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Srila Prabhupada, New Vrindaban, September 7, 1972: […] Ass does not enjoy life, but works very hard. We have got… Several times explained. In India, the washermen keep an ass, and the ass bears ten tons of loads on the backside and goes to the ghata, for washing ghata. And he is let loose there, and a morsel of grass, a little, few pieces of grass.
And he’s eating there, standing, for again returning with ten tons of load. He is given freedom. He does not think that, “Why shall I work so hard? This grass is available everywhere. I can go. Why I am working for this washerman?”
But he has no sense. Therefore he is called ass. Similarly, all these karmis, they are working so hard, but they are eating, say, two pieces of bread and a cup of tea or milk. That’s all. Or something else. They have been collared.
But we must utilize our time, save our time, how to get out of these four, five principles of materialistic life. That is called dharma. And we should earn so much to keep the body and soul together. That’s all. “Now, if I get more money?” If you get more money, then employ it for Krishna. If you get more money, then engage it for Krishna.
Don’t try to… Therefore it is said, dharmasya, narthasya dharmaikantasya. Na arthasya, neither money, arthasya, dharmaikantasya, one who is actually religious, dharma, kamo labhaya hi smrtah. The money you get, it is not for your sense gratification. Narthasya dharmaikantasya. Actually, if you are dharmic, if you are religious, then suppose you have got money… You can get money because you are dharmic. So you can get money.
But don’t employ it kamo labhaya, for your sense gratification. Therefore in any country, in the past, I mean to say, millenniums of years, in the days gone by, any rich man, if he has got some money, he would construct some church or some temple or some mosque. That was the system throughout the whole world. Because they knew that “I have got this extra money, I must employ it for God consciousness.”
But at the present moment, the churches are being transformed into factories, because they have lost religion. And because they have lost religion, they are animals. And how you can get peace and prosperity in the society of animals?
So dharmasya hi, arthasya, narthasya dharmaikantasya. One who is actually religious, he does not earn money for sense gratification. Na kamo labhaya hi smrtah. Full Lecture
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