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<div class="heading">Karma means fruitive work. Just like you are laboring for some wages. You get your wages. Similarly, this material world our work is rewarded. Good work is rewarded with good benefit and bad work is punished. This is the law of karma.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Radio Interview -- March 12, 1968, San Francisco|Radio Interview -- March 12, 1968, San Francisco]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: We don't disagree with the teachings of Lord Jesus Christ because he's speaking also the same thing which we are also speaking, about the science of God.</p>
<p>Interviewer: But she, I think she's saying, couldn't you just have taken the teachings of Jesus Christ as your religion?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But there is already adjustment...</p>
<p>Caller: (breaking in) No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that I believe that the Swami and many others who practice meditation and study the Gītā are really dealing with the same premise, the first cause, that Jesus spoke of.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Certainly.</p>
<p>Caller: Right?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, certainly.</p>
<p>Caller: Yes, that's what I wanted to know. I think there is a comparison, not between organized religion as such, but just getting down to the bare facts of what Jesus spoke about. I think there's a similarity.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is similarity, but one thing is, just like mathematics taught in the lower class. Two plus two equal to four is equally applicable in higher mathematics, two plus two equal to four. In higher mathematics it does not become two plus two equal to five. Similarly, the teachings of Bible or teachings of Bhagavad-gītā are the same, the same "two plus two."</p>
<p>Caller: Right, right...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But in the Bhagavad-gītā, it may be taken as higher mathematics. That's all.</p>
<p>Caller: You know, may I ask you one thing, I read some parts of the Bhagavad-gītā is it? And it said that knowledge is enveloped in ignorance, hence all men are deluded.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Caller: And I thought that was a profound...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Real, our real knowledge is covered by delusion.</p>
<p>Caller: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, the real knowledge is that I am spirit.</p>
<p>Caller: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But we are identifying ourself with this body. Therefore we are covered in our knowledge, actual knowledge.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Thank you caller, very much. Bye bye. Twelve minutes before four on KGO. And, caller, you're on the air with the Swami on KGO.</p>
<p>Caller: Yes, hello Swami. I would like to know how you get your money to make all your trips to India and New York and Mexico. Who provides you with money?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I was provided free passage in a shipping company.</p>
<p>Caller: You was what?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Free passage.</p>
<p>Caller: Free passage. Who pays for that free passage?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, free passage, there was no question of payment. The shipping company carried me free.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Shipping company carried him free.</p>
<p>Caller: The shipping company carried you free. Who buys your food for you?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: When I came, I came with some introduction letter. So my guests, they provided me.</p>
<p>Caller: Your guests provide you. In other words, you're a free-loader.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Caller: Why do you set up your church into an area like the Haight-Ashbury? Your so-called temple?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Our so-called temple?</p>
<p>Caller: Your so-called temple. Why do you set up a place like that in the Haight-Ashbury?</p>
<p>Interviewer: I'll rephrase it. I'm going to punch her out. Why is your church located in the area of the hippies?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is not for particularly selected the hippies' quarter, but the boys they found a cheaper place in that quarter. Therefore they occupied that place.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Cheapest place you could find.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Because we are not very rich institution. So we found it cheaper. So we selected it. It is not for the reason that because it is hippie quarter, therefore we selected it. No.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Actually, most hippies couldn't join your religion because they take drugs...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, we are completely different from the hippies, because hippies they are addicted to sex and intoxication, and these things are completely forbidden in our temple.</p>
<p>Interviewer: You do perform wedding ceremonies?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Interviewer: What is your wedding ceremony like?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The same chanting, Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Is it considered a legal wedding ceremony in this country?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, our society is incorporated under the religious act of New York state.</p>
<p>Interviewer: All right, caller, you're on the air on KGO with the Swami.</p>
<p>Caller: I'd like to tell your guest that the other day I received a beautiful letter from the Boston āśrama from Miss Prudence Farrow, Miss Mia Farrow's sister... Are you listening?</p>
<p>Interviewer: Yeah, you got a letter from Mia Farrow's...</p>
<p>Caller: No, her sister, yes, Prudence, from this gentleman's Boston āśrama.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Interviewer: No, it's some other group in Boston, she doesn't belong to this Swami's group.</p>
<p>Caller: Okay, okay.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Mia Farrow's sister?</p>
<p>Devotee: He's confusing us with Maharishi.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Yeah, okay. We'll be back in a minute. (break) Could we hear the chant maybe with everybody here? Is it possible? Can we get some microphones over there? You didn't bring what?</p>
<p>Devotee: We can use our hands.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Get everybody on the mike. Okay. (Prabhupāda and devotees all chant in unison, clapping hands, for a few minutes) (Prema-dhvani by Prabhupāda)</p>
<p>Interviewer: That is the opening of your ceremony?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is, at the end we...</p>
<p>Interviewer: At the end.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, thanks(?) to the devotees.</p>
<p>Interviewer: All right, thank you. Caller, you're on the air with the Swami on KGO. </p>
<p>Caller (woman): Oh, hi. Is this on? I just wanted to ask to Swami where karma enters in as far as his teachings are concerned and also whether his concept of God is that of a being that is good and so reflected through healings?</p>
<p>Interviewer: Okay. Karma, is this a part of your religion?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, karma. Karma means work, fruitive work. As you work, as you sow...</p>
<p>Caller: I'll take my answer on the air please, okay?</p>
<p>Interviewer: Go ahead, Swami. She's just going to listen to your answer on the radio. Go ahead with your description of karma.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Karma means fruitive work. Just like you are laboring for some wages. You get your wages. Similarly, this material world our work is rewarded. Good work is rewarded with good benefit and bad work is punished. This is the law of karma.</p>
<p>Interviewer: And the other question is "Do you feel God is good?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Interviewer: We are out of time, we want to thank you very much for...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God is good, yes, certainly. (devotees laugh)</p>
<p>Interviewer: ...for all of you here. And your local temple is at 518 Frederick here in San Francisco. Should I give the phone number in case people want information?</p>
<p>Guru dāsa: All right.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Phone number is 564-6670. Oh, you changed it? What is it now?</p>
<p>Guru dāsa: 731-9671. (end)</p>
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