Guest guest Posted January 17, 2002 Report Share Posted January 17, 2002 Gauranga Prema Prabhu presents another one of Srila Prabhupada's dear and famous quotes on self-sufficiency: "Get all your necessities from the land." Who on the GBC, or sannyasis or gurus is still preaching this philosophy? I can think of maybe one or two devotees -- but I'd like to hear some names put forward by others on the cow conference. Nominations, anyone? your servant, Hare Krsna dasi "Gauranga Prema (das) BCAIS (Cape Town - SA)" wrote: > Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture Canto 1 Ch.10 text 4... London...November 25 1973 > > So the mahI, the land, the land is there. Just like in America or in > Australia there are so much land. In Africa, so much land lying vacant. But > they do not know that this land can produce all the needs of life. > Sarva-kAma- dughA mahI. Sarva-kAma, whatever you want. Actually we are > gettingI > Just like this Western civilization has created so may slaughterhouse for > eating purposes. But wherefrom they are getting? From mahI, from the land. > If there is no pasturing ground, grazing ground, wherefrom they will get the > cows and the bulls? That is alsoI Because there is grass on the land and the > cows and bulls eat them, therefore they grow. Then you cut their throat, > civilized man, and eat, you rascal civilized man. But you are getting from > the mahI, from the land. Without land, you cannot. Similarly, instead of > cutting the throat of the cows, you can grow your food. > Why you are cutting the throat of the cows? After all, you have to get from > the mahI, from the land. So as they are, the animal which you are eating, > they are getting their eatables from the land. Why don't you get your > eatables from the land? Therefore it is said, sarva-kAma-dughA mahI. You can > get all the necessities of your life from land. So dughA means produce. You > can produce your food. Some land should be producing the foodstuff for the > animals, and some land should be used for the production of your foodstuffs, > grains, fruits, flowers, and take milk. Why should you kill these innocent > animals? You take. You keep them mudA, happy, and you get so much milk that > it will moist, it will make wet the ground. This is civilization. This is > civilization. -- Noma Petroff Academic Department Coordinator BOWDOIN COLLEGE Department of Theater & Dance 9100 College Station Brunswick ME 04011-8491 Phone: (207) 725-3663 FAX: (207) 725-3372 e-mail: npetroff (AT) bowdoin (DOT) edu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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