Cow Quote #14 - Get all your necessities from the land

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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.

 

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