Srila Prabhupada said:
“This is brahmana. We do not serve anyone, any merchant, officer, any... No. We chant Hare Krsna. That's all. If Krsna wants, He will give us food, or we shall starve. We are not going to serve. This is the proof. We are spending not less than twenty lakhs of rupees for maintaining our establishment throughout the whole world, but we do not know what is our next moment's income. We do not know... We have eaten today. We do not know whether we shall have any eatable next day. This is our position. If it is available, we shall eat; otherwise we shall starve. This is our position. Still, I don't seek any employment, "Give us some service to maintain our..." No, we don't do that. We never do that. When I was alone, I was not doing that. I was living alone. I had no income, no friend, no shelter. Since I left my home, since 1954, I never cared for anyone maintaining me. And there was no resource, fixed income, nothing of the sort. I depended on Krsna.”
To draw a parallel with the Srila Prabhupada’s thoughts, we should not philosophically serve, or tailor to fit in with any banausic scholar, politician, popular social movement, any… Not philosophically. Rather we should speak the Gaudiya Vaisnava siddhanta as it was spoken by our predecessors. The public may dislike it, even reject us, but we shall nevertheless speak. If there is anybody to listen we shall speak, otherwise we will talk to the four empty walls. Still, we will not seek “employment”, or recognition in the public eye, “Please accept us, we are also a genuine religion”. No, we don't do that. We never do that. We may lose our friend, shelter and income, but we will be depending on Krishna.
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