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| [[Category:Business]] | | [[Category:Our Business (Disciples of SP)]] |
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| [[Category:Contamination]] | | [[Category:Contamination]] |
| [[Category:If We (Disciples of SP)]] | | [[Category:If We (Disciples of SP)]] |
| [[Category:Chant Hare Krsna]] | | [[Category:Our Chanting Hare Krsna (Disciples of SP)]] |
| [[Category:There Is No Harm]] | | [[Category:There Is No Harm For Us (Disciples of SP)]] |
| [[Category:Where Is]] | | [[Category:Where Is]] |
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| [[Category:Questions Posed by Srila Prabhupada]] | | [[Category:Questions Posed by Srila Prabhupada]] |
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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> | | <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 class="heading">Well, business-minded is not bad, but contamination is bad. If I chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and do business, what is the harm? Where is wrong? | | <div class="heading">Well, business-minded is not bad, but contamination is bad. If I chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and do business, what is the harm? Where is wrong? |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 18, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 18, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That we won't have, though. The kind of businesses we do are not kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.44|BG 18.44]]). It's more or less businesses of incense business, jewelry business. We don't have extra milk products or grains, not very much.</p> | | |
| <p>Prabhupāda: So what is the harm if we do jewelry business?</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Providing the men do not become contaminated, then there's no harm.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: That is in his hand. Why he should be contaminated?</p>
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 18, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 18, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Shouldn't, but somehow our... You once said to me that "You Americans are already business-minded, so..."</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That we won't have, though. The kind of businesses we do are not ''kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyam ''([[vanisource:BG 18.44 (1972)|BG 18.44]]). It's more or less businesses of incense business, jewelry business. We don't have extra milk products or grains, not very much. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Well, business-minded is not bad, but contamination is bad.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: So what is the harm if we do jewelry business? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: If I chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and do business, what is the harm? Where is wrong?</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: See, the trouble is that when you do book distribution, it's easier to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Providing the men do not become contaminated, then there's no harm. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: That is for that purpose.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But when you sell jewelry, it's harder to remember Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: That is in his hand. Why he should be contaminated? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And our... We are not so advanced yet.</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Shouldn't, but somehow our . . . you once said to me that "You Americans are already business-minded, so . . ." |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That is the defect. Otherwise, if I am attracted, Hare Kṛṣṇa, for my livelihood I can do anything.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Anything, yes. I've seen in India, many of our members, they are able to do their pūjā in the morning with an undisturbed mind and then do business.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Well, business-minded is not bad, but contamination is bad. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. All Marwaris do that.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Be ruthless as anything.</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They are ruthless as anything during the day...</p>
| | Prabhupāda: If I chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and do business, what is the harm? Where is wrong? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And they're very humble...</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: See, the trouble is that when you do book distribution, it's easier to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...in their pūjā. But our men, if they are ruthless during the day...</p>
| | Prabhupāda: That is for that purpose. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: My father was doing business, and he was a great devotee.</p>
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| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And you were also doing business during, when you were...</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But when you sell jewelry, it's harder to remember Hare Kṛṣṇa. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, up to one o'clock, two o'clock, he was engaged only with his pūjā, my father. He was going late, at twelve o'clock, to bed. Then he was to... He used to rise little late, at about seven, eight. Then taking bath, sometimes purchasing. Then from ten o'clock to one o'clock he was engaged in pūjā. Then he would take his lunch and go to business. And in the business shop he was taking little rest for one hour. And he'd come from business at ten o'clock at night, and then again pūjā. Regularly. Actually his business was pūjā. For livelihood he was...</p>
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| <p>Hari-śauri: Just doing some business.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: We were sleeping, father was doing ārati—"ding ding ding ding, ding."</p>
| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And our . . . we are not so advanced yet. |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You heard the bell.</p>
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. That is the defect. Otherwise, if I am attracted Hare Kṛṣṇa, for my livelihood I can do anything. |
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| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Anything, yes. I've seen in India, many of our members, they are able to do their ''pūjā ''in the morning with an undisturbed mind and then do business. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. All Marwaris do that. |
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| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Be ruthless as anything. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Huh? |
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| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They are ruthless as anything during the day . . . |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
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| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . . and they're very humble . . . |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
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| | Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . . in their ''pūjā''. But our men, if they are ruthless during the day . . . |
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| | Prabhupāda: My father was doing business, and he was a great devotee. |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
