Brahmacari's business
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I found that our devotees who engage in business, they become a little spiritually weakened because we're not that advanced yet.
Prabhupāda: No, cent percent engagement in, that is hamper. There is no doubt. But to do business as a householder is not bad.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And practically, the position that our society is coming into now, I think it's actually... We should do it, because it will give our society a more balanced appearance. Otherwise they think everyone is beggar. But at least if they see that the brahmacārīs' business is begging...
Prabhupāda: Just like this Gauḍīya Maṭha has become. They have no other way of income except begging in different way. Now they have taken to this business, parikrama. They earn something, lump sum, by calling men to parikrama, and they pay, say, two hundred rupees. Out of, a hundred rupees they save, minimum, and that is their whole year's livelihood.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That is not a good business.
Prabhupāda: They are... They have come because they have no books.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: One very good business that we are developing in New York is prasādam.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That is a respectable business for the Americans.
Prabhupāda: Yes.Correspondence
1975 Correspondence
- ata sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih
- sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah
- (Padma Purāṇa) [Brs. 1.2.234]
Page Title: | Brahmacari's business |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
Created: | 17 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=1, Let=1 |
No. of Quotes: | 4 |