http://protectacow.typepad.com/Prabhupada:people are engaged unnecessarily to work very hard day and night, the capitalist, the worker. Big, big factory, iron factory, in so many factories, unnecessarily. So Prahlada Maharaja was concerned. He was living, his father was a demon, in the demonic state. So this is natural. If one saintly person do not be disturbed by people’s unhappiness, he is not saintly person. He is not saintly person. If he is simply satisfied that “I have got a temple, I am getting good income, let me eat and sleep.” My Guru Maharaja condemned this process. He said that to earn livelihood by showing some temple and collecting money and eat and sleep, better to become a sweeper in the street and earn his livelihood instead of earning livelihood in this so-called spiritual way. So practically all over the world a class of men, a priestly class of men, they have made it a means of earning livelihood, temple achar(?), taking money from people and enjoying, and then become drunkard. In your country, five thousand drunkard priests were consolidated in a hospital for treatment. They’re getting money. So there is possibility, we are opening temples, public is contributing. But if we become easy-goer, “Now money is coming, let us eat sumptuously and eat, eat and sleep, and if possible drink also.” But, of course, we are restricting. But naturally when one man becomes idle, idle brain is the devil’s workshop. So if he can get… Just like rich man’s son, they become. Everyone has got experience in every country. When he has no difficulty to get money, then what he will do? He will simply drink or invent some means of intoxication, naked dance. So they became very much perturbed. Venasyaveksya durvrttasya vicestitam, vimrsya loka-vyasanam krpaya ucuh sma… Krpaya, they were very much compassionate. They cannot see. Para-duhkha-duhkhi. Therefore, Vaisnava is always unhappy by seeing other’s unhappiness. They know how they are going to . Just like any gentleman will be aggrieved when they pass on the Bowery Street, seeing their fallen condition. So if any gentleman can become unhappy by seeing such condition of people, what to speak of saintly persons who are supposed to be responsible for spiritual up…Room Conversation Jaipur, January 18, 1972
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September 15th, 2009 at 7:20 am
jai Prabhupada
jai Prabhupada
September 15th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Thank you prabhu …
Thank you prabhu for the nectar! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!