Prabhupada 0214 - This Movement Can be Pushed on Vigorously So Long we are Devotees
Room Conversation 1 -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.
Prabhupāda: In India we have been offered so many land. But we have no men to manage.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: I also got a letter from Manipur, that Life Member, Kulavida Singh, he was concerned that the young people are now giving up the religious thought, so he wanted to establish some sort of school...
Prabhupāda: That (indistinct) is made by Vivekananda, yato mata tato patha, (?) very bad.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yeah. So as soon as... They wanted to start an ISKCON branch, and he was a...
Prabhupāda: I think it will not be difficult. Manipur is...
Svarūpa Dāmodara: It will be very easy, because...
Prabhupāda: ...Vaiṣṇava. So if they understand, that will be very nice.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: All the, even the government participates so they wrote me a letter saying that they can give us nice land, plot, and...
Prabhupāda: Oh yes. Now that Govindajī's temple?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Govindajī's temple is taken over by the government, so I talked to, I wrote a letter...
Prabhupāda: Government, they cannot manage.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are not managing properly.
Prabhupāda: They cannot. As soon as anything goes to state especially in India, goes to the government track(?), it is spoiled. Government means all thieves and rogues. How they'll manage? They'll simply swallow whatever they get. Government means... They cannot manage, they are not devotees. It should be in the hands of the devotees. So (indistinct), the paid man, they want some money, that's all. How they can manage temple? It is impossible.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: It becomes a political problem.
Prabhupāda: That's all. Eh?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: It becomes involved in politics. So that... Nothing to do with the worship.
Prabhupāda: The government should give to the hands of the devotee, we are recognized devotees, ISKCON. If they want, really management. We are managing, so many centers, on account of devotees. It is not possible to manage all these things by paid men. It is not possible.
Devotee (2): No.
Prabhupāda: They'll never... They'll not... This movement can be pushed on vigorously so long we are devotees, otherwise it will be finished. It cannot be conducted by any outsiders. No. Only the devotees. That is the secret.
Devotee (2): You cannot pay a devotee.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Devotee (2): You cannot buy a devotee.
Prabhupāda: That is not possible.
Devotee (2): You can buy someone to sweep the floor, but you cannot buy a preacher.
Prabhupāda: No, that is not possible. So so long we remain devotees, our movement will go, without any check.
Devotee (2): Devotees should take over the world.
Prabhupāda: Yeah, that is... That is good for the world.
Devotee (2): Yes.
Prabhupāda: If devotees take up the whole world for management, then everyone will be happy. It is no doubt it. Kṛṣṇa wants that. He wanted the Pāṇḍavas should be in charge of the government. Therefore He took part in the fighting. "Yes, you should be the... All the Kauravas should be killed, and Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira installed." That is the dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya. Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām (BG 4.8). He wants everything goes very smoothly and people become God conscious. So their life be successful. That is Kṛṣṇa's plan. That, "These rascal misleading and therefore... the (indistinct) the human life has been spoiled." Therefore I was talking about the "What is the meaning of the independence, (indistinct)?" ? The life is spoiled. And they will spoil their life and become next life a dog, and this big, big building, with stair, that's all. What the big buildings will do benefit to these people who is going to be a dog next life? Taking as a theory, that those who have constructed this big, big building and next life they're going to be a dog.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But they don't know that next life they're going to be a dog.
Prabhupāda: That is the difficulty. They do not know it. Therefore māyā.