Prabhupāda: Just like a śūdra, he cleans in the road for money. They are going as professor, but the category is the same. You don't make any distinction between that sweeper and this professor. Or a hog and cat and dog. The hog is also working hard whole day and night for stool, eating. So this man is also working like that. Beyond that, he has no other knowledge.
Revatīnandana: The scientists, they have a term. Psychologists, they call it the idiot savant. The idiot savant means he's an idiot, but he has one particular talent, and because of that talent he can get along. Just like sometimes you find an idiot, he can look at a column of figures and he can compute the sum in his head very easily, but he can't even understand how to tie his shoes. And many of these scholars are like that. They're actually idiots, but they have one talent for Sanskrit or for history, and because of that they can get along. They can support their body, but otherwise they have no qualifications.
Prabhupāda: Śūdra. Unless he gets that post, he'll starve. He has got some talent in some particular subject, but he must get some service. By serving others, he'll be able to utilize his talent and get some money, then he'll eat. This is śūdra's business, dog's business. Just like a dog, unless he has got a nice master, his position is very precarious. A street dog. Nobody will care, neither if it is shot down.
Yogeśvara: You point out in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that they go to school and learn to become Ph.D., then they have to knock on the door for a job, and no one will open the door.
Prabhupāda: "No vacancy, sir." So just like dog.
Revatīnandana: But they have a way to force them to work. The politicians force the scholars.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Revatīnandana: If they don't print books, if they don't write a book every now and then and print it, get it published, they lose their tenure, their position as a professor. They must produce one book, then another book, then another book. If they don't—finished. In this way they are working all the time.
Prabhupāda: The Marwaris in India, they don't educate their son. Just like Birla. They say: "We can purchase these rascals. Why we should waste our time? (laughter) So-called technicians, so-called expert computer, these are . . . we can purchase. Why we shall waste our time?"
Haṁsadūta: It's the same thing I learned in Germany. First I wanted to get my own press, and I studied the situation very carefully, and I saw it was ridiculous for us to do that; it's so much hard work. It's much easier to collect the money in the street by giving the magazine and then paying someone. They work very hard and do it. Everything is like that. They have so many people that can do everything. The one thing that people can't do is distribute Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and for that Kṛṣṇa's giving so much money.
Prabhupāda: Yes, therefore tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovidaḥ (SB 1.5.18), that verse. Only for this purpose one should endeavor.