Effective preaching multiplies Krishna's message; wasteful expenditure contradicts the guru's sacrifice and vision.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...London. Guru Mahārāja sending him regularly seven hundred rupees per month. In those days seven hundred means at least... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Twenty times?
Prabhupāda: That was in 1936. Price has increased after 1940. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: At least it was twenty thousand rupees' value now.
Prabhupāda: All of a sudden rice price has increased in 1942 by Churchill's artificial increasing his bribe to recruit soldiers. I have seen. Within two hours the price of rice, from six rupees it came to fifty rupees. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Phew.
Prabhupāda: I was in the grocer's shop purchasing, and all of a sudden the grocer says, "No, no, I am not going to sell any more." He got some information. So that time, six rupees per mound, first class...
Prabhupāda: Per mound. Very first class rice. So he was not going to sell. A few hours after, I went to purchase—fifty rupees.
From six rupees. Government appointed agents to purchase it and stock it. So people, being harassed, they'll come to military. This was Churchill's... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Those British were very clever. Prabhupāda: Artificially created a famine in India.
In my presence. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So Bon Mahārāja was getting seven hundred rupees monthly. That's amazing. Your Guru Mahārāja had to send the money from India to the West. We...