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There must be division of work. So you take from . . . when there is necessity of brain work, you take help from him. And when there is need of the walking, take leg, help from the leg. It is a cooperation

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"there must be division of work. So you take from . . . when there is necessity of brain work, you take help from him. And when there is need of the walking, take leg, help from the leg. It is a cooperation"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

There must be division of work. So you take from . . . when there is necessity of brain work, you take help from him. And when there is need of the walking, take leg, help from the leg. It is a cooperation. Not that everyone has to learn everything.

Jesuit Priest: I know, but you call him, don't you? You want him to be. You want the doctor in existence.

Prabhupāda: So does it mean to say that because we require necessary, we have to take education of medical man?

Mother: But you don't train people to be medical men.

Prabhupāda: No, first of all, if we can get it easily . . .

Mother: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Our training is . . . first of all, try to understand. We . . . just like you have got four divisions in the body for maintaining the body. So the head division, the arm division, the belly division and the leg division. The leg is doing its own work—walking.

The hand is doing its own work, and the belly's doing its own work, and the brain is doing own work. It does not mean that when the brain is work, it does not require the help of the leg. But a brain does not require to learn the business of the leg. This is the idea. The brain requires the help of the leg, but does not mean that brain has to learn how to walk also.

Mother: Well, I'm a nurse, and so that is why I would like . . .

Prabhupāda: So there must be division of work. So you take from . . . when there is necessity of brain work, you take help from him. And when there is need of the walking, take leg, help from the leg. It is a cooperation. Not that everyone has to learn everything.

Mother: Yes. Well, as I say . . .

Prabhupāda: It does not . . .

Mother: I myself did a training. I became a nurse.

Prabhupāda: You are asking us, "Why you are not taking medical education?" Why we shall take?

Mother: Because if everybody . . .

Prabhupāda: No, there is no necessity. If the . . . if I can pay, I can get the help of a medical man, why should I waste my time in that way? Let me . . .

Mother: You think? Ah, but you should be self-supporting. You should be . . .

Prabhupāda: Let me engage my time for understanding God.

Page Title:There must be division of work. So you take from . . . when there is necessity of brain work, you take help from him. And when there is need of the walking, take leg, help from the leg. It is a cooperation
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-28, 07:25:54
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1