Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 55

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Prabhupada: No luxuries. Live very simple life and you save time for

chanting Hare Krsna.

 

Hamsaduta: Yes, Prabhupada.

 

Prabhupada: That is my desire. Don't waste time for bodily comforts. You

have got this body. You have to eat something. You have to cover yourself.

So produce your own food and produce your own cloth. Don't waste time for

luxury, and chant Hare Krsna. This is success of life. In this way organize

as far as possible, either in Ceylon or in Czechoslovakia, wherever... Save

time. Chant Hare Krsna. Don't be allured by the machine civilization.

 

Hamsaduta: Yes, Prabhupada.

 

Prabhupada: This is soul-killing civilization, this kind way of life,

especially European countries. Anywhere you can inhabit it. It is not very

difficult. A cottage; you can produce your own food anywhere. Am I right?

 

Hamsaduta: Yes, Prabhupada. We will do it.

 

Prabhupada: And money, spend for Krsna -- for Krsna's palace, for Krsna's

temple, for Krsna's worship, gorgeous, as gorgeously as... Not for false...

This is the human civilization. And to organize this, varnasrama will help

you to divide the society -- brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya -- as there is

division in the body. That will help. Don't waste human form of body for

sense gratification.

 

I wanted to introduce this. Now I have given you ideas. You can do it. You

are all intelligent. For Caitanya Mahaprabhu's para-upakara... So you do

good to others. Not exploit others. Any human being who has been bestowed by

this body has the capacity to chant Hare Krsna. Give them chance and make

situation favorable. Is that clear?

 

Hamsaduta: Yes, it's clear, Prabhupada. You have made everything very clear.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- October 8, 1977, Vrndavana