Indian boy: Is it possible that I live on my own and still be a devotee?
Prabhupāda: That will take long time. That, also, if you follow the regulative principles... It is difficult, little. But easier method is to live with the devotees because the situation and atmosphere in your home is different from devotion. So it is not very helpful. You have got other members in the family?
Indian boy: Yes, there is...
Prabhupāda: So if you want to do something, they may not like it. So that is impediment. But if you live with the devotees, then you learn quickly the art. You are Indian?
Indian boy: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Wherefrom you are coming?
Indian boy: I was born in New Delhi.
Prabhupāda: Oh. How you came here?
Indian boy: Well, my parents moved to Fiji Islands, and I was with them. And then we all came to Australia.
Prabhupāda: She is also Indian?
Indian boy: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Wherefrom you are?
Indian girl: My parents were born in India and I was brought up in Fiji.
Prabhupāda: Now they are in Fiji?
Indian girl: No.
Prabhupāda: Where?
Indian girl: My mother's in Australia and my father's in Fiji.
Prabhupāda: Oh. So where are your parents? Where they are, your parents?
Indian girl: They are separated.
Paramahaṁsa: She says they're separated. One lives in Sydney and one lives in Fiji.
Prabhupāda: In Fiji there are many Indians.
Indian boy: Yes, there are.
Prabhupāda: The language is in Hindi? Fiji?
Indian boy: Indians speak Hindi, Fijians they speak Fijian.
Prabhupāda: Fijians they are Europeans? No.
Paramahaṁsa: No.
Prabhupāda: They are natives.
Indian boy: Natives.
Prabhupāda: They are civilized? No.
Indian boy: I suppose they are. (laughs) Many of them. Those who live a long time near Lautoka.
Paramahaṁsa: He says those who live in the cities, they are civilized. But others, they live in the villages, not very civilized. You have any other question?
Indian boy: No.
Prabhupāda: They have questions? No. (pause) You have got desire to become a devotee?
Indian boy: Pardon?
Prabhupāda: You have a desire to become devotee?
Indian boy: Yes, I have.
Prabhupāda: So then where is your desire, fulfill it. What you are doing here?
Indian boy: Actually, I've got three friends from work in Sydney, and we started traveling around the country, and we ended up in Perth with no money. So we are here from last four months trying to get a job and save some money and go back to Sydney.
Prabhupāda: So not getting job?
Indian boy: Jobs are very scarce in Perth. We've been trying very hard, but so far, it's no go.
Prabhupāda: So here we have no arrangement. Huh?
Śrutakīrti: No. Here there's no arrangement. In Sydney or Melbourne there would be some facility.
Prabhupāda: New Delhi you were born? How long you have come?
Indian boy: I was just nine months old when we left Delhi.
Prabhupāda: So Australia, they are inviting people to come here for working, but how is that? They do not get job?
Paramahaṁsa: They are not in control. There is a jobless rate, unemployment. They call it unemployment. It goes out of control. Sometimes people lose their jobs, and they can't find a job. But the government is not able to control the economy very well. All over the world this happens. So sometimes people try to get a job and they can't get the job.
Prabhupāda: There is enough jobs if the government arranges to engage them in growing food. But there is no such arrangement.
Paramahaṁsa: No. There is so much land in Australia.
Prabhupāda: The government should have some arrangement for engaging in working the field. (end)
Paramahaṁsa: Shall I give them some prasādam Śrīla Prabhupāda?