Standard 15 Use of Krsna's Properties - biogas digester

April 21, 1999

> This seems to be very environmentally friendly- all you require is cow

> dung? I don't think so.

I admire your post, and you are right, the disciple is duty bound to follow

the instructions of his guru.

I also feel like you, and have at times lived in places with no electricity,

in the Jungle, using whatever was at hand.

We should aspire for this. It is not always so easy, especialy if you dont

own your own land.

But the vast majority of devotees would think you were mad if you suggested

we do this. What to do?

You are right, in order to build a biogas digestor, no matter how simply,

you are going to need either some steel, or cement or even worse fibreglass,

there is no getting away from it.

Actualy Srila Prabhupada was RADICAL. Just see the post where he explains

why electric light as opposed to oil lamp forces us to loose the goal of

life.

What amazes me is that some devotees think I am radical, and unrealisitic

when I suggest we do this. But these are Prabhupadas instructions, and we

SHOULD follow them.

We think that because we are not responsible for the electricity, then we

can use it. Of course Prabhupada said that there is no harm in using these

things to spread Krsna Consciousness. But then he had to re-establish the

vaisnava siddhanta from almost scratch, as his godbrothers, were fighting

amongst themselves. There was an emergency. But now there are millions of

books out there. Surely now that things are established it is time to READ

those books, and there we will find Srila Prabhupadas un-followed orders.

Does it not behoove EVERY ONE of his disciples and followers to re-read his

books and implement ALL the things he wanted us to do. What is a disciple if

he WILL NOT do this?

Actualy I was going to write a text, saying that I thought you were being a

bit extreme. But how can one say that the orders of the Guru are extreme?

That implies faithlesness.

You are right, and I would suggest we can judge the seriousness of Srila

Prabhupadas disciples, and followers by their willingness to follow his

orders, and make that society that he envisioned. Otherwise we are simply

show bottle devotees.

Thank you mataji, for jolting me out of my complacency.

YS Samba Das

> This seems to be very environmentally friendly- all you require is cow

> dung? I don't think so. In an earlier report it was mentioned it requires

> technology to make this bio- gas digester- stainless steel, concrete, etc.

> Again, its dependent on Ugra- karma- steel works, factories, petroleum for

> transport of all the parts, polluting,

> polluting, polluting mother earth, and forcing on people an

> artificial way of life, which Prabhupada described as hellish..

> People who are looking for an alternative will be far more impressed if we

> use the cow patties, and simply burn them. We have to see what is

> beneficial to the earth as a WHOLE - not just try to make our own tiny

> section of it green, at the expense of polluting the rest.

> Ultimately to return to Krsna is our goal. That's not possible

> without pleasing the spiritual master, and to please the spiritual master

> is not possible without FOLLOWING HIS DIRECTIONS. Srila Prabhupada gave

> many directions regarding the farms, and he said that the village system

> in India, where everything is based on the cow and bull, is best, and is

> modelled after Krsna's pastimes in the spiritual world. It should be what

> our farms are modelled after- he said this MANY times- it could fill

> volumes. To grow or not grow crops for cash is not a whimsical choice, it

> is essential to know the instructions of our spiritual master and follow

> them as far as possible, if we want to be happy in this life, reverse the

> misery of the world and make it happy, and ultimately allow EVERYONE the

> opportunity to go back home back to Godhead.

April 21, 1999