Varnasrama College Diary

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September 28, 2004

Varnasrama College Diary

By Rabindranatha Dasa Adhikari

 

Began work on the Varnasrama College garden today, which is right next to my

office, it's small, but it's a start.

 

Lately I have been thinking, that instead of referring to this project as

the "Varnasrama College" that instead I should call it "Vedic village life"

which I think more people could relate to. And within that I could have the

Varnasrama College (for boys) the Girls Academy (for teaching the 64 arts)

the gurukula and the land for the cows and all the (organic) food that we

would grow for the whole village.

 

Quote of the day

 

Yogesvara: Srila Prabhupada, the way you've been describing our solutions to

the problems of the world, they seem to be on two levels. One is the

extended solution, that is to say, the ultimate solution of Krsna conscious.

Prabhupada: No, there is no question of extended. You keep yourself in a

limited solution. And then, when it is appreciated it will be automatically

extended. You don't touch the extended. You become ideal civilized man.

Others will follow.

Yogesvara: Well, for example, ultimately, we want to live locally. These

cities are not necessary.

Prabhupada: No, you make the best use of a bad bargain. We shall depend

more... Just like in New Vrindaban. They are coming to the city for

preaching. So not absolutely we can abstain immediately because we have been

dependent so long, many, many lives. You cannot. But the ideal should be

introduced gradually. And make it perfect more and more and more and more.

But there is possibility. Possibility if you live locally and make your

arrangement, you get your foods... The real necessity is, bodily necessity

is, eating, sleeping, mating and defending. This is necessity. So if you can

eat locally, you can sleep locally, you can have your sex life also locally

and you can defend locally, then what is the wrong? These are the

necessities. We are not stopping this. We are not stopping, "No more sex

life." That is nonsense, another nonsense. You must have. Marry. That's all.

So you can marry locally and live. Where is the difficulty? Defend. If

somebody comes to attack, there must be men to defend. And eating and

sleeping. Where is your difficulty? Manage locally, as far as possible.

After all, these are the necessities of body. So it can be solved locally.

Is it impossible? To solve the bodily necessities? What do you think? Is it

impossible?

Satsvarupa: No, it's very simple.

Prabhupada: Then do it. Do it. Set example perfectly. -Morning Walk

28May1974