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{{youtube_right|oO9G0w4GX7w|Arrival and Questions from Media<br/>Melbourne - June 25, 1974}}


<div class="code">740625AR-Melbourne - June 25, 1974</div> 


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'''(Video - 01:55)'''

'''Reporter:''' (break) . . . special servant of God. 

'''Prabhupāda:''' I'm always servant of God, it is for you to recognize, that's all. I'm always servant of God, but it is for you to recognize.

'''Reporter:''' Have you any idea how much money the sect makes every year?

'''Prabhupāda:''' We can spend all the money of the world.

'''Devotees:'''(laughter) ''Haribol!''

'''Prabhupāda:''' Unfortunately, you do not give us the money.

'''Devotees:''' (laughter) ''Haribol!''

'''Reporter:''' What . . . how do you spend, your Grace?.

'''Prabhupāda:''' We are spending at least, at the present moment, eight hundred thousand dollars per month.

'''Reporter:''' On what, Your Grace?

'''Prabhupāda:''' On this propaganda, all over the world. And we are selling our books, not less than forty thousand dollars per month.

'''Reporter:''' Do you like to work?

'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. What's that?

'''Madhudviṣa:''' She wants to know if we like to work.

'''Prabhupāda:''' We are working, more than you—twenty-four hours in the old age I am traveling all over the world.

'''Devotee:''' ''Haribol!''

'''Reporter:''' But don’t you get a lot of your money from begging?

'''Prabhupāda:''' No, no. First of all you see. Working—you cannot work more than us, because I am an old man, seventy-nine years old, and I am traveling always, all over the world, twice, thrice in a year. You cannot work so much, at least.

'''Devotees:''' ''Haribol!'' Prabhupāda.

'''Madhudviṣa:''' Just one more question please. Yes.

'''Reporter (4):''' Your Grace, your religion is a very ascetic one. Will you be living ascetically in Melbourne? We’re told you’ll be taken away in a Rolls Royce.

'''Prabhupāda:''' Our religion does not say asceticism. Our religion teaches to love God. You can love God in this dress. There is no harm.

'''Reporter (4):''' But it is a self-denying religion, isn’t it?”

'''Prabhupāda:''' It is not self-denying. We are using everything, why self-denying? We simply use whatever absolutely necessary, that’s all.

'''Reporter:''' But how do you justify trappings like a Rolls Royce and a very expensive house to live in?

'''Prabhupāda:''' No, we don't want Rolls Royce, we can walk. But if you offer Rolls Royce, I have no objection.

'''Reporter:''' Wouldn’t it be better that you were traveling in a lot smaller car, less pretentious?

'''Prabhupāda:''' Why, why? If you give me a Rolls Royce to travel, why shall I refuse it? It is my favor upon you, I accept this. 

'''Reporter:''' Your Grace, would you tell us briefly how you founded the Hare Krishna in America.

'''Prabhupāda:''' Well, at least whole world is now chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Wherever you go they chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. (end)