If you guide other people, and you do yourself, just to keep the temple very neat and clean, it will be a very, very, great service

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"If you guide other people, and you do yourself, just to keep the temple very neat and clean, it will be a very, very, great service"

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

If you guide other people, and you do yourself, just to keep the temple very neat and clean, it will be a very, very, great service.

Morning Walk -- March 9, 1974, Mayapura:

Guest (5): I want to be a member, and I wish to resign from my present service. And I wish to dedicate my whole life to...

Prabhupāda: What is your present service?

Guest (5): At present, I am serving in the steel plant, Hindustan Steel Industry.

Prabhupāda: Oh, steel plant.

Guest (5): And I want to, wish to dedicate my whole life to the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: That is very good proposal.

Guest (5): And I am a...

Prabhupāda: How far you are educated?

Guest (5):. As long as I will live, I will broom and clean the temple.

Prabhupāda: Very good. That's all right. You go on doing that.

Guest (5): OK. And then I will submit my resignation.

Prabhupāda: That is up to you. I cannot say.

Guest (5): Yes. And my parents are sufficient enough. They have enough land...

Prabhupāda: Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau **. Tan-mandira-mārjanādau. That is also great service. If you guide other people, and you do yourself, just to keep the temple very neat and clean, it will be a very, very, great service.

Guest (5): Yes, yes, yes. I am ready to do that.

Prabhupāda: Well, then you are welcome immediately.