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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1974]]
[[Category:Questions On... Occupation, Work, Duty]]
[[Category:Questions On... Process of Krsna Consciousness - Bhakti-yoga]]
[[Category:Questions On... Devotees of the Hare Krsna Movement]]
[[Category:Questions From... Academics]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithRichardWebsterchairmanSocietaFilosoficaItalianaMay241974Rome_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="83" link="Room Conversation with Richard Webster, chairman, Societa Filosofica Italiana -- May 24, 1974, Rome" link_text="Room Conversation with Richard Webster, chairman, Societa Filosofica Italiana -- May 24, 1974, Rome">
<div class="heading">No. Our recommendation is that whatever position you are, you can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. So even the workers in the factory, they can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. What is the difficulty? Even in factory, they take some leisure hours.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Richard Webster, chairman, Societa Filosofica Italiana -- May 24, 1974, Rome|Room Conversation with Richard Webster, chairman, Societa Filosofica Italiana -- May 24, 1974, Rome]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Richard Webster: Is it wrong to kill, to eat fish?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You cannot eat anything, even grass, without the sanction of God, what to speak of fish and others. You cannot eat even a piece of grass. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ yat kiñca jagatyāṁ jagat, tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā ([[Vanisource:ISO 1|ISO 1]]). Everything belongs to God. You can simply enjoy after being sanctioned by God. Otherwise not. This is real philosophy. Everything belongs... Just like in this room, it is supposed that everything belongs to me. Even my students, they ask, "May I take this?" They have got right to take, but still, they ask. Similarly, you cannot touch anything—everything belongs to God—without His sanction. This is God consciousness.</p>
<p>Richard Webster: Yes, well, I wholly agree with that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You cannot do anything...</p>
<p>Richard Webster: I entirely agree with that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...whimsically. It is not possible. Tena eva sa ucyate. If anyone does whimsically, then he becomes immediately thief. So you are a big philosopher. Kindly you spread...</p>
<p>Richard Webster: Very small philosopher.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, that's all right. Anyway, if you spread this God consciousness, this knowledge of God consciousness, philosophy of God consciousness...</p>
<p>Richard Webster: Yes, well, I'm going to write an article on that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dhanañjaya: Mr. Webster has your Bhagavad-gītā, and reads it very intently. And a few days ago he came back for another copy which he recommended to his friends.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's nice. You kindly try to spread. Everything, whatever we speak, our philosophy, this is based on this Bhagavad-gītā. That's all.</p>
<p>Richard Webster: It's very difficult when you're talking to Europeans. I mean...</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: But here we're not American or European.</p>
<p>Richard Webster: Yes, but I mean in the West it's a very different kind of difficulty...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everywhere it is difficult because people have become godless. Still, we have to try our best. The task is difficult, undoubtedly. It is very difficult task, to bring back people to God consciousness. But still we have to do it to satisfy God. He wants it.</p>
<p>Richard Webster: Well, I'm so very glad. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Richard Webster: Hare Kṛṣṇa. I'll see you tomorrow.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: During your conversation with this gentleman, you mentioned that there was nowhere any sanction by God for industry or business. So does that mean that these workers in factories and industries, to take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness they could not go on with their work?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Our recommendation is that whatever position you are, you can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. So even the workers in the factory, they can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. What is the difficulty? Even in factory, they take some leisure hours. So why not sit down for five minutes, ten minutes, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa? Where is the difficulty? Apart from the work they are doing, we are recommending, "Whatever is done is done. You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Then everything will be all right." Where is the wrong?</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: But eventually it's understood they must stop their industry.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is no question of stopping. If that is their livelihood, how they can stop it? That is not possible. But they can add this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra chanting. Then things will be adjusted. It is not possible to stop different methods of livelihood. That is not possible. If one can stop, it is well and good, but even he does not stop, he can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: But ultimately isn't our idea that the city complexes shouldn't remain, that things should become more spread out to farm and rural areas?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, naturally. If this man is fed up with this industry, he can go back to village and produce his own food. But he is attached to this industrial activity because he is thinking that "We are getting more money for wine and woman and meat. Let me enjoy." That is the perfect, imp... But if he chants Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, his consciousness will be purified and he will be made not interested this kind of work. He will go back to village and produce food. This is French?</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: No. It is new, 62 the new American. (BTG?)</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: This was your idea, to put the temple buildings on the magazine. Jayādvaita wrote me about that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Very good picture, encouraging, that so many devotees in one center. It is very much pleasing to me. I started single-handed.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: 1944.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, no, not '44, '66. '44, of course, that was idea, plans, Back to Godhead started, '44.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Looks like it will be heavy competition for the next French issue. Looks like strong competition for the next French issue.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. (chuckles) Very good. The pictures are very nice.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: That was in Watford.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is... Every time it is improving. That is Kṛṣṇa's grace.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: I think they are getting some ideas from our French magazine. (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You are now born. You are not mature to take ideas from you. (laughter) (end)</p>
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