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On his walk in King's Park, Srila Prabhupada spoke about the unemployed Indian boy who had visited him the previous night. "This man is unemployed and if we engage him for ploughing, will he do that?"

Paramahamsa said that he didn't think so.

Prabhupada laughed. "Just see -- therefore, there must be division of job. That is catur-varnyam maya srstam. He's a sudra. He does not want to produce his own food. If you give him some salary, then he will be satisfied. And then he will work with plough also. If you give him salary, he will accept that."

Jayadharma brought up some recent news. "Srila Prabhupada, we received information yesterday that one man in northern New South Wales is willing to sell us a farm, a great big farm out there in the southern tropics. Would this be a good place for engaging people like the Indian boy who came yesterday?"

Prabhupada described future farming projects. "Yes, our next program is to organise farming. Let anyone come. We shall give him free food and employment: 'Come on'. Not that 'I want to work as a clerk in the city'. You produce your own food. I give you ingredients. I give you land. And work for five, six hours, and take your food and chant Hare Krsna."

Jayadharma wondered if everybody who came to the farm had to agree to follow the four regulative principles. Prabhupada's answer was clear. "Yes, otherwise he cannot come. Our main business is to make him Krsna conscious."


- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu