ISKCON Chicago, 1974
Reporter: In Los Angeles, do you live in richness, do you have a car, and a
chauffer, and a yacht?
Srila Prabhupada: Why not? I am the guru of the richest country, why shall I
not have a car? If I am guru of the richest country, then why shall I not
have a car?
Reporter: So, you have one?
Srila Prabhupada: I have many. In each center I’ve got at least one dozen
cars. Just now I’m coming from Europe, Germany. They’ve got vans. They go
into the interior villages. Volkswagen? So our devotees are packed up in
each bus and they go into the interior villages. Similarly, in every center
we have got. In Germany, in England, in Los Angeles, in New York.
Reporter: Here also?
Srila Prabhupada: Just see.
Reporter: Some spiritual leaders live in great richness…
Srila Prabhupada: Because I know you are envious, therefore, I don’t sit
here (elevated seat), I am sitting here. You are very envious when a
spiritual master is honored very nicely by his disciples, you become
envious. What can be done? But that is the etiquette, that the spiritual
master be honored as good as God. But if you do not know, you become
envious, “Why this man is sitting in this position in this gorgeous way?”
What can be done
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