# Arriving in Melbourne, 1974 **Location:** Melbourne (1974) **Duration:** 8:24 <div class="video-container" style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmZ5wVHTDD8" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; pointer-events: auto; z-index: 10;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmZ5wVHTDD8) --- ## Transcript **[4:11]** ...special servant of God. **[4:13]** I am always servant of God, it is for you to recognize, that's all. **[4:20]** I am always servant of God, but it is for you to recognize. **[4:24]** Have you any idea of how much money the sect makes every year? **[4:30]** We can spend all of the money of the world. **[4:34]** Unfortunately you do not give us the money. **[4:38]** Well how do you spend it your Grace? **[4:40]** We are spending at least, at the present moment, eight hundred thousand dollars per month. **[4:47]** On what your Grace? **[4:49]** On this propaganda all over the world. **[4:52]** And we are selling our books not less than forty thousand dollars per month. **[15:08]** Do you like to work? **[15:08]** Yes. What is that? **[15:08]** She wants to know if we like to work. **[15:08]** We are working more than you. Twenty-four hours in the old age, I am traveling all over the world. **[15:08]** But don't you get a lot of your money from begging? **[15:08]** No, no, first of all you see working, you cannot work more than us. **[15:08]** Because I am an old man of seventy-nine years old and I am traveling always, all over the world, twice, thrice in a year. **[15:08]** You cannot work so much at least. **[15:08]** Just one more question please. **[15:08]** Your Grace, your religion is a very ascetic one, will you be living ascetically in Melbourne? **[15:08]** We are told that you will be taken away in a roles Royce. **[15:08]** Our religion does not say asceticism. Our religion teaches to love God. **[15:08]** Your can love God in your this dress, there is no harm. **[15:08]** But it is a self-denying religion, isn't it? **[15:08]** No, not self-denying, we are using everything, why self-denying? **[15:08]** We simply use whatever is absolutely necessary, that's all. **[15:08]** But how do you justify trappings like a Roles Royce and a very expensive house to live in? **[15:08]** No. We don't want Roles. We can walk. **[15:08]** Wouldn't it be better if you were traveling in a much smaller car, less pretentious?\ **[15:08]** Why, why? If you give me a Roles Royce to travel, why should I refuse? **[15:08]** It is my favor on you. I accept it. **[15:08]** Your Grace, would you tell us briefly how you founded the "Hare Krishna" in America? **[15:08]** Well, at least now whole world is chanting Hare Krishna, wherever you go they chant "Hare Krishna."