No need to go anywhere-live locally and grow your own food-SP
Prabhupada proves it can be done-even the eskimos dont have cars and live in ice houses.
May 28, 1974, Rome
Dhanañjaya: In Greenland?
Prabhupāda: Others cannot live locally.
Satsvarūpa: That’s not their karma?
Prabhupāda: 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?
Satsvarūpa: 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.
Prabhupāda: 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.
Dhanañjaya: But people say they travel for education.
Prabhupāda: What education? Hippies? Your education has ended into hippies. Finish that education, nonsense education. Now, you have seen in Harmonist that the school children, they are having sex intercourse publicly, and they are running naked in America. Is it not?
Satsvarūpa: Yes It’s a very big thing now, running naked.
Dhanañjaya: It’s called “streaking.“
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, the nonsense education, result is like that. Is that education? I first, when I saw in Honolulu University—all hippies, all the students, half naked and niggardly dressed. Why so many? They are all students. You see? It has become a fashion. This is the education. And one commissioner has… You have not seen our Harmonist prepared. Collapse.
Satsvarūpa: I saw it yesterday. The president of Temple University, he said this was good, this running naked.
Prabhupāda: And another has that “education has collapsed.”
Dhanañjaya: They have lost all sense of moral values.
Prabhupāda: Animals. The whole material civilization is based on animalism. Therefore now they are coming as naked animals. The basic principle of the civilization is animalism. Now… It was covered by the progress of time. Now they are coming to be naked animals, that’s all.
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►740525mw.rom Conversations Prabhupada: Stick to your own place and grow your food. There is no question of transport. Little transport is required, that bullock cart. Krsna was being carried on bullock cart. There is no use of petrol. Use simply the bull. They are already there. Utilize them.
►740524r2.rom Conversations … Yes, naturally. If this man is fed up with this industry, he can go back to village and produce his own food. But he is attached to this industrial activity because he is thinking that “We are getting more money for wine and woman and meat. Let me enjoy.” That is the perfect, imp… But if he chants Hare Krsna maha-mantra, his consciousness will be purified and he will be made not interested this kind of work. He will go back to village and produce food.
►740525mw.romConversations Prabhupada: Yes, that was Gandhi’s philosophy, village organization. These people, they are attracting villagers to work in the factory, and they are exploiting them…. our philosophy. Make your life successful. By becoming Krsna conscious, you become free from all these troubles of material condition. This is our education. Don’t be after these motorcars, television, and all nonsense things, sporting, wine, women. Don’t be after these. Simply eat sufficiently, keep your health nicely, chant Hare Krsna, realize Krsna, and go back to home This is our philosophy…
►740527mw.rom Conversations … Keep amongst yourself and produce. Produce food grain, produce cotton, mustard seed Self dependent, no use… And we don’t require motorcar. Bullock cart is sufficient. There is no need of going anywhere…
Some Conclusions-why don’t the devotees pick up on this important message repeated so many times by Srila Prabhupada?
Don’t worry you wont have to drive a bullock cart into town like the Amish do in their communities as that concept is still far far away from most us.
But what is do-able is to move out of the hellish huge cities, buy some land with a house on it and begin growing your own food supply. We have a couple of local cities/towns close by us where some 6,000 or up to 30,000 people live and work-and the agricultural land is right there next to these cities. So one does not have to “cut the cord” right off, but can live very nicely nearby these small towns as do thousands of others at present and make a go of it-just like the eskimos-they live locally and so can we
Hare Krsna
damaghosa das
