Varnasrama College Diary

January 27, 2005

By Rabindranatha Dasa Adhikari

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Things went on as usual today.

Finished my 16 rounds at 5:45p.m. and Sukadeva Prabhu (ACBSP) lead mangala

arati and Sastra Krt gave the Srimad-Bhagavatam class.

Today we had our first official weekly meeting with Arcita Prabhu (ACBSP)

and Haridev Prabhu on supporting members. For one of the things that I need

for the Varnasrama College is capital as Srila Prabhupada states:

"Unless there is some natural favorable condition, you cannot produce. There

are five causes. The land, labor, capital, organization, and Bhagavad-gita

accepts daiva, another cause. Daiva means godly. You may arrange everything

but if God is against you, in spite of your all arrangement, everything will

be failure. That is described in the Bhagavad-gita. They have searched out

five causes for success. So out of the five causes, daiva, daiva means the

favor of God, that has been taken as the means for any successful thing."

--Srila Prabhupada (Lecture June 10, 1968)

"Business means four things. Yes, we are businessman. I was student of

economics. I know how to do business, and the business principle means you

require four things: land, labor, capital, organization. So, ordinary man

cannot do that. Otherwise, everyone would have done some business and become

millionaires. But it requires these four things: land, labor, organization,

and capital. So where you have got these? You have neither land, neither

capital, neither place. So how you can do business? I am doing business

because I have got all these things. I went to America-land. Then I

worked-labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do

it." --Srila Prabhupada (Morning walk March 11, 1976)

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