Treat the envious with detachment as scriptural wisdom demands, not from hatred but to protect the preaching work.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...how such gṛhastha. It is never recognized. Jayapatākā: You are actually the only one preaching there. You're the only one that has showed any preaching capacity. Prabhupāda: No self-interest—that is the difference. I wanted to serve.
That is the difference. But now it is clear. None of them, they want to serve. They want to make one establishment so that they can eat and sleep.
Of course, there is some preaching, but if there is—preaching is the purpose—why they should separate? That is not the purpose. The purpose is that "I must have some separate establishment as ordinary karmīs they have got their separate establishment." Preaching is not that; neither they can preach with enviousness. So, what to do? Jayapatākā: In any case, he has not yet accepted, and it will take some time to build your house. Prabhupāda: Yes.
That is not... On principle. I am talking on the principle. That is not yet.
It will take some, at least two, three years or at least one year. But this is the position. This Dāmodara Mahārāja you have already experience about... [laughs] Bhavānanda: Yes.
Bhavānanda: He is like an ant. They are more envious.
Jayapatākā: Even yesterday, Madhusūdana Mahārāja, he was insulting Dāmodara to his face. He said, Dāmodara Mahārāja... His brahmacārī asked him, "Are you coming?" And he said, "No. I'll stay." And Madhusūdana said, "Yes, you have to stay and give all the reports to Śrīdhara Mahārāja.