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Although everything is expensive, one thousand rupees sufficient for a person. You are each getting that. So the plan is all right. Now you try to become devotee. That will bring happiness. Otherwise there is no happiness

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"Although everything is expensive, one thousand rupees sufficient for a person. You are each getting that. So the plan is all right. Now you try to become devotee. That will bring happiness. Otherwise there is no happiness"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Don't think that, "My father left so much property. Let me eat and drink and go to hell." That is not happiness. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam (BG 6.21). Everything explained. Read books. Be devotee. That will bring happiness. And economically you may not be disturbed that you're poverty-stricken, you have to beg something or . . . no. Whatever is absolutely . . . more than that. More than that. One man does not require 2,500. Nowadays, even it is very expensive, one thousand is sufficient. Although everything is expensive, one thousand rupees sufficient for a person. You are each getting that. So the plan is all right. Now you try to become devotee. That will bring happiness. Otherwise there is no happiness.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Actually this has always been your program, that you give us a little money to begin, but then you insist that, "Now develop it on your own strength."

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "I'll give you help to begin it . . ."

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ". . . but you must develop it." In all of the temples, like that.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Like in Hyderabad now . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: . . . you want to give some to begin, but they must now develop.

Prabhupāda: That is the duty. But not that you can get happiness. Happiness is in your hand, in your fortune, in your . . . that is a different thing. Don't think that, "My father left so much property. Let me eat and drink and go to hell." That is not happiness. Sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriya-grāhyam (BG 6.21). Everything explained. Read books. Be devotee. That will bring happiness. And economically you may not be disturbed that you're poverty-stricken, you have to beg something or . . . no. Whatever is absolutely . . . more than that. More than that. One man does not require 2,500. Nowadays, even it is very expensive, one thousand is sufficient. Although everything is expensive, one thousand rupees sufficient for a person. You are each getting that. So the plan is all right. Now you try to become devotee. That will bring happiness. Otherwise there is no happiness.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have experience of that for sure.

Page Title:Although everything is expensive, one thousand rupees sufficient for a person. You are each getting that. So the plan is all right. Now you try to become devotee. That will bring happiness. Otherwise there is no happiness
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-06-17, 18:45:33
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1