Farm community

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"farm communities" |"farm community" |"farming communities" |"farming community"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

A devotee had an opportunity to see a (indistinct) farm community, and he was talking to one of the boys there about Kṛṣṇa consciousness

Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban:

Dhṛṣtadyumna: "Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work."

Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean to keep a set of men lazy, who cannot work. That is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everyone must work to his capacity. Prescribed duties. They accuse us that we are escaping. Huh? What is that? We do not escape. We are always busy.

Devotee: Recently I had an opportunity to see a (indistinct) farm community, and I was talking to one of the boys there about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and they said "You are under Swami Prabhupāda." They said, "We have never seen Prabhupāda smile." I told them that "Yes, birth, death, disease, and old age are nothing to smile about."