40 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
business. [Everyone laughs.] For example, here in Mayapur
we have employed a contractor. That is not service—that is
business. Is it not? Sometimes they will advertise, “Our
customers are our masters?” Is it not? But in spite of the
flowery language —‘“‘Our customers are our masters” —this
is business, because nobody is a qualified customer unless he
pays. But service is not like that. Service—Caitanya Maha-
prabhu prays to Krsna:

yatha tatha va vidadhatu lampato

mat-prana-ndathas tu sa eva naparah

“You do whatever You like, but still You are my worship-
able Lord?’ That is service. “I don’t ask any return from
You.” That is service. When you expect some return, that is
business.
BOB: I wish to ask you to advise me on how I can come to
feel closer to God. I'll be leaving you soon. And ’m—
SRILA PRABHUPADA: You have to be purified.
BOB: I come to the temple at times, and then I leave, and
I’m not sure how much I take with me.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: It does not take much time. Within
six months you will realize your progress. But you have to
follow the regulative principles. Then it will be all right.
Just like these boys and girls are doing.
BOB: Yes, I see.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: They have no tendency for going to
the cinema or going to a hotel. No. They have stopped all
anarthas, all unnecessary things.
BOB: I —I feel that when I go back, they’ll—
SRILA PRABHUPADA: The whole human life is meant for
purification.
BOB: Yes:
