Guest (3): And if everybody became Kṛṣṇa conscious?
Prabhupāda: Then everybody's becoming liberated. Where is the harm?
Guest (1): Does he mean he has to . . .?
Prabhupāda: Why to lament? "Oh, everyone is becoming good men. Nobody's coming in the prison." It is to be lamented? That nobody's coming in the prison house, it is very good news. But that will not take place.
Guest (3): Should it affect the normal duties?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Guest (3): Should it affect the normal duties?
Prabhupāda: Real duty is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is normal duty. All, all other duties are abnormal duties, crazy duties. Just like pāgala, they're all crazy. There is a . . .
- piśācī pāile yena mati-cchanna haya
- māyā-grasta jīvera se bhāva udaya
- (Prema-vivarta 1)
Anyone who's under the clutches of māyā, or madness, what is the value of his duty? Śrama eva hi kevalam. He's simply spoiling his time. That is stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
- dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ
- viṣvaksena kathāsu yaḥ
- notpādayed ratiṁ yadi
- śrama eva hi kevalam
- (SB 1.2.8)
Just like you have come here, a little tendency for hearing about Kṛṣṇa. Your life is succ . . . on the path of success. And there are other, millions, they're not interested. So for them, the śāstra says: "They're simply working like cats and dogs." Just like dogs sometimes goes very fast this way, that way, that way; they're passing with motorcar, this way, "onh, onh, onh, onh, onh, onh." They're simply spoiling time. In America I have seen, always, "sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh." Here also.