repair, don't throw away

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> Srila Prabhupada didn't like western habit of throwing things away,

> preferring that broken items be mended.

>

> Examples?

 

Just like in your country I have seen the machine. In the beginning, when I

came to your country, I saw some typewriter machine is throw in the garbage.

Of course, in India they do not throw. They repair it. But here your

repairing cost is very, very high. Therefore you throw away. So the machine

which is costly, but as it does not work, you throw away -- it has no

value....

Bhagavad-gita 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975