At least to my recollection, this was the verse Srila Prabhupada quoted the most in 1966 and 1967. It was Srimad Bhagavatam 10.84.13: “yasyatma- buddhi kuape tri-dhatuke, sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih, yat- tirtha-buddhih salile na karhicij, janesv abhijnesu sa eva go-kharah TRANSLATION: One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus, bile and air, who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own, who thinks an earthen image or the land of his birth is worshipable, or who sees a place of pilgrimage as merely the water there, but who never identifies himself with, feels kinship with, worships or even visits those who are wise in spiritual truth, such a person is no better than a cow or an ass.” The part that got me was identifying with the land of birth and thinking that land is worshipable. Isn’t that what nationalism is all about? Isn’t that why people are keen to fight wars and die for their country? Isn’t it absurd? Indigenous People’s Conferences take place in different parts of the world. But are there any indigenous peoples? Don’t most anthropologists think that there’s an earlier race to every race’s claim that THEY [emphasis mine] are the original race? Does America belong to the native Americans, are the Japanese the original race of their islands, are the Aboriginals and Fijians the original peoples of their countries?