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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Devotees of the Hare Krsna Movement]]
[[Category:Questions On... Economics - Wealth, Resources, Money, Business]]
[[Category:Questions On... Surrender, Obedience, Renunciation]]
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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="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Yes. We acquire them without any effort. We are not after these things. But Kṛṣṇa sends, we take—so many cars, so many watches, so many houses for propaganding Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Why shall I be greedy?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu|Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee (3): The devotee is peaceful, ever peaceful.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Karmī.... Just like, I began this Kṛṣṇa consciousness business with forty rupees, eh, in New York. Now, say within eight or ten years we have got forty crores. What is the karmī who started his business with forty rupees and within ten years, eight years, has got forty crores?</p>
<p>Devotee (3): Therefore the difference is the karmī's not successful.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: A bhakta is never unsuccessful.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Karmī.... Just like this house you have got. For a karmī to invest so much money, it will takes fifty years. We got this by donation. (laughter)</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Nobody's going to come up to a karmī and give him six hundred thousand.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So after $600,000 for a karmī it will take six hundred years. (laughter) For a bhakta somebody comes, "Take it." (laughter)</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Just like we all have so many watches. You'll notice everyone in our society has watches.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They haven't got, karmīs?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Some of them do.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the idea? You are asking question? Without have watches? We can live without watches? What is the idea?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Well they're..., usually they'll say we're.... If we are supposed to be spiritualists, then why do we have so many cars, why do we have so many watches, why do we have so many different things that they can see are there within the temple?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. We acquire them without any effort. We are not after these things. But Kṛṣṇa sends, we take—so many cars, so many watches, so many houses for propaganding Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Why shall I be greedy?</p>
<p>Devotee (1): Simply we are preaching and everything comes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everything necessary. Whatever is necessary will come. Kṛṣṇa has supplied. For us there is no such distinction as "material" and "spiritual." Because this material, so-called material, that is God's creation. When it is used for God, that is spiritual. Who has created this tree? You have created? Man has created this tree? Who has created?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So when it is used for Kṛṣṇa.... Just like these rascals, they do not know. They wanted to use it for themselves. It is ugly, no fruit. We see near Bombay, they have got so many coconuts. How beautiful it is with fruits and leaves. Because we use it for Kṛṣṇa. (indistinct) "Oh, they have got fear(?). The coconuts will fall down on your head." (everyone laughs) And they make it ugly. They kill children, but we, we're training children how they're offering obeisances. We do not kill. We beg them Kṛṣṇa conscious. So our activity all spiritual. (break) ...afraid of population. We say "Create any number of population, but make them Kṛṣṇa conscious." That is our restriction, that if you cannot make your children Kṛṣṇa conscious, then don't beget. And if you can do that, then hundred children can be got. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. This is our.... We say that if you cannot beget Kṛṣṇa conscious child, don't become father and mo.... And if you can produce Kṛṣṇa conscious children, then become father and mother hundreds of children.</p>
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