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Mukunda, July 26, 1976, London: Srila Prabhupada, you’re going to outdo Shakespeare soon. You’ll have written more English words than William Shakespeare. (Prabhupada laughs) Maybe you already have.
Hari-sauri: I don’t think Shakespeare’s brought out fifty-six books.
Mukunda: The Encyclopedia Brittanica wrote to us asking for…
Prabhupada: They have said…
George Harrison: These books are such a lot of work. I don’t know how he did it all.
Gurudasa: While everyone else sleeps, Prabhupada…
George Harrison: Yes.
Prabhupada: At night I don’t sleep. Not that because I am nowadays sick. But generally I don’t sleep. At most two hours. At most.
Hari-sauri: I think it’s a long time since you’ve taken any rest at night.
Prabhupada: I take little rest during daytime. So on the whole, three to four hours. But actually I do not like to sleep.
George Harrison: No, it’s a waste of time.
Prabhupada: I think it is, when I go to sleep, I think that now I’m going to waste my time. I actually think like that.
George Harrison: What’s the word for…, the call it a little, little death. Sleep is the little death.
Prabhupada: The sastra also, Prahlada Maharaja describes the sleeping is waste of time. You find out that verse.
Conversation with George Harrison — July 26, 1976, London
George Harrison: At one time you just had the Godhead and incense.
Mukunda: Yes, now it’s all public support.
Jayatirtha: We don’t sell incense anymore.
Mukunda: And the books we just sell for very little; we hardly make any money on them at all.
Prabhupada: Are you reading sometimes my books? Which one?
George Harrison: Mainly Krishna.
Prabhupada: That is the main book. (laughs)
George Harrison: Mukunda gave me the new books, but there’s so much in, ah, there’s just so much to read.
Prabhupada: Philosophy.
George Harrison: I don’t know how anybody could have written it, it’s difficult enough to read all that amount.
Prabhupada: Sometimes they are surprised how one man can write so many books, but it is Krishna’s grace. lOtherwise not possible. Human being, it is not possible.
Conversation with George Harrison — July 26, 1976, London
Prabhupada: No, my… Of course, I did not attempt in the beginning. I started my activities when I was seventy years old. So they thought, “This man is grhastha. He is embarassed with family life. What he’ll do?” (laughs) That was their impression. But I never neglected. Guru Maharaja told me.
I was simply thinking, “How to do it? How to do it?” I thought, “Let me become a rich businessman. The money will be required.” That was my thought. But Guru Maharaja was asking me, “You give up this. I’ll give you money.” That I could not understand. I was planning. My plan was not wrong. But I was thinking “The money required, so let me earn some money.
Then I shall begin.” And Guru Maharaja said, “You give up this money-earning endeavor. You come completely. I’ll give you money.” I can understand now. But my desire was there. Therefore he guided me. So I was… In 1936 or ’35 in Bombay, after installation of Deity, so—I was grhastha—I helped them to collect some money.
All my Godbrothers applauded and recommended to Guru Maharaja that “Abhay Babu is so influential. Why he lives outside the temple? He can become the temple commander and manage this Bombay temple. Why he is living outside?” Mean “Guru Maharaja may ask him.” So I was… From this Allahabad I was going to Bombay.
I had one small office there. So after hearing, he said, “It is better that he is living little away from your Matha. And when time will rise, he’ll do everything. He hasn’t got to be advised.” I could not understand why he said like that. That means he was so kind that he expected that I shall do something.
That was my asset, his blessing. And I was thinking that “His, this mission must be done very nicely.” Although I was not capable to do anything, I was thinking like that. So desire was there and maybe blessing was there. Yes. There was no question of qualification.
Ramesvara: But still, after ten years the Gaudiya Math still has not learned.
Prabhupada: Hm? They cannot. They… Those who are intelligent, they are making something, Sridhara Maharaja and others. But this man was envious, this Tirtha Maharaja, because… He advertised that he is the only favorite student of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. (laughs) But spiritually he was empty. Materially he was capable, how to manage things.
But spiritually he was zero. That Prabhupada also knew and everyone knows. He had no spiritual understanding. Materially he helped Guru Maharaja how to organize. Therefore he liked him, that “This man is expert manager.”
Ramesvara: We have devotees like that. We also have devotees who spiritually have trouble coming to the programs and even chanting, but still, they like to give them service, so we engage them anyway.
Prabhupada: That is also qualification. That is also qualification. Some way or other, if there is some service, it goes to the credit. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya.
The foolish person may not know that “I am imperceptibly advancing even during my, this material life,” but Krishna takes. Just like Putana. She gave service by allowing her breast to be sucked by Krishna.
Conversation and Instruction On New Movie — January 13, 1977, Allahabad/
Mukunda, July 26, 1976, London: Srila Prabhupada, you’re going to outdo Shakespeare soon. You’ll have written more English words than William Shakespeare. (Prabhupada laughs) Maybe you already have.
Hari-sauri: I don’t think Shakespeare’s brought out fifty-six books.
Mukunda: The Encyclopedia Brittanica wrote to us asking for…
Prabhupada: They have said…
George Harrison: These books are such a lot of work. I don’t know how he did it all.
Gurudasa: While everyone else sleeps, Prabhupada…
George Harrison: Yes.
Prabhupada: At night I don’t sleep. Not that because I am nowadays sick. But generally I don’t sleep. At most two hours. At most.
Hari-sauri: I think it’s a long time since you’ve taken any rest at night.
Prabhupada: I take little rest during daytime. So on the whole, three to four hours. But actually I do not like to sleep.
George Harrison: No, it’s a waste of time.
Prabhupada: I think it is, when I go to sleep, I think that now I’m going to waste my time. I actually think like that.
George Harrison: What’s the word for…, the call it a little, little death. Sleep is the little death.
Prabhupada: The sastra also, Prahlada Maharaja describes the sleeping is waste of time. You find out that verse.
Conversation with George Harrison — July 26, 1976, London
George Harrison: At one time you just had the Godhead and incense.
Mukunda: Yes, now it’s all public support.
Jayatirtha: We don’t sell incense anymore.
Mukunda: And the books we just sell for very little; we hardly make any money on them at all.
Prabhupada: Are you reading sometimes my books? Which one?
George Harrison: Mainly Krishna.
Prabhupada: That is the main book. (laughs)
George Harrison: Mukunda gave me the new books, but there’s so much in, ah, there’s just so much to read.
Prabhupada: Philosophy.
George Harrison: I don’t know how anybody could have written it, it’s difficult enough to read all that amount.
Prabhupada: Sometimes they are surprised how one man can write so many books, but it is Krishna’s grace. lOtherwise not possible. Human being, it is not possible.
Conversation with George Harrison — July 26, 1976, London
Prabhupada: No, my… Of course, I did not attempt in the beginning. I started my activities when I was seventy years old. So they thought, “This man is grhastha. He is embarassed with family life. What he’ll do?” (laughs) That was their impression. But I never neglected. Guru Maharaja told me.
I was simply thinking, “How to do it? How to do it?” I thought, “Let me become a rich businessman. The money will be required.” That was my thought. But Guru Maharaja was asking me, “You give up this. I’ll give you money.” That I could not understand. I was planning. My plan was not wrong. But I was thinking “The money required, so let me earn some money.
Then I shall begin.” And Guru Maharaja said, “You give up this money-earning endeavor. You come completely. I’ll give you money.” I can understand now. But my desire was there. Therefore he guided me. So I was… In 1936 or ’35 in Bombay, after installation of Deity, so—I was grhastha—I helped them to collect some money.
All my Godbrothers applauded and recommended to Guru Maharaja that “Abhay Babu is so influential. Why he lives outside the temple? He can become the temple commander and manage this Bombay temple. Why he is living outside?” Mean “Guru Maharaja may ask him.” So I was… From this Allahabad I was going to Bombay.
I had one small office there. So after hearing, he said, “It is better that he is living little away from your Matha. And when time will rise, he’ll do everything. He hasn’t got to be advised.” I could not understand why he said like that. That means he was so kind that he expected that I shall do something.
That was my asset, his blessing. And I was thinking that “His, this mission must be done very nicely.” Although I was not capable to do anything, I was thinking like that. So desire was there and maybe blessing was there. Yes. There was no question of qualification.
Ramesvara: But still, after ten years the Gaudiya Math still has not learned.
Prabhupada: Hm? They cannot. They… Those who are intelligent, they are making something, Sridhara Maharaja and others. But this man was envious, this Tirtha Maharaja, because… He advertised that he is the only favorite student of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. (laughs) But spiritually he was empty. Materially he was capable, how to manage things.
But spiritually he was zero. That Prabhupada also knew and everyone knows. He had no spiritual understanding. Materially he helped Guru Maharaja how to organize. Therefore he liked him, that “This man is expert manager.”
Ramesvara: We have devotees like that. We also have devotees who spiritually have trouble coming to the programs and even chanting, but still, they like to give them service, so we engage them anyway.
Prabhupada: That is also qualification. That is also qualification. Some way or other, if there is some service, it goes to the credit. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya.
The foolish person may not know that “I am imperceptibly advancing even during my, this material life,” but Krishna takes. Just like Putana. She gave service by allowing her breast to be sucked by Krishna.
Conversation and Instruction On New Movie — January 13, 1977, Allahabad
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