Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 58

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Dhananjaya: In Greenland?

Prabhupada: Others cannot live locally.

Satsvarupa: That's not their karma?

Prabhupada: No, karma is there. That is another point. My point is that any

condition, one can live locally. That is my point. They are supposed to be

uncivilized, and they live in the ice cottage. There is no sufficient things

for eating. And how they live? That is the point. So why civilized man

cannot live locally?

Satsvarupa: One objection to that is that they say that now cultures have

been spread more by all this transportation. You even write that the world

is now like a global village. But if everyone just stays in their own place,

they won't know what people and culture is like in other parts of the world,

and their view will be more narrow.

Prabhupada: No. They may go sometimes. Just like in India, they used to live

locally, but at the same time they used to go to the pilgrimages by walking.

It is not prohibited that one should not go out, but when one goes out, he

goes out of pleasure, not as obligation. At the present moment, it has

become an obligation, that one must go out of his home, of his village, of

his country. That is defective. There was no need of so many transports.

People remained locally. One has to go for livelihood hundred miles. This is

defective.

Dhananjaya: But people say they travel for education.

Prabhupada: What education? Hippies? Your education has ended into hippies.

Finish that education, nonsense education... You have created this animal

civilization. Now they are coming out as naked animals. This is the result.

Now you have to reform them. That reformation is Krsna con sciousness. So

you have to make an example, what is actually human life. Then others will

see. You cannot stop them. But some of them, those who are intelligent, they

will see, "Yes, here is life." As they are coming to nakedness, they will

come to this, our mode of life. So you have to become an ideal society. You

live locally, and be self-sufficient. They will see that it is possible to

live locally without movement, and still highly cultured men,

self-sufficient. That is required.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => ROME, MAY 28, 1974 -- MORNING WALK