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[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1977]]
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">That is the system. Temple is meant for retired men. Brahmacārī, sannyāsī, vānaprastha.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation about Grhasthas -- July 17, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation about Grhasthas -- July 17, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Pagri, yes. To get a place there... Bombay is so important that if you want to get a place you have to pay no less, fifty thousand, lakh of rupees to stand. Then do business. Very important. Anything you do, you must have land first of all to stand. Otherwise what you'll do? To stand in Bombay you have to pay lakh of... Don't you see—we drive away the tenants—how much we recompense. We pay compensation.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. We have to pay a lot of money...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's it.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...so that they can pay for some other place.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's true. Nowadays it's very difficult.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is system in Bombay. Without paying, you cannot get even inch of land.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Trivikrama Mahārāja told me in Japan it's getting like that also, Tokyo.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Wherever there is scarcity, that is the system.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In America that is not there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: America, enough places.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They have paying a few months' rent, but not pagri.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There are so many houses. Why they should pay?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. That's true.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Multi-story building. Why people should pay? Now Bombay have got many multi-story building; therefore that demand is reduced. But still, you have to pay in important place, pagri or underhand. What is called?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bribe.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bribe is very bad word. "Under table." (chuckling)</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Under the table. Unofficial.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Mean I am paying on the table hundred rupees and under table two hundred rupees.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, I think you know everything spiritual and material.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm? So my fear is that after training our men so much, if he's lost, that's a great loss. Then future of society becomes very hopeless.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So the principle is that if a householder has outside employment and can pay, then he can live inside our temple buildings.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's nice. What is the wrong?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: At least for five or six years now the system has been that no man and woman should live together in the same building as where the Deity is.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the system. Temple is meant for retired men. Brahmacārī, sannyāsī, vānaprastha.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So then how we can let them live together, man and woman?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But if there is no alternative, what can be done?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hm. No, but there is alternative always. There are available rooms and apartments just adjoining the temples.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then it is all right, but he must be connected with temple.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. That's the principle. Under no circumstance should anybody be independent.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Upendra is here?</p>
<p>Upendra: Yes, Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you have corrected that paste?</p>
<p>Upendra: Yes, Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It has become soft?</p>
<p>Upendra: Yes, it's very soft and moist.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's good.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda? It seems like your voice has become a little congested tonight. Are you feeling congested? Your voice seems a little...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Congested, my vice?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Voice. In the nose. Congestion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: My nose? Not very much.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you can go.</p>
<p>Upendra: Prabhupādajī? I have one question since you are speaking about gṛhastha. If a brahmacārī decides to get married and then enters into married life, should he be encouraged to maintain that responsibility throughout his life?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, unless he can maintain family, why should he marry?</p>
<p>Upendra: Well, I'm specifically questioning the fact that some... Of course, our movement is young, but so many women, their husbands leave them, and they are so young and they're left. So these young women I'm thinking may become a disturbance in the future to the movement, because how a woman can remain unmarried for so many years? Her husband has left her after a few years of marriage. Generally...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What we can do?</p>
<p>Upendra: I'm saying the emphasis of marriage responsibility, I don't know if it's preached that strongly. Generally it's preached that one should not...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, if he marries, why he should not take responsibility of maintaining? Why he should marry if he has no power of maintaining?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What does that mean, "power of maintaining," Śrīla Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He must maintain his wife, children nicely. Otherwise why he should marry?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He shouldn't expect the temple to maintain him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is not possible.</p>
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