- [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.”
Pabhupada’s First Visit to Australia — Sydney, 1971
Initiations — Melbourne, 1974