Our definition of God is, na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8). "He has nothing to do." This is God. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate: "He has nothing to do." He is simply enjoying, dancing with the gopis, that's all

Expressions researched:
"Our definition of God is, na tasya kāryaṁ kāraṇaṁ ca vidyate (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8)" |"He has nothing to do" |"This is God. Na tasya karyaṁ kāraṇaṁ ca vidyate" |"He has nothing to do" |"He is simply enjoying, dancing with the gopīs, that's all"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Our definition of God is, na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8). "He has nothing to do." This is God. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate: "He has nothing to do." He is simply enjoying, dancing with the gopis, that's all. Why He should go to work? Then what kind of God He is?

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Bahulāśva: Better to just chant and dance.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Bahulāśva: That is why they become mad, because they become envious that we are chanting and dancing; they are working very hard.

Kṛṣṇadāsa: They won't join.

Prabhupāda: Yes, they asked in Los Angeles that "How is that? You do not work, and you are living so comfortably?" They are envious. And the greatest economist, Professor Marshall, he has said that if man gets money, automatically he will not work. That is the basic prin. . . Therefore they are creating daily new invention.

Brahmānanda: For more working.

Prabhupāda: Hah. They are creating, yearly, motorcar to allure them to work and purchase. That is the economic. . . whole economic basis.

Dharmādhyakṣa: There's a case in Africa when the British took over Africa, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that they had to charge the natives a tax, let's say fifty dollars a year, and they would work. . . To make fifty dollars a year they would. . . (break) . . .transcending dualities.

Prabhupāda: First-class men. Our definition of God is, na tasya kāryaṁ kāraṇaṁ ca vidyate (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8). "He has nothing to do." This is God. Na tasya karyaṁ kāraṇaṁ ca vidyate: "He has nothing to do." He is simply enjoying, dancing with the gopīs, that's all. Why He should go to work? Then what kind of God He is? Na tasya karyaṁ kāraṇaṁ ca vidyate.

Devotee: But He also says in Gītā that He works too.

Prabhupāda: Just to teach these rascals to work. Because here, without working, you cannot get your food. Therefore laziness condemned here in this material world. And in the spiritual world the Supreme Person is the most lazy person. (laughter)

Bahulāśva: Just like yesterday you told the reporters. When they asked why such a big cart, so you told them that God should have a big cart.

Prabhupāda: And where is this car? When God assumes the universal form, where is the car? You have no such car. So this car is the smallest car of all. He has got. . . When He showed His viśva-rūpa to Arjuna, so for that viśva-rūpa where is the car? You cannot do.