Ambarīṣa: And all service is the same?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Ambarīṣa: All service is the same?
Devotee (1): No. He says, "All service is the same."
Prabhupāda: How can it be? All service is the same? Do you think...
Ambarīṣa: Everybody serves in their own way, but it's all...
Prabhupāda: That is.... Unless you come to the service of God, it is wrong.
Devotee (2): I think he's asking, "But if it is service to God, then in God's eyes, all service to Him."
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter: Right.
Prabhupāda: Yes. God, service to God means, just like you put foodstuff in the stomach. Then the service, supplying energy, is distributed automatically. The eyes get service, the ears get service, the hands get service, legs get service, everything. But if you put foodstuff in the eyes, instead of giving service, you make it blind. If you put foodstuff in the ear, instead of hearing, it is blocked. Then that is ignorance. You do not know where to give service. The knowledge, God consciousness, means to know where to give service, so that the service will be automatically distributed. You pour water on the root of the tree and the energy will be distributed to the trunk, to the branches, to the twigs, to the leaves, to the flowers, everyone. We are missing their point. This is scientific,
- yathā taror mūla-niṣecanena
- tṛpyanti tat-skandha-bhujopaśākhāḥ
- prāṇopahārāc ca yathendriyāṇāṁ
- tathaiva sarvārhaṇam acyutejyā
- (SB 4.31.14)
So instead of giving service in so many ways—social, political, philosophical, cultural, this way, that way—if you simply learn how to serve God, then everything will be done. So that is our philosophy, and we are laboring for this purpose, that you understand God and give service to Him, then the whole society will be perfect, peaceful.
Reporter: I have no more questions.
Rāmeśvara: No questions about this assignment.
Devotee (1): You asked earlier about our program for educating society, are you still interested in this?
Prabhupāda: This education is all explained.
Devotee (2): I think he was interested also techniques by which we go about educating society. We have some techniques which...
Prabhupāda: Technical knowledge is not education.
Devotee (2): No, but I mean, as far as our books are.... We have our techniques for educating society.
Prabhupāda: Oh!
Rāmeśvara: Our program is to distribute the books of the Vedas with our spiritual master's philosophical commentaries. We already discussed a little bit before we came.
Prabhupāda: And all this subject matter, everything, sixty-two books already.
Rāmeśvara: Thank you very much, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Devotee (2): Jaya!
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. (end)