Varnasrama College Diary

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Varnasrama College Diary

By Rabindranatha Dasa Adhikari

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

 

Today I wrote up "the future of the Varnasrama College" for our up coming

web site. Bhakta Manabhu who gives the class on computers here at the

college is helping me set up the web site.

 

Today mother Isana gave me the phone number and email address for the

"Agriculture Extension service" in this area. Earlier she tested the soil

for the Varnasrama College garden and she said it was a 7, of which she said

that I could grow just about anything.

 

 

Quote of the day

 

Prabhupada: …Why they are not attracted to live in the farm and be

self-independent and chant Hare Krsna? That is our farm project. Our farm

project is they should be satisfied with simple living. That is nice living.

If you get milk, if you get fruit, if you get grain and open air, it is very

healthy life. Why they should not be attracted?

Yogesvara: It is still the beginning, and because it's the beginning, it is

a little difficult sometimes.

Prabhupada: That may be. But this should be our aim. We should not be

attracted by the modern city life. Simplified life. Save time and utilize

for advancing in Krsna consciousness. That is perfect life. Just like

Vrndavana. Vrndavana life means agriculturist, cowherd boys, uneducated

girls, cows and calves, and tree, fruits. This is Vrndavana. The center is

Krsna…But they are the topmost devotees. These (chuckling) uneducated,

without any town life, cow-men, they are Krsna's best friend.

Unsophisticated, no education, but love intense-that is perfect. That

attracted Krsna more. Vrndavanam parityajya na padam ekam (sic:) na

kartavya... Krsna is so much attached to Vrndavana that He goes nowhere...

What is that? They are not educated girls, up-to-date fashion, (indistinct)

or nothing. Crude. As soon as there was blowing of the flute, immediately

they began to run towards Krsna. Somebody is taking care of children,

somebody is engaged in boiling milk, and somebody was even lying down with

her husband. Still, immediately... Very crude, unsophisticated, but intense

love for Krsna-that is Vrndavana. We want to introduce this farm project

means intense love for Krsna. And other things-very simple: little milk,

little food grain, little vegetable, that's all. And that is very nice. If

you get fresh vegetable, fresh milk, and food grain, what do you want more?

And from milk you can prepare so many nice preparations, unlimited number,

all very palatable, sweet. This civilization we want to introduce, not

so-called rascal civilization and become implicated in this cycle of birth

and death. This is not civilization. This is killing civilization. Human

being got the opportunity to get out of these clutches of birth and death.

They do not understand. They're so rascal, they do not understand how they

are implicated in this cycle of birth and death, nor they do take it

seriously, that this is the problem,

janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [bg. 13.9]. They are so blind

rascals, they do not see that this is real suffering. They do not know it.

Simply theorizing, making plan, and they do not know what is the suffering.

Such a rascal civilization. So we have to introduce real civilization.

Therefore we are struggling so hard. So make in such a way. -Room

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