Prabhupada teaches that petty difficulties of material life should not distract from devotion to Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation [partially recorded] — January 6, 1971, Calcutta 710106R1-CALCUTTA [03:49 Minutes] Conv_710106R1-CALCUTTA Haṁsadūta: [introduction on tape] The following lectures were recorded in Calcutta, India, starting January 6th, 1970 [sic], following the Surat lectures, preceding lectures some were recorded at Māgh-melā. So these are being inserted under emergency conditions, being copied from Devānanda's tape recorder. And following these lectures we will have the other lectures in sequence from the Māgh-melā. All these lectures are on the story of Ajāmila, from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Prabhupāda: hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare hare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda Devotee: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Yes.
Stop. [break] Devotee (1): This [indistinct].
Prabhupāda: Oh. [laughter] Many, many? Devotee (1): Uhm, a [indistinct].
Prabhupāda: Without mosquito curtain you cannot sleep. Devotee (1): No, we can sleep anywhere. But at Advaita Bhavan there's a fair amount of mosquitoes at night. But there's not so many that you can't sleep without mosquito coil burning.
Prabhupāda: Ohh. That's all right. [break] Devotee (2): ...wild goats, [indistinct].
Prabhupāda: Hmm. [indistinct] Devotee (2): The rats in Hawaii are not so big as the rats here. They're only about this big, the body.
Prabhupāda: Every house has rats? Devotee (2): Not every house. No.