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<div class="heading">I have no interest with the political leaders because it is not a political movement. It is spiritual movement.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview and Conversation -- July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Interview and Conversation -- July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Janice Johnson: I'd like to know, this is your first visit to Washington? Is that right?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Janice Johnson: Who have you visited with while you've been here? Have you stayed here, or have you gone out and...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, I am in the Western country for the last ten years, sometimes Europe, sometimes America. I have got more than one hundred temples all over the world, so I go and visit and instruct my disciples about this movement.</p>
<p>Janice Johnson: But you indicated in..., before you came here, that you were interested in meeting some leaders in the city. Have you met any of them?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Leaders?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: She's wondering whether you met with any political leaders.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. I have no interest with the political leaders because it is not a political movement. It is spiritual movement.</p>
<p>Janice Johnson: Another question I have is, if materialism is not so important as the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, it is important, but not at the sacrifice of spiritual understanding.</p>
<p>Janice Johnson: Well, what I was interested in is why is it necessary to live in such lavish situation as is shown here?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Lavish? What do you mean by lavish?</p>
<p>Janice Johnson: Well, I think this is a rather elegant, lavish kind of room.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: She's referring to your quarters are very nicely furnished.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So it is for you, because you cannot sit down cross-legged, we have arranged this couch for you. (laughter) If it is not lavishly decorated, you'll refuse to come here.</p>
<p>Janice Johnson: Why is it necessary to live in such comfort as this for the spiritual...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, we can live on the street, but you cannot come and see on the street. For you we have arranged. That is the... We can live underneath a tree. That is a... But that does not make any difference. Our point is that you may live materially comfortably—there is no harm—but if you forget your spiritual identity, then you'll remain like animal. Just like sometimes a cat or dog is also allowed to sit on the couch, but that does not mean he has become a human being. He remains a cat and dog because the consciousness is lacking of a human being. In this seat there may be some bugs. So the bug is also living on this couch, but he has no understanding.</p>
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