Jun3 27 1976 New Vrndavana
Brahmanas ascting as vaisyas when nobody can do it
Prabhupāda: Muci, yes. Their business is shoe maker. So when the cow is dead, they take it, they eat the meat and take the skin and the hoof. They make business without any, what is called, investment. Harer nāma [Ādi 17.21]. That is economic. He gets the skin without any price, and he makes shoes and gets full profit. But that is for a class of men, not for all. Economic gain for a cobbler is not the economic gain for a brāhmaṇa. “One man’s food another man’s poison.”
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Is considered, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that when a brāhmaṇa is engaged in the activities of plowing and cultivating, that he has become a vaiśya?
Prabhupāda: No. If there is nobody to help, he can do.
Hari-śauri: As long as he keeps up his brahminical standards.
Prabhupāda: Huh? Yes. This is our car?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
….Prabhupāda: Hmm. Now wherefrom this fragrance have come?
Devotees: From the earth.
Prabhupāda: Get out this fragrance from earth, you scientist. By Kṛṣṇa’s manipulation here is fragrance. Everyone knows it has come from earth. If there is, in the earth, there is no such fragrance, wherefrom it came? So therefore it is there, it is understood, but you get it out.
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Well, we can take the chemicals and mix them, produce fragrance.
Prabhupāda: Take the chemicals?
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Yes. We can analyze the chemical structure and make…
Prabhupāda: No, the flower has taken directly, without any chemical addition. You do that. It is a fact the flavor is there within the earth, you take the flavor, extract the flavor. Not only this flavor, there are different flavors, all, everything there. There are so many flowers coming out. Huh? Sarva-kāma dugha-mahī. Mahī means earth. Everything’s coming out from the earth. But not in your attempt. It is Kṛṣṇa’s attempt that He can take out. Out of so many different flavors, everything is there within the earth, but Kṛṣṇa’s manipulation takes the different colors, different flavors, different bodies, everything. That is Kṛṣṇa’s manipulation. Mayādhyakṣeṇa [Bg. 9.10]. Just like in our kitchen we have got the ingredients, rice, dahl, āṭṭā, ghee. But the expert can prepare hundreds of preparations. That expert is Kṛṣṇa. And if one is not expert, even the ingredients are there, he’ll spoil everything. He’ll mix the āṭṭā with water then put ghee and then put rice. (laughter) This is the… We have to become expert. If you become expert, then you’ll do very nice purī, dahl, rice, ah… There are so many varieties. You enjoy. And if you are not expert, you’ll spoil. So Kṛṣṇa is expert and Kṛṣṇa bhakta is expert because he takes lessons from Kṛṣṇa. So for them this is not mithyā. Rascals who spoil it, they think it is mithyā. He could not do anything. He mix with a conglomeration, and because he could not get any result, he said mithyā, disappointment. And one who knows, he knows how to utilize it. Just like we are utilizing the cows in so many nice preparations, and these rascals killing them. Finished
…”The brāhmaṇa is thinking, “I am brāhmaṇa.” And the land is lying fallow.“
March 12 1974 Vrndavana
Prabhupadas:….As we are making counterpropaganda against māyā, the māyā is also very strong. She will also make propaganda against you, very strong. So unless you become very sincere devotee, daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā [Bg. 7.14], then it will not be possible to conquer over māyā. You’ll be succumbed. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [break] …taranti te, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. In India the, the brāhmaṇa class, they say, “Oh, I am born in brāhmaṇa family. Why shall I do this work?” You see. Therefore the whole society has gone to hell. In your country still, they accept any kind of work. It doesn’t matter. And here, in India, if he happens to be a brāhmaṇa, he’ll not take any kind of work. Means… Just like plowing. He’ll not agree. Therefore so much land. The kṣatriya is thinking, “I am kṣatriya.” The brāhmaṇa is thinking, “I am brāhmaṇa.” And the land is lying fallow. There is no production. He will go to the office and fight with the pen as a kṣatriya. And instead of studying Vedas, he’ll study the rules and regulations given by the office. But he’ll not come to plow. Therefore this scarcity of food. He’ll go to a mill to work as ordinary laborer. (Hindi) He’ll not come. So much land we see lying unutilized. And they’re crying for grain. Why? The same example. I was writing that in New York City, the whole city is full of dirty things, garbage, for want of cleaners, and you go to the Central Park, you’ll find so many hippies are lying down idle
Some Conclusions–Above we see that a devotee who is a brahmana by quality can act like a Vaisya if there is nobody to do that service, but as SP says he still is a brahmana. So there are many devotees who think it is beneath them as “brahmanas” to touch the plow, and get their hands dirty. But here we have the proof to the contrary. But a brahmana will never work as a sudra and work for others.
Hare Krsna
damaghosa das
Below we have some shots I just took of our greenhouse ready to go for spring and summer time plants. There are already two sections of sweet peas coming up next to those steel wire meshes. When those are almost finished the tomatoes will be planted in all 4 beds and with peppers lining the middle isle.
Presto !!-hundreds of tomatoes growing-all by Krsnas artistry-and all from- DIRT
this is what it looks like right now…
Soon that barren garden of dirt –will look like this below!! More Krsna magic
Every year me wife and I look forward to watching this “miracle” unfold right before our eyes.
Once when in college my biology professor told me -nobody really understands how things grow, they just give it some high sounding names to “explain” what they do not understand unfolding right before them
garden video of our 3 gardens for Govinda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6nYbexcEM
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