Prabhupāda: Devotees should not live like that, but the atmosphere is such that without doing that, you cannot live.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: I am conditioned to live like that, and my service is like that.
Prabhupāda: Not everyone.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: I don't see my family; I don't have time to eat prasādam. If I was a karmī, I would be doing the same thing.
Prabhupāda: No, you are doing for Kṛṣṇa. Because if you do not do that, then you don't get your bread also. That is not advised. You have to work for your bread. So Kṛṣṇa has given you that. You do it, and do it for Kṛṣṇa, that's all. We are speaking of the general situation.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes, that's true. Absolutely it's true.
Prabhupāda: Yes. General situation is that everyone is put into this condition. Just like we are traveling. We are traveling on plane. It is dangerous, everyone knows, but we have to take it.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: It is dangerous . . .
Prabhupāda: When I was in Vṛndāvana alone . . . you have seen my room in the Rādhā-Dāmodara?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That's all. I was writing books. But since I have taken this preaching work all over the world, I have to use everything. That I have to do, because I am preaching. Arjuna is recognized devotee. Kṛṣṇa says bhakto 'si. He could sit down underneath a tree and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Why he is fighting? It is very good? So devotee's activities, although it appears to be like the ordinary karmī, it is not; it is bhakti. Arjuna, when he is fighting, he is bhakta; he is doing for Kṛṣṇa.