When humanity forsakes God to pursue economic gain, it devolves into animal consciousness, abandoning its sacred human duty.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation — March 25, 1969, Hawaii 690325IN-HAWAII [06:48 Minutes] Initiations_690325IN-HAWAII Prabhupāda: So now you come here. You have given... There is no āsana, sitting? Give him one piece of...
So I shall perform this initiation ceremony. If you kindly sit, you can see. [break] I am traveling everywhere. Next I am going to San Francisco.
But my disciples, they will stay here. This Gaurasundara dāsa, Mr. Gary, he will live here with his wife. Yes.
So temple, if people come, that is temple. You see? That is temple. And if we, suppose, construct a huge building and nobody comes, then what is the use of spending money? We are not after such thing.
But if somebody has got money, he wants to construct temple, it is welcome. We can give nice plan how to do it. In India there are Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa temples, just like one temple is as good as a big fort. They spend so much.
You see? But here also, in your country, there are many big churches. So people, formerly they were religiously inclined. So either Christian, Muhammadan or Hindus or anyone, they were constructing temple, churches, mosques. But that mentality is now gone.
You see? They will spend lots of money for a skyscraper building to get income, and temple is called nonproductive building. You see? They do not wish to engage their money in nonproductive thing because they have become economic. But that is a wrong theory.