Devotee: These problems will take care of themselves if people develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Devotee: Then there is no need to deal with the problem, then.
Prabhupāda: There is no problem. At least we Kṛṣṇa conscious people, we have no problem for eating. Is it? Is there any problem?
Haṁsadūta: There's problem: eating too much!
Prabhupāda: (laughs) This is practical. If you have any problem, you join us. You will have no problem for eating. That I can guarantee you. Wherever you go, you shall eat sumptuously. Yes.
Devotee (3): Is it all right to finish rounds in the temple when there's nothing to do?
Prabhupāda: No.
Devotee (3): This afternoon.
Prabhupāda: Not afternoon. You have to do it in the morning when there is nothing.
Guest (1): Hare Kṛṣṇa!
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. (Hindi) Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Devotee (4): He danced on saṅkīrtana today.
Prabhupāda: Perhaps in other engagement he cannot dance. Actually there is no problem. Why there should be problem? There are 8,400,000 species of life. Out of that, human being are 400 . . . out of that, 80%, they are uncivilized. So all these living entities have no problem for eating. This 20% or 15% people who are called as civilized, they have problem. They have created problem.
At least in India, say, hundred years before, there was no problem for eating, even for the śūdra class or any . . . no, there was no . . . the society was so made, there was no problem. Why fifty years? In 1933 or '36 in Vṛndāvana somebody wanted milk, some pilgrimage amongst ourselves. So went to a house. So, "Can you supply us some milk?" "Ah, how much you want?"
So it was about ten pounds. So she supplied immediately, one woman, and when she was offered price, "Oh, why shall I take a price for ten or twenty pounds of milk? Oh, you can take it." That is my practical experience. Milk was so freely available. So simply we are creating problems by godless civilization. That is a fact.
Haṁsadūta: Once you said we are making solutions to self-created problems, and we think it's advancement.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Haṁsadūta: We've created a big city, and then make so many solutions.
Prabhupāda: Just like we just take example from your country. You are constructing so many highways, freeways. Still, there is problem. Still there is, even in the highways, sometimes blocked.
Aiye. (Hindi) Tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido (SB 1.5.18). (Hindi conversation with guest)
We do not dissuade persons to stop work. No. That is not our . . . you do your work, but be Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is it. Just like Arjuna. Arjuna was a fighter. Kṛṣṇa never stopped him from his occupation, but he was taught Kṛṣṇa conscious even in the battlefield.
(Hindi) (break) Aiye. Aiye. You want to see?
Guest (2): Yes, please.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Where is that book?
Haṁsadūta: Here, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.
Prabhupāda: Kiñcid adhīta. (break) . . . a thousand pages of this size. This is four hundred pages, but that Gītā will be thousand pages. But we shall use very thin paper. Yes.