Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 61

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Prabhupada: You become an example by your behavior. Example is better than

precept. [break]

Jnana: ...to attain the necessary finances to support the programs here.

Prabhupada: Beg. Sell book. That's all. Otherwise how you get finance?

Jnana: One idea is to have a farm that we sell fruit or vegetables, like

that.

Prabhupada: If you open farm for financial help, then it will not be

successful. You should take to farming for supporting yourself. That's all.

Grow your own food. Grow your own cloth. There is no need of financial help

from outside. You get your food grains sufficiently, rice, dahl, wheat,

vegetables, milk, sugar. Bas You get everything. From these five, six items

you should be economically free. That you have to do, not for trade to get

money. Then it will be failure.

Indian lady (3): Can we purchase the house for our own staying?

Prabhupada: Yes. Because this is necessary. You must have some shelter; you

must eat; you must cover. That is necessary. So you do it. Grow food first

of all to feed yourself sumptuously. You must get strength, and that is

needed. But not for trade. The policy should be that you should be

self-sufficient and save time for advancing in Krsna consciousness. That is

wanted. Yavad-artha prayojanam. Yuktahara-viharasya yogo bhavati siddhi-dah.

You shall eat whatever you require for proper upkeep of the body, not eating

too much and sleeping whole day. Don't do that. Eat only what is absolutely

necessary. Then you'll never be in want. People are engaged in material

civilization means they are increasing the bodily demands, unnecessary. Just

like this park. Why we have come to this park? We like this atmosphere. So

similarly, in villages, everyone, if he has got some land, he can live

simply without any gorgeous building. What is the use? Just have a cottage

and have garden. You'll live very peacefully. But they're constructing big,

big skyscraper building in the downtown, and they will have to come here by

car for some peace of mind, and in the meantime, accident, police. This is

the civilization, nonsense civilization. At weekend they will go to the

village, country, and during the week-time they will work hard. This is

their civilization, with the risk of life, running motor car eighty miles'

speed. Every moment there is risk. What is this civilization? Most ludicrous

civilization. So farming means if you live in a farm... Just like in New

Vrindaban they are doing. Produce your own food, live peacefully, fresh

vegetable, fresh grains, fresh milk, and prepare so many nice milk

preparation, kachori, halava with ghee. Offer to the Deity. Eat

sufficiently. What is the use of going outside? Simple life and chant Hare

Krsna. If you can organize that, that will be very nice.

Jnana: A nice program here.

Prabhupada: Yes. What is this rascal civilization, whole day "Where is

money? Where is money? Where is money? Where is money? Where is money?"

Everyone. Busy means "Where is money? Where is money?" Just like the hog, he

is busy: "What time...? Where is stool? Where is stool? Where is stool?

Where is stool? Where is stool?" That is not civilization. If you remain

always busy, "Where is stool?" like the hog, then what is your civilization?

Whole day working, night, nightshift, dayshift, whole day, the same, like

hog.

Brahmananda: They hold more than one job. They have two jobs.

Prabhupada: Yes. Get money and then drink wine and eat meat and do all

nonsense things. This is their civilization.

Jnana: A farm means also we may engage the people because they are not so...

Prabhupada: First of all be engaged yourself. Then they will see the example

and they'll join. Just like in our New Vrindaban. Other men from other

farms, they are coming, and they are offered this milk preparation, burfi,

sandesa, rasagulla, rabri, so many, halava. They become: "Oh, so many nice

things can be prepared from milk?" They do not know, uncivilized. Cut the

animal and eat. A most crude civilization. When people were not civilized,

they used to do that. Civilization means you know, you must know how to live

very nicely. That is civilization. But they do not know even that. Simply

eating meat and wine, meat and wine, that's all. And this is going on as

civilization. They do not know what is the meaning of civilization. Na te

viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [sB 7.5.31]. Real civilization means to

understand God.

 

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