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.
Mother: You should be self-supporting in that way.
Prabhupāda: Self-supporting . . . we are self-supporting. Just like . . . I have given the example. The body, the social body—you can take of this body—there are four divisions: the head division, the arm division, the belly division and the leg division. So belly is doing the work of the belly, stomach. The leg is walking. The hand is doing, defending, and the head and the brain is giving instruction to everyone. This is cooperation. So that is Vedic system of civilization: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra. There must be divisions of work. Not that everyone has to learn everything.
Mother: No, I don't mean that. You're misunderstanding me.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. Then your question is replied. When I need the help of a medical man, I go to the medical man.
Mother: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So what is the wrong there?
Mother: Well, what I'm saying to you is that . . .
Prabhupāda: No, what is the wrong? You find.
Mother: . . . you can love God and be near God and train to be a medical man. Why don't you let some of your boys be trained to be medical men? Why do you say no?
Prabhupāda: But again you are putting the same question. We are training them for the brain, and you are asking me that, "Why don't you train them for the leg?" That is your question.