Reporter: Yes. How is it possible sir, if, for someone who is totally dedicated to your religion, how is it possible for them to survive in a world that demands people go out to work for a living?
Prabhupāda: Yes, Kṛṣṇa has helped us. Just like we had no house, but Kṛṣṇa has given us this house through George.
Reporter: But I mean, do your followers work, in the...?
Prabhupāda: No, we do not work like ordinary men.
Reporter: But I mean there must be a... But we couldn’t live our life like this. People have got to work, have they not?
Prabhupāda: No, no. This is the mistaken philosophy, that people has got to work. That is a mistaken philosophy. Nobody has got to work. Just like work means... Suppose if you have given me food, bread. I go there and take my food. Do you think it is work?
Reporter: No, but somebody has to...
Prabhupāda: First of all answer this. You have offered me some dish here.
Reporter: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: So I go and eat. Do you think it is work?
Reporter: No, that isn't work.
Prabhupāda: If you think that going from here to that place is work, that is another thing.
Reporter: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: But if my food is there, so I have to go and take it. Similarly, for everyone there is food and shelter...
Reporter: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: ...ordered by God...
Reporter: Yes.
Prabhupāda: ...but you have to take it.
Reporter: But I mean somebody has to make tables and chairs and carpets and...
Prabhupāda: That is your artificial need.
Reporter: Yes.
Prabhupāda: You have created this need.
Reporter: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Just like other living entities, they also sleep.
Reporter: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: But they do not have apartments or nice bedstead, nice table. That has not hampered their sleeping.
Reporter: No, no.
Prabhupāda: You have created these artificial needs.
Reporter: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: But without this, it does not hamper your eating or sleeping. Your... Your... You have got certain amount of energy.
Reporter: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: That energy was to be utilized for designating or to search out God.
Type: Conversation
Date: Aug. 7, 1973
Location: London
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