“If you go for begging something for Krishna, “No, we are not interested in religious affairs. No. We are secular.” Nobody will pay.”
Prabhupada, Vrindavana, October 20, 1972: […] Isavasyam idam sarvam. Everything belongs to Krishna. Krishna also says, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg. 5.29]. He’s the proprietor. How Krishna’s money you can spend for your sense gratification? That is sinful activities.
If you take government money, government treasury, and spend it for sense gratification, immediately you become criminal. Immediately. Ma grdhah kasya svid dhanam. You cannot touch. Human civilization… Now, at the present moment, they’re less than animal, They are getting money by hook and crook and amassing money. But not spending for Krishna. If you go for begging something for Krishna, “No, we are not interested in religious affairs. No. We are secular.”
Nobody will pay. Now, if you go to somebody that “We are going to open a lunatic asylum and hospital for the drunkards,” then they’ll pay money. Yes. In USA, there is a big hospital for curing, curing drunkards priests. (laughter) Yes. Drunkard priests. Because they have to execute priesthood, but they are drunkard. So they want to be cured.
This is a fact. They’ll give money. If you want money for Krishna, they’ll not give money. They will… More hospitals. More hospitals. The report is “This year, we have increased so many hospital beds.” That means that is advancement. So what is this advancement? People have become sick.
You just stop people becoming sick, there should be no disease. That is advancement. No. Their advancement of civilization means you open more hospitals and more beds. That is advancement.
So this is all sense gratification, kama, for sense gratification. You give medicine to a diseased man to cure him just to make him able to enjoy senses. That’s all. But Krishna consciousness movement is that you give him medicine so that he can get out of the clutches of this material entanglement and go back to home, back to Godhead, and live eternal, blissful life of knowledge. That is Krishna consciousness movement.
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