buses, you know through there income.  So
               we have to accept that they, you know we can&apos;t accept
               that they will speak us as a high level very loyal
               person, you know.  So I am not expecting it.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>No.</question>
            <answer>And people are someone was asking me you are a mind
               reader.  I am not mind reader, through my thirty year
               experience; I know what they are expecting from me and
               what I can do, what I can give them or what I cannot
               give, honestly.  If some would tell me really, I have
               this problem this one, little money, short of money or
               whatever, then no problem we can sort the problem, no
               problem.  If somebody dishonest, doing the wrong things,
               attitude wrong, everything wrong, you know and looks his
               way of speaking wrong and everything wrong then with a
               sensible way what can we do?</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So do you think that, I mean specially in the
               early days, you have that sort of attitude when you first
               came here.  Do you think people were a lot more they&apos;d
               want you be more respectful to you because you were hard
               working or like that.  You think that was just?</question>
            <answer>That time after World War II up to 1980 - &apos;85,  &apos;45
               to&apos;85, 40 years every man, every woman, every child who
               ever worked 40 years, 1945 to 1985 in England, they have
               too much here in England, because they did the hard jobs,
               they developed the country too much, they have, I can too
               much share to develop this country.  Once develop of
               country, then easy to take it then further, then get the
               benefit of it.  Now we are getting the benefits of it,
               you know.  If I explained you one thing, you know when I
               have a child, you know in 1966 December, my first child
               you know and that time first child not getting any
               allowance, now my grandson is getting 5 Pounds, first child.
               So it&apos;s big different at that time and now, you know.
               And that time there were, no any as we are getting five
               day working and we have little income that we can have
               the compensation from the other side you know.  Too many
               loss in the favor of us, you know worker.  That time no
               any extra money.  You do work, hard work and go to, after
               5-6 days for the bathroom pay them five pence and he will
               fill the hot water in the bath for you and you relax in
               them and come back home you know.  This was our life, you
               know.  And some people were working 18 hour continuous
               you know night shift more than, Friday starting 6 o&apos;clock
               and Saturday finishing 12 o&apos;clock.  My many friends, one
               of them my father was also.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>It&apos;s hard work.</question>
            <answer>Very very hard work and not little hard worker.  I
               am still a hard worker.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>And so you know, you working these hours and
               staying, who you were staying with at that time?</question>
            <answer>I am staying with my son, my daughter-in-law, my
               wife, my one grandson and one granddaughter.  I have two
               house together with extension now and nice garden and
               front and back side.  I am living there really, I have
               some hobbies gardening and put the right tree and keep
               looking the people&apos;s garden where they have the nice
               plant, tree or how I can put that tree or plant there in
               my garden.  I got the idea from other gardens.  So I have
               hobbies some good one.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yes.  Just to go back a little bit was your dad,
               was your mother, or still in India at that time?</question>
            <answer>In 1963 my mother was still in India.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>And was your dad just paying for her.</question>
            <answer>Yeah.  My dad was paying them and my brothers and
               sisters were there and he had to look after them and
               whatever we saved then we were sending them back.  After
               few years they have been to here and then they joined
               with us.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Just a little bit on socializing, when you came
               here, because the community was so small, how did you
               find that, I mean what temple did you have at that time?</question>
            <answer>We have no temple that time, first we start the
               Sankirtana, do you know Sankirtan?  Sankirtan means there
               we sit together and chant God names and sing our, to know
               the commandment of the God.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>But it could be in people&apos;s houses and things like that?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.  In the house, you know.  Somebody have the
               back to back house in 1967.  Old back to back house and
               we put some picture there and, one of our teacher was,
               you know he was explaining on Bhagwat Gita, what is Lord
               Krishna saying and I was also little interested and then
               one day he was explaining to us from Gita about our
               caste, you know and his meaning was, &quot;God in every person
               and God make this earth and nobody up and down&quot; you know.
               If I am doing work as a bus driver, if I am a good driver
               no problem, I can&apos;t be Ph. D, everybody won&apos;t, cant, not
               have abilities to Ph. D or high qualifications you know.
               Wherever I am, I must be honest there I should know how
               to do the job and everything.  If I am even cleaning the
               footpath or road, anything and wherever I am doing the
               job, I should be perfect in them, so there is no problem.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So, would you say that your father, because there
               is this sort of things that our father kind of upheld
               those old beliefs of working hard and stuff, would you
               say he was a religious man, your father?</question>
            <answer>No, he was a responsible person in the family.
               Responsibility is the main thing, you know.  How
               responsible you are, and the how idea you have in your
               mind, you know.  Are you responsible for you wife, are
               you responsible for your parents, are you responsible for
               your nearest and dearest one!  That&apos;s individually every
               person.  If you are responsible, you will be punctual,
               you will be good; I am not a responsible anything, nobody
               can make me responsible.  My ideas through my parents,
               through my holy books, through the respectable person in
               the community, through our reading books, saints, good
               ideas, philosophy of God that can bring me high level of
               knowledge person.  And whatever I had in my mind is
               knowledge I&apos;ve got it; so that will work in my life.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>I will just, I didn&apos;t touch that before but do you
               find it difficult at that time to get more exotic food
               and also spices and also clothes and stuff like that like--?</question>
            <answer>Yeah, we have the problem in the starting, you know
               when I been to here, I face some problem.  So I start
               taking eggs and other things, you know and as my father
               information, &quot;Son, be strong man, if you won&apos;t be strong
               enough you can&apos;t work&quot;.  You wont be good and the
               respectful person in the community.  Our family will live
               in a poor, very poor stage and you can&apos;t be rich then.
               If you want to be rich, you must be hard worker and be
               honest and time will come after a few years, if your way
               of work is right and you know how to spend money, and
               where to spend money, where not to spend, where not to
               go, where to go, when to go, right time, right attitude,
               right action, if you have the knowledge nobody can stop
               you be rich by your idea, by your financial rich, nobody
               can stop it.  When the sun will come on the sky dark will
               go away, nobody can stop it.  Same thing is about
               honesty, loyalty and you.  If you are in your life any
               person doesn&apos;t matter in this world any person in this
               world, honest, hard worker, loyalty in them you are a
               pure, you will never be poor.  You will be rich.  By
               financial, by his ideas he will get the respect from
               other people, from those who are really good people, from
               them.  I am not talking about the evils people.  Evil
               people have no idea, they will respect the evil people,
               bad peoples.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Talking about evil people, did you ever experience
               any racism?</question>
            <answer>I have.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Where?</question>
            <answer>I am living in a Bradford, 1963 forty-one years,
               racism Bradford vandalism, I have seen two-three
               vandalism, they throw the petrol bomb to our temple.  I
               got the telephone from someone warning to our temple and
               they say, &quot;save your temple&quot;.  I explain to my society,
               my society say do not, they say it&apos;s only joke and
               somebody are lying, so they throw the bomb just we left
               the temple, petrol bomb and that were the only one
               community in the world those who are doing many just you
               know, wherever they are.  I am not against any individual
               person, I am individually the bad thing you know which
               are bad action law you know, throwing the petrol bomb to
               the normal people&apos;s those who are peacefully living here
               and nicely to live.  And one thing in my life, no one,
               English people hate with me or I&apos;ll find the racist, I
               found only that time when riots start here before, that
               time I feel because so many people burn shops and too
               much damage and millions pounds peoples they ready to one
               community everybody know in this Bradford. They done
               two-three time damage, million pounds damage and shops
               and only they slept the only one community that were the
               English people property and Hindu&apos;s property, they damage
               them, they did not damage any their own community, a
               single shop.  Then the other side of National Front have
               the ideas you know, for them to stop it, then the going
               and then they coming on the bus, then they feel I am one
               of them, but I am not one of them.  I will be pure, I
               will be honest, I will feel it, they are all my brothers
               and sisters.  I am more honest, more pure, I love the
               honest person, I not color war, no anything in my mind
               who he, I like every person in this world, God make every
               person, each and every person, God make this world and
               his Sun is giving light to every one, why I can, not
               listening to the God commandment you know, why I will
               follow to the evil&apos;s idea as you know, what they are
               doing I, it should not affect on my life actually.  I am
               so strongly opinious.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.   I am just kind of move on now to just your
               religious practices over the time.   Basically your
               religious practices today basically now you, in the
               temple also at home, so what&apos;s, do you do Puja in
               the morning, what&apos;s your normal sort of routine?</question>
            <answer>My Puja is a first start you know, when I leaving
               bed, I to pray to Earth, without that Earth I can live
               you know.  This one, give me shelter this Earth.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>Then Air, even God make this Earth, God make this
               Air for me, to run the function for my life everybody
               know.  If Air won&apos;t be pure oxygen in them, somebody put
               that too much petrol or anything, too much smoke or
               anything you know or any atom bomb or like that so we
               can&apos;t survive you know.   So we need to thank to God who
               make these things an thank to Air, pure we are getting
               and thank to our mother who give me, bring me on this
               Earth.  I thank to my father, I thank to my teacher who
               give me ideas, this one and thank to God and thank to
               whoever honest person in this world who believe in God to
               keep the commandment, any testament they keep it, any
               religious, I pray them, be honest, I am with them.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.</question>
            <answer>They are my nearest and dearest.  They are too close
               in my mind.  Dishonest my any nearest or nearest or he
               can&apos;t be come in my mind.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So do you find this stuff this associating with
               people in the temple and because they are all in the same
               sort of?</question>
            <answer>Yeah</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>And also I just want to ask you, do you have a
               family Guru at all?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>What is his name?</question>
            <answer>His name is Mridul Vyas.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>And how did you find out about him?</question>
            <answer>Actually 1967 he was in Bradford.  We was in temple
               you know, chanting God names and read the holy books you
               know.  Then he been to Bradford.  He was so good in
               explanation Ramayana, singing in Harmonium.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>So good his tunes and chant you know, poets you
               know, men are singing to us you know and explanation has
               too good you know, he had know the commandment of God.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>So I got idea from them and I thank you know and
               this is the right person who can Guru, guide in my life
               you know.  So I respect them and he given me Mantra for
               God you know.  God is in every person.  If you want to
               serve the God, must be honest with them, must serve them
               nicely, politely and honesty and loyalty.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Did you have any, ever have any Guru&apos;s visit your
               home at all?</question>
            <answer>Did I have the?</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Any other Guru&apos;s or Swami&apos;s ever visit your home
               at all?</question>
            <answer>Yeah they are many keep coming my house.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  Any in particular or just?</question>
            <answer>So many-many.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So many-many.</question>
            <answer>Many.  All are famous for me.  All equal famous.
               They are teaching everything same.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay we, some of these questions now there are a
               little bit broad but I am going to go with them.</question>
            <answer>Yeah.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Kind of what would you say that makes you Hindu?</question>
            <answer>Hindu means you know be vegetarian.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>Be honest, be loyalty, be punctual all the good
               things in you and be helpful for others those who need
               it.  Even blind person, even disabled person even any
               person in that world you know.  All over the world I keep
               knowledge in my mind you know, what, who our saint, where
               every religion in the world is doing the good thing.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>It say, every thing in my brain here.  If I see in
               the any part of the world anybody good thing they doing
               you know it is coming too near of me. Doesn&apos;t matter who
               Hindu or any one religion, any good person.  I believe
               it&apos;s you know.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah. Okay just do you believe in Karma?</question>
            <answer>Karma?</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah and also Reincarnation.</question>
            <answer>Yeah, I believe it Karma. Without Karma how we can
               improve our idea then we are animals you know, worst than
               animal.  Animal can do the damage to little one, we are
               we can, men can do too much damage you know.  If he start
               on the wrong way wrong path, evils idea you know.  They
               are doing it, too much harm to the they are taking the
               people&apos;s life and still they fill you know they are not
               taking the life of other people.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>Drugs and other things, you know and only they got a
               bad idea that&apos;s all, illegal things.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  What happens to you when you die?  That if
               you had a pious life and you have practiced your
               religious principles, what happens to you or what would
               you like to say happen to you in your next?</question>
            <answer>There are two situation you know.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>If I really good by my mind and God given the marks
               to me, suppose I am going to school teacher know after
               the exams how many, how you did the paper and how many
               marks you got it.  Same thing God is.  Whatever I did the
               action in my life with that action always helping me in
               the life also when it&apos;s going and after the life also, I
               will go in Paradise.  There are seven paradise one after
               other one better, better, better, better and better than,
               one and second better, third better, best one.  It&apos;s like
               that.  And one is Moksha and Moksha is called &apos;Mukti&apos; and
               Moksha is called the &apos;Nirvan Pada&apos;.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>That&apos;s a little one hard, hard is that one you have
               to be know God philosophy and the God commandment and be
               with them honesty not with the other people.  Doesn&apos;t
               matter whatever who your nearest or dearest doing you
               truly fear this world is like a dream as when dream is
               coming and our during night time and we feel somebody
               meeting me going separate and I am running, talking and
               same Bay house and all creation going like that you know
               and when I wake up through it I feel, oh that&apos;s not true.
               I did not carry that person why the police catching me,
               after I wake up you know out from the dream</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>So same thing this world as you know the philosophy
               of God you will feel the same thing.  This world is a
               dream and one side God said you have to keep the
               commandment other side God say must, must, know me.
               Without knowing me what is my Swarupa what I am Brahma,
               Param Brahma, if you want to know it, if you know it, I
               will explain you in a so good &quot;Soham Simati Dritiya
               Khanda Deep Sakha Soi Param Prachanda, Atman Anubhav Sukh
               Sav Prakasha Tab Bhav Mul Bhed Brahma Nasha.&quot;  &quot;Behi
               Brahma mein hu,&quot; Hindi--</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>I am telling you in a Hindi really too good you
               know, because I don&apos;t want to be little word to cut it
               you know, that&apos;s too good.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah sing.</question>
            <answer>&quot;Soham Simati Dritiya Khanda, Bohi Brahma mein hu
               aisi jo dharna hai, woh us jagti hui jyot ki tarah hai
               aur uske bina, atma gyan ke bina hum nirvan pad nahi paa
               sakte.&quot;  The way to dealing with the people&apos;s have to be
               deal with God, with God.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>Not with the my brother and sister, father and
               mother that&apos;s good idea.  But that&apos;s a second good, not
               the top good be top good if you want to be Nirvana, don&apos;t
               want to come on this earth, you want to meet with a God,
               no more birth, no more Karma.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.</question>
            <answer>If you want to be that one, Nirvanapada you to be on
               that level.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  This is a strange, a bit of a strange
               question but I would ask every one this one</question>
            <answer>Yeah.  You asking any question.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Have you ever, have you had any sort of spiritual
               experience ever or?</question>
            <answer>Spiritual?</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Spiritual? You know if you had to like a,
               experience with, a religious experiences at all.</question>
            <answer>Yeah. To good yes I have.  And that experience you
               know through the pictures, through my reading, through my
               practical life, if that helping me.  Which one is my
               ideas I way of my life living I am not expecting any
               bodies from somebody donate me or give me anything, I am
               praying to God, give my body good health and good ideas
               in them so all the time I will be happy.  I will be
               joyful for other people help.  God given me two hands I
               can work hard and one more to eat it, I can give ten
               people food, I am still at the age of 58-60 working
               regularly every week.  I proud I am not working only six
               day, other day I am working in our temple, I am working
               in my house, gardening other things, keep watching and
               keep telling my sons, grandsons, granddaughter, talk to
               them lovely and sit with them, enjoy with them and talk
               to them, you know really.  I am enjoying you know.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Do you think it&apos;s important to do charity work
               then?  You are saying that you do work inside the temple
               and stuff but do you think that&apos;s important?</question>
            <answer>Yes very important.  Very important for me.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>The next little  thing I am going to move on to is
               just basically for last for now is like Hinduism today
               basically obviously I gather from what you say you are
               more religious now than you were maybe when you were
               younger, the older you get the more important I guess.
               What about all the, what about the youth, what about
               Hindus the younger Hindus today would you say they are
               more or less?</question>
            <answer>Yes Hindu younger you know is same like me when I
               was young you know.  My family was just like picture you
               know family my grandfather was.  He was explaining me few
               things in Sanskrit you know, he can do the marriages and
               he can do the all through Mantras you know, everything
               which one needed ceremony you know.  On the birth child
               and when he die or when marriage or all fourteen our
               function you know which one need it in the life you know.
               Hindu have believe in forty and I do not taken it you
               know.  When I being to here you know I have that hair
               bent thing you know.  I, when I heard the Gita from our
               one of my teacher explanation then I have the little bit
               other ideas you know.  I think he is not explaining me
               the right Gita, so I must read myself.   So that thing
               bring me up you know to wake me up.  I was interested in
               them is he right master?</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Sorry.</question>
            <answer>Is he the right person who explaining meaning doing
               the meaning of Gita or am I right in my mind when I was
               at time 20 year old you know.  So that thing bring me up.
               So I keep listening them, keep listening them keep study,
               keep study up to today.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>So do you think that the youth have the same
               opportunities to do that, it is the younger, the younger?</question>
            <answer>Younger it&apos;s depend on your family you know.  Some
               if the parents have something it&apos;s already in your houses
               something you know.  Everybody in your house you know you
               can frame the meaning.  If parents don&apos;t know anything in
               the house it&apos;s hard for you too you know.  Any, anything
               in the parents, anything parents doing job or anything
               child can get that few percent automatically.  God have
               them in chains.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Sorry.  Do you think it&apos;s important for, do you
               think it is important to learn, for the younger Hindus to
               learn their mother&apos;s tongue?</question>
            <answer>It&apos;s depend on you know any person you know all
               language are quite good you know then no problem.
               Problem is you know and if you are English you know how
               many English people are going to be Hindu in this world,
               there are some you know, some are changing.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Couple of, there is couple of thousand.</question>
            <answer>Yeah few of them you know.  If you are good Hindu no
               problem in this world you know you are good.  If you are
               good Muslim, no problem in this world.  If you are a good
               Christian, Budh, Jain any religious if you are good no
               problem.  When I am bad Hindu name I am calling I am
               Hindu, good Hindu then the trouble start.  So be a honest
               with the commandment. You don&apos;t mix the commandment you
               know it&apos;s not like that.  Sun will go on the sky and the
               dark won&apos;t go and if the dark is not going sun is in the
               sky, something wrong there.  So believe these things you
               know.  God commandment always be pure, be perfect.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah you can&apos;t like picking shoes.</question>
            <answer>No, it&apos;s not like that.   Any religious they are
               everyone saying I know I am not only in Hinduism I have
               little study about other religious too little one
               knowledge.  But I believe where have they have the
               commandment, those who have the commandment ten testament
               or whoever left with war that&apos;s the only difference I
               notice through my knowledge.  Add ten good commandments
               have in the Christianity.  We are literate more, Hinduism
               that&apos;s the only ten plus as vegetarian and other things
               you know we have little bit more you know.  Only that&apos;s
               the differences I am knowledge, got the knowledge.  Other
               top ten are there in Hinduism, other religious same is
               also like that.  So million people are Christian, million
               people are Hindu, million people are Muslim you know.
               Why?  They are good you know what bad thing you are
               mixing any dirty thing in the water and can&apos;t see on
               anything in it.  So the same thing when we not keeping
               the God, God commandment honesty way understand them and
               doing the bad in the name of God, then God is not with
               us.  We can&apos;t make the God fool each and every person he
               knows what&apos;s way, which way we are feeling and what
               action we are going to do and what we will get the result
               of it.  Be honest, be pure, be loyal.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay this is about it.  Okay just quickly on the
               caste issue, do you think it&apos;s still applicable?</question>
            <answer>Yeah that&apos;s a good question really you ask me.  You
               know Hinduism there is a caste system, one is Brahman
               high levels, second is a Kshtriya fighter Army, third is
               farmer and businessmen, fourth is servant.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Is that Shudra?</question>
            <answer>Servant, servant, those are working under somebody
               right.  So every person have the not same ability through
               his brain you know.  Not say everybody can&apos;t very
               brilliant knowledge you know they are Ph D can do it,
               high degree.  So we believe it, people have five kinds
               level of knowledge you know and those who are very
               brilliant in knowledge here, they can do the Ph D high
               level get a doctor, engineer or master of any subject.
               No problem in their life.  They have good money and
               honesty kind, go work it you know no problem and second
               thing is we can, I have no too good brain second stage in
               I am good healthy and honest and I can work hard I can
               join the military, protect my country border and whatever
               my orders coming from behind you know I have to work it
               and get the money for that and fulfill our duty live
               better day right.  That&apos;s the second stage.  Third stage
               I have not that ability now suppose I have my own farm as
               I have in my India for there was problem for five six
               shares in them little one divided and we stay all there.
               So we too be poor stage level or to leave that place to
               find someone else job in this world or anywhere to go and
               to live better way.  So that&apos;s the third way to do the
               business farm doing or any job anything doing that.
               Farmer business giving the water to grow in the farm and
               sell them and get back the things and fulfill our desire,
               family&apos;s done third thing.  Fourth thing I have not that
               knowledge I have no farmer not that knowledge, then I
               have knowledge only, very little knowledge, little brain
               my working then I can brush, I can clean the buses, I can
               do any job little one and get the little money five six
               pound and honesty way work and I can fulfill my desires
               and live.  So every person has the separate ability and
               for can be possible all engineers, all PhD or all degree
               or all military men we got we need the military men to
               protect our country we need the police, we need the
               engineer, we need the doctors, we need the nurses, we
               need the somebody to clean footpath, road works, all jobs
               they will do.  So God make we need all kind peoples as
               function our body is doing everyone eyes is looking, ear
               are listening and tongue is speaking every function of
               our body separate job is doing.  Same thing God make this
               world you know.  King need the servant, servant need the
               king, rich man need the poor, poor need the rich man.
               Factory men need the worker and we need the factory.  The
               God make it like that not me and you make it.  Every see
               think it deeply we will know they will get through our
               job money.  If we won&apos;t go to work, the factory won&apos;t
               run.  They need us we need their help and God say and
               holy book saying after your father next is your whoever
               wherever you are working feel it, he is your father like
               uncle.  Respect them.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>I know like in Gita, Bhagwat Gita it talks quite a
               bit about importance of different, the different caste system.</question>
            <answer>No that was the, I am coming to you that point you
               know then I have same feeling, when I was twenty year old
               you know, I was in Brahman family, I were feeling, I am a
               highest level.  I am on the highest level because I am
               Brahman family born.  By my birth I am the highest
               person.  How can we, suppose I will put the Coat white
               one, with the doctor one and put everything on my ear you
               know.  And to check somebody when I have no qualification
               as a doctor.  I will harm my, harm the person and harm
               myself, unrespectable person I will go.  Same thing it
               God like that you know, I have no ability how I can go
               there picture, on the stage.  I will speak wrong word,
               wrong idea, wrong commandment, how long they will listen
               me?  They will kick him out.  I am not right person on
               their stage.  Be honest you should know what ability I
               have it, work about the truth.  So we, some people say
               it&apos;s a Shudra specially, that&apos;s bad word, tell me, Shudra
               means we call it Servant.  As I am a bus driver, work
               under somebody.  I am working there and with the
               respectable, they give me money every Thursday I am
               getting money and fulfill all my desires you know
               honesty, what is wrong with it.  But in my country some
               people think this way, they are Shudras means they are
               lowest caste.  It&apos;s not lowest caste.  How can we Ph D
               everybody tell me.  How can we very high rank military
               man.  How can we everybody good farmer.  You know there
               is no one, no farms everywhere you know.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Yeah.  Aren&apos;t we all servants anyway there because
               we take Tony Blair, he done Ph D and stuff but he still
               serves.  Is that?</question>
            <answer>Yeah.  He is doing service and on his level, he is
               doing the service on his level.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>But he still serves the people.  Is it?</question>
            <answer>Yeah he is serving the people.  Every, every person
               serving the people, even farmer, Military man, he have
               that responsibility, he have the what to do but not to do
               through their courses you know.  For duty are little
               different for the military man and the farmer and the
               servant you know.  There are some special duties on every
               level separately to one.  Some are equal everybody, some
               of them different.  So some of different high levels they
               are getting extra money for that, I am a doing little low
               level person, what I am that the honesty and the hard
               worker I am fulfill my desires.  I don&apos;t feel I am a
               anybody down.  Tony Blair is doing his right job you
               know, I  respect them.  He have the ability and people
               have PhD, my friend many.  I am sitting with PhD; I have
               very little qualification my country you know.  I have no
               qualification in English.  What I have qualification in
               my language very good.  Therefore I am in the temple when
               all PhD sitting here, specially sitting here, sometime I
               speak on the stage, they are listening me what I am
               telling them God commandment or whatever I am telling
               them they believe, I am telling them the right thing.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay, just two question that I said.  Just where
               do you see as home now?</question>
            <answer>Where is my home?</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Where do you see as your home?  Do you still has
               strong connection with in with your family in India or do
               you see, you got family here now.  Where is your home?</question>
            <answer>My home is this country now.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay.  How do you categorize yourself, would you say.</question>
            <answer>My actually my home is here, by my mind I am in the
               world of two.  My family is not for five members, my
               family millions peoples you know through my knowledge.
               So many are my uncles, so many my aunties, so many are
               my, my sons like that nephew then all my grandsons,
               granddaughters age are my grandson and granddaughter.  My
               feeling is this whole world is my family.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Okay, so it&apos;s finally just anything else, any
               final thought, anything else you would like to say?</question>
            <answer>I have many things to say you know.  As I mentioned
               you, you know what ability you have useful to you for
               others you know and how you can bring the loyalty in
               peoples and honest to make the peoples you will be the
               right first.  If I have suppose I hard work and I have
               some money and saved it, somebody come to me and request
               to me, give me money for loan or whatever you know, I can
               give them.  If I when then I have no money, no saved
               somebody ask me, even I want to give him I can&apos;t give.
               Simply that that&apos;s the true thing.  So same thing is God,
               if I say somebody to speak the truth I must speak the
               truth then it will effect, then it will work.  If I am
               liar not speaking the truth and telling on the stage
               always speak the truth, it won&apos;t work because truth is
               not in my life.  Be honest, be loyalty, be good, be pure.
               So many loyal things into your life should come and the
               people with respect you wherever you go in this world
               never mind in your house wherever you go people will
               respect you.  All community doesn&apos;t matter which, which
               color, which nationality they have it, he will respect
               you through your loyalty.  That&apos;s your individually life.
               Be good.</answer>
         </qaset>
         <qaset>
            <question>Thank you.</question>
         </qaset>
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