750524BG.FIJ                    Lectures                      Nowadays they are facing a scarcity of food. The solution is there in the  Bhagavad-gita. Krsna says, annad bhavanti bhutani: “Bhutani, all living  entities, both animal and man, they can live very nicely without any  anxiety provided they have got sufficient food grains.” Now what  is your objection to this? This is the solution. Krsna says, annad bhavanti  bhutani. So it is not utopian; it is practical. You must have  sufficient food grain to feed the human being and the animal, and everything  will be peaceful immediately. Because people, if one become hungry, he is  disturbed. So give him food first of all. That is Krsna’s injunction. Is  that very impossible, impractical? No. You grow food more and distribute.  So much land is there, but we are not growing food. We are growing or  busy in manufacturing tools and motor tires. Then now eat motor  tires. But Krsna says that “You grow anna.” Then there is no  question of scarcity. Annad bhavanti bhutani

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Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

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1)  740418mw.bom                 Conversations

Prabhupada: (Sanskrit) From our childhood, if there was a rice  grain on the floor, my father, er, my mother would ask me, “Take it  and touch it on your head.” Dr. Patel: We were advised not to tread on the  grains. (break) Prabhupada: Because by chance, if the grain is struck with  the leg, she asked, “Take it and you touch it on the head.” Dr. Patel:  That is the culture. That is real culture. Prabhupada: Means from the  very beginning he understands anna-brahma. Dr. Patel: Even it is not  spoken, you practice it. Prabhupada: Yes, practice it. According to Vedic  culture, the higher class, in every home there is narayana-sila for worship,  especially of the brahmanas.

2)  761029SB.VRN                    Lectures                     There are, for the materialistic person, there are two varieties  of self-interest. One is concentrated interest and other is  expanded interest. Just like a child, if you give him some foodstuff, a  cake, he will immediately eat himself, and if he is little liberal, then  his other friends also, he will give. First of all, first is, he wants  to eat, and then the other friend, “Oh you are eating, give me something.”  Alright you also take. So, this is called extended interest and the  beginning is self-interest, anna brahma(?), I shall… Self-preservation is the first law of nature. …

3) TQK 18    It is by ignorance that people think that by  opening factories they will be happy. Why should they open factories? There is no need. There is so much land, and one can  produce one’s own food grains and eat sumptuously without any factory.  Milk is also available without a factory. The factory cannot produce  milk or grains. The present scarcity of food in the world is  largely due to such factories. When everyone is working in the city to  produce nuts and bolts, who will produce food grains? Simple living and high  thinking is the solution to economic problems. Therefore the Krsna consciousness movement  in engaging devotees in producing their own food and  living self-sufficiently so that rascals may see how one can live  very peacefully, eat the food grains one has grown oneself, drink milk,  and chant Hare Krsna.

4)  740928SB.MAY                    Lectures                      Therefore Krsna gives His instruction. He’s the supreme ruler. He gives this  order: annad bhavanti bhutani: “You require food grains.” This is practical.  Who will disagree with Krsna, that “We don’t require food grains; we require  bolts and nuts in the factory”? Who will say? This is practical.

5)  741015SB.MAY                    Lectures                     Here it is said that avidya-kama-karmabhih. By ignorance, they  are thinking by opening factories they will be happy. That is avidya. He does not know that this is ignorance. Why you should open  factory? That is… This is called ugra-karma. There is no  need of opening factory. You have got land. Here are so many lands. You  produce your food grains. Annad bhavanti bhutani. You eat sumptuously food  grain, milk, and that will be available without any factory. The  factory cannot produce milk or food grain. The present scarcity of  foodstuff means everybody is engaged in the city, producing bolts and nuts.  Who is producing food grain? This is the solution of economic  problem. Annad bhavanti bhutani. Therefore we are trying to  engage our men to produce their own food. Be self-sufficient so that  these rascals may see that how one can live very peacefully, eating the food  grains and milk, and chant Hare Krsna. This is our  mission. We don’t deny this food.

6)  740419mw.hyd                 Conversations                Mahamsa: I don’t think we can start building until we finish  this temple. Prabhupada: No, you can start in a  cottage. Mahamsa: Yes, small way. Prabhupada: Yes. Mahamsa: And  then develop. Prabhupada: Building is not very important. Work is  important. Activity is important. I started my movement not with buildings,  but real activity. So building is opulence. You can do without  opulence. You can start anything, even underneath a tree.  There is no difficulty. (break) .

7)  770104rc.bom                 Conversations                concerned about their business and industry. If these young men are held  up in plain living, then where their industry…? Industry means to exploit  the work of others and give them one dollar and make profit ten dollars. This  is industry, at the cost of others some capitalist gaining huge profit. This  is industry. “And let them live in a hellish condition, go to hell. Never  mind. You work in the factory, and we make profit.” The Communist is trying  to take over the industry and get the whole profit. (laughs) That’s all. The  condition remains the same–hellish. But… What is called…? Complacent,  he’s satisfied that “I am getting the profit.” All foolish. The Iran is  also imitating European method of exploiting. They’re bringing men  from village. In India also, British period, they used to, that,but Indian people are little clever. They would come from  the village to the city alone, not with family. They earn money and send  to the family. And whenever they like, they go away. They’re not  dependent. And if you bring family, you have to work. That system  is still going on. The village men, they come but they do not bring their  family. Family remains in the village. He earns, he lives some way or other  and sends money there, and the wife who is intelligent. He (she) accumulates  the money and when there is enough money he (she) purchases  land,

8)  770111tt.ida                                             Hari-sauri: To enter into a city is so imposing on your  consciousness. Prabhupada: Up to that point, simply rubbish, all papers  thrown here and there. People are living in… Now see here, how it is open  and pleasing. Organize this farm project. Farm. (background  talking) Hari-sauri: He’s just saying that in the West one requires a  great deal of capital. To start a farm, to get the land, you need a lot  of money because land is very expensive. And also we have to use  modern farming techniques because we have so few men to run the  farms. Prabhupada: No, you show example. People will do automatically.  When the people find it is very nice, they will take. Hari-sauri: Should we try to make an effort to have our householders go and live  on the farms, a special effort? If it’s ready to do that? Prabhupada: Why  householders? Everyone. Hare Krsna. (japa) Ramesvara: In America  there is a very big emphasis on getting people to join us by moving into our  temples. The temple presidents are very eager to get as many people to move  in as possible, but in the long run most people cannot come up to the  standard. Prabhupada: Therefore I am… Farms. Ramesvara: But  what…? For those people who already have their jobs, instead  of… Prabhupada: That job… They will be very soon jobless. Don’t  worry. (laughs) They will come. They will be obliged to come. Now they  have got job, but as the days are advancing in Kali-yuga, they’ll  be jobless. Hari-sauri: So we can expect that material conditions are  going to become very much worse than this. Prabhupada: They may come or  not. We don’t care for it. Let us establish an ideal society. That is  the…

9)  750514mw.per                 Conversations                Prabhupada: The solution is there. They won’t take it. Solution  is there, that everyone produce your own food. There is so much  land; utilize it. The solution is there. No. They want to sit down on  the table, chair, in a very nice compartment, and making solution.  They won’t go. Amogha: He was saying that your solution was too simple. He  said that people will not accept it because it is too simple. Prabhupada: That is his ignorance. They will say it is primitive. That is the only  solution. According to the Vedic system, you cannot use anything which  you cannot produce. Suppose this we are using, but according the Vedic system  we should not use it because I cannot produce it. Then the whole solution is  there. Nobody will manufacture this because there will be no customer. If I  refuse this use of this machine, thinking that “I cannot produce it; I should  not use it,” then where is the customer? The so-called industry will  automatically stop, and he has to go to the village outlying. Paramahamsa:  Some of the orthodox hippies have this philosophy, and they reject all  machines and things that they cannot make themselves. Prabhupada: That is  natural. That is natural. It is good. But they are not led by good  leader. Otherwise next alternative is this, that you

have to give up this artificial way of civilization. Now  this land is vacant. We can produce so much food grains if it is  utilized.

10)  770104rc.bom                 Conversations                Prabhupada: That should be stressed. First business is the  neighboring village people, they should come, chant and take prasada.  And gradually, when they become interested, then they come, live with  us, work with us. In this way they should be induced, bare living  and chanting.

Jagadisa: As in Hyderabad. Prabhupada: Yes. Then our movement is  success. Our only motive is how people become interested in Krsna  consciousness. We have no other motive. No economic problem… Economic  problem is… What is economic problem? We produce our own food and cloth,  barely, and spiritual life… On the farm it is easier. And if they are  dispatched to the city for livelihood, there are big, big roads and big, big  cars and big, big anxieties. Then wine, meat, and so on, so on…,  suicide, their spiritual life finished. …. So write  very elaborately how to do this. Increase. And in your country, we increase  this farm project any unlimited number… So much land is lying  vacant.