Room Conversation in London on Spiritual Topics

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Room Conversation — August 7, 1972, London 720807R1-LONDON [60:30 Minutes] Conv_720807R1-LONDON Prabhupāda: …Kṛṣṇa, not Kṛṣṇa’s money. [laughter] That is taken by Rāvaṇa. [laughter] Just like Sītā belonged to Rāma, but it was taken by Rāma, er... Rāvaṇa.

And that is… And Hanumān become perplexed. So we are perplexed that Rāma…, Sītā has been taken by Rāvaṇa, and so we are trying to rescue her. And that is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Sītā-Lakṣmījī, eh? Rāmacandra-Lord Rāma, Nārāyaṇa.

So Rāvaṇa thought that "Let me make profit taking away Sītā." The result was that he became vanquished with everything. He could not get the favor of Sītā, but the whole family, whole kingdom became vanquished. So this policy is being followed at the present moment. Everybody is interested with Sītā, not with Rāma. You see?

But the foolish people do not know that without Rāma you cannot keep Sītā. You see? That is happening. When you go to ask for some money in India, they give us one thousand, two thousand.

And when there is war within Pakistan and Hindustan, somebody is giving fifty lakhs, somebody is giving hundred lakhs. And what is being used? Namo "bombayah" namaḥ. "Bombayah." So if you don't spend for Rāma, then you will have to spend for bomb, that's all.

You cannot keep the money. That is the way of nature. That "I want to keep money"—that is illusion. You cannot keep.

It will be spoiled. If you don't spend for Kṛṣṇa, then it will be spoiled for some other purpose. Therefore so long as we have got money, let us spend it for Kṛṣṇa. That is real savings.

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