Prabhupāda: Nobody should be allowed to keep himself lazy. That is not good. Niyataṁ kuru karma tvam (BG 3.8). That is . . . Find out this verse. Oh, he has taken away?
Hari-śauri: Bhagavad-gītā. Oh, I can get another Gītā.
Gargamuni: And they will be successful.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Why not?
Gargamuni: If they are sincere, they will be successful.
Rāmeśvara: So it is little taxing . . .
Prabhupāda: Not taxing. I was doing alone this. I was printing Back to Godhead and going to the press. I was writing. I was posting.
Gargamuni: In one room you had many corners for your different projects. (chuckles)
Rāmeśvara: But if you have hundreds and hundreds of devotees in one center, then you have to be concerned with their spiritual life—how they are engaged, how they're supported.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Spiritual life . . .
Rāmeśvara: So the more people that come, the more intelligence is required to manage.
Prabhupāda: We can accommodate more people also. There is no difficulty.
Gargamuni: Our Māyāpur can hold five hundred men now.
Prabhupāda: Already?
Gargamuni: No, you said that one building . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Gargamuni: . . . we can hold five hundred men.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Gargamuni: So we are waiting for these men. If they have so many extra men for taxing, then send them here.
Rāmeśvara: No, that's not the point at all. That's not at all the point.
Hari-śauri: What was that verse again, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that verse you wanted?
Prabhupāda: Yes. What subject matter? Niyatam.
- niyataṁ kuru karma tvam
- karma jyāyo hy akarmaṇaḥ
- śarīra-yātrāpi ca te
- na prasiddhyed akarmaṇaḥ
- (BG 3.8)
Rāmeśvara: I'm thinking that by selling all these books, gradually hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of people will want us to give them some advice. They'll want to elect Kṛṣṇa conscious leaders. They'll want us to guide the society. So it will require great intelligence to . . .
Prabhupāda: First of all, we have to know where he is. Then we can give. What is his position? Then we can give him. Just like diagnosis. You have to see what is the disease. Then we give medicine.
Rāmeśvara: One of the symptoms of the disease is that all of the people are engaged in artificial work, and the whole world is interdependent. They're so . . . It is very complex system of world trade, world finance.
Prabhupāda: But we have nothing to do with that.
Rāmeśvara: But since the rest of the world is going on like that, then to transform it, it's very . . .
Prabhupāda: No, we say, "You are embarrassed. You come to us. Live with us. You get your food, and whatever service you can do, that's all right. Come here." That's all. We'll send in one of our farms or in temple. Let him be trained up. And if he is actually serious, then have engagement. There is no difficulty. "And if you want that 'I shall work in this way,' that is not possible. You have to work in our way." Then there is unlimited opportunity.