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First of all you become millionaire, then ask the respect. They want the credit beforehand. Trust no future, however pleasant

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"First of all you become millionaire, then ask the respect. They want the credit beforehand" |"Trust no future, however pleasant"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

The respect of a millionaire immediately, with future tense. Just see. "You give me the respect of a millionaire. I shall become in future a millionaire." What is this nonsense? First of all you become millionaire, then ask the respect. They want the credit beforehand. "Trust no future, however pleasant." Why shall I believe you?.

Prabhupāda: If you simply copy something, that is not credit. The credit should go to the original.

Ātreya Ṛṣi: The scientists admit that there is nothing new that they can make. Everything is the manipulation of the laws of nature.

Prabhupāda: Then the thing is that as they are individual person trying to do something wonderful, the individual person who has already done all this wonderful, how much credit He deserves. If by simply copying you want to take so much credit that you will defy the existence of God—you are so fool, rascal—then how much credit should be given to the original person who has made all these things existing. What is their answer?

Ātreya Ṛṣi: They simply don't care.

Śyāmasundara: Like that man said last night, "We will do it."

Prabhupāda: You will do it, that's all right, you will do it. But it is already there. What is your credit, you will do it? It is already there, then what is your credit?

Ātreya Ṛṣi: They choose to ignore it.

Prabhupāda: Even if you do that, the already one who has done it, why don't you give Him credit?

Śyāmasundara: Yeah, instead of being envious.

Prabhupāda: There is a . . . tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān (BG 16.19). They are envious, rascal. Envious means rascal. That is material quality. And spiritual quality means to praise good quality: "Oh, you are so nice, you have got so good quality." That is spiritual. And enviousness: "Oh, this man is surpassing me. All right, I . . ."

Śyāmasundara: Cut him down.

Prabhupāda: That's right. This is material. Matsaratā. This is explained in Bhāgavata as matsaratā. Paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ satāṁ vāstavaḥ vastu vedyam atra (SB 1.1.2).

Śyāmasundara: Last night you said that that man's claim was like a poor man saying: "Yes, I'll become a millionaire."

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Śyāmasundara: "Someday I'll become a millionaire."

Prabhupāda: And he wants the respect of a millionaire immediately, with future tense. Just see. "You give me the respect of a millionaire. I shall become in future a millionaire." What is this nonsense?

First of all you become millionaire, then ask the respect. They want the credit beforehand. "Trust no future, however pleasant." Why shall I believe you?

Śyāmasundara: There's a lake over there. There's a pond. We can walk down there . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Oh, bridge we are not going to cross? All right then.

Ātreya Ṛṣi: Every time they find something new they should be glorifying Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Page Title:First of all you become millionaire, then ask the respect. They want the credit beforehand. Trust no future, however pleasant
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Created:2022-08-26, 11:17:51
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1