Reporter: Have you any idea how much money the sect makes every year?
Prabhupāda: We can spend all the money of the world.
Devotees:(laughter) Haribol!
Prabhupāda: Unfortunately, you do not give us the money.
Devotees: (laughter) Haribol!
Reporter: What . . . how do you spend, your Grace?.
Prabhupāda: We are spending at least, at the present moment, eight hundred thousand dollars per month.
Reporter: On what, Your Grace?
Prabhupāda: On this propaganda, all over the world. And we are selling our books, not less than forty thousand dollars per month.
Reporter: Do you like to work?
Prabhupāda: Yes. What's that?
Madhudviṣa: She wants to know if we like to work.
Prabhupāda: We are working, more than you—twenty-four hours in the old age I am traveling all over the world.
Devotee: Haribol!
Reporter: But don’t you get a lot of your money from begging?
Prabhupāda: No, no. First of all you see. Working—you cannot work more than us, because I am an old man, seventy-nine years old, and I am traveling always, all over the world, twice, thrice in a year. You cannot work so much, at least.
Devotees: Haribol! Prabhupāda.
Madhudviṣa: Just one more question please. Yes.
Reporter (4): Your Grace, your religion is a very ascetic one. Will you be living ascetically in Melbourne? We’re told you’ll be taken away in a Rolls Royce.
Prabhupāda: Our religion does not say asceticism. Our religion teaches to love God. You can love God in this dress. There is no harm.
Reporter (4): But it is a self-denying religion, isn’t it?”
Prabhupāda: It is not self-denying. We are using everything, why self-denying? We simply use whatever absolutely necessary, that’s all.
Reporter: But how do you justify trappings like a Rolls Royce and a very expensive house to live in?
Prabhupāda: No, we don't want Rolls Royce, we can walk. But if you offer Rolls Royce, I have no objection.