Acting in Knowledge of Kṛṣṇa
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needs it. Who is not poor? There are so many gentlemen sitting here. Who is not in need of money and food? You are also in need of money. So how do you distinguish poor from rich? Everyone needs it. If that is your definition . . . If one needs money and food, then everyone needs money and food. So everyone is poor.
BOB:  So, but, well—I was thinking in terms of just people who are relatively poor.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Relatively, relatively, maybe. You are more hungry than me. That does not mean you are not hungry or I am not hungry. I do not feel hungry now. That does not mean I do not feel hungry or I am not hungry. For the time being you may not be hungry. But tomorrow you'll be hungry.
BOB:  What I feel is that—somehow these people—that . . . Everybody around them may be stealing, but they still stand up and don't steal. These people somehow deserve something good to happen to them.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  But the man who is thinking that he is not stealing is also a thief because he does not know that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, whatever he is accepting, he is stealing.
BOB:  Is he less of a thief?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  You may not know that I am the proprietor of this wrapper, but if you take it away, are you not stealing?
BOB:  But maybe if I know it is yours and I take it, I am a worse thief than if I do not know whose it is. I just think it may be nobody's, and I take it.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That is also stealing. Because it must belong to somebody. And you take it without his