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Careful Association With Politicians, Management Requires Clear Understanding

📅 July 1, 1977 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 16 min
Mix carefully with politicians and rely on shastra's words, not material blindness.
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Prabhupāda: ...allowing permanent residence to some foreigners that will help us. That will help us. But if they do not do anything, then what is the use of them? What we can expect from them, profit?

What we expect? Our real problem is here, that every time our men has to go out, they kicked out, trained-up men... So if we can at least, as he has asked, submit the names, let us test what they will do. Otherwise, what help you expect from them?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Only that, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: What help you expect from them? For money's concern, we are selling our books, publication, everything. We are also contributing. We cannot expect any money from government.

Prabhupāda: So what help we expect? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Simply some allowing our men to be there, like that. Simply allowing our men to remain in the country.

Prabhupāda: That is our request for them. Bhakti-caitanya: That is why if people appreciate us, then automatically...

Prabhupāda: They are appreciating all over the world. Bhakti-caitanya: Yeah. No, in India now, when people are appreciating, you are preaching, and when it will catch little fast, then automatically they have to accept it. Sometimes they accept the voice of the peoples. Prabhupāda: That we are already presenting. We want this help.

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