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| == Srimad-Bhagavatam ==
| | <div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2> |
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| === SB Canto 2 ===
| | <div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3> |
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| <span class="q_heading">''' The materialistic advancement of civilization is called "the civilization of the demons," which ultimately ends in wars and scarcity. The transcendentalist is specifically warned herewith to be fixed in mind, so that even if there is difficulty in plain living and high thinking he will not budge even an inch from his stark determination.'''</span>
| | <div id="SB223_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="43" link="SB 2.2.3" link_text=" |
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| <span class="SB-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:SB 2.2.
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| :etāṁ dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya | | :etāṁ dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya |
| :naṣṭātmāno 'lpa-buddhayaḥ | | :naṣṭātmāno 'lpa-buddhayaḥ |
| :prabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ | | :prabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ |
| :kṣayāya jagato 'hitāḥ | | :kṣayāya jagato 'hitāḥ |
| :[Bg. 16.9] | | :([[Vanisource:BG 16.9 (1972)|BG 16.9]]) |
| | | <p>"Following such conclusion, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world."</p> |
| "Following such conclusion, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world." | | <p>Prabhupāda: So work is required. But godly persons, they want to live a simple life and high thinking, save time for understanding of God. The demonic people, they are engaged in horrible activities.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: So work is required. But godly persons, they want to live a simple life and high thinking, save time for understanding of God. The demonic people, they are engaged in horrible activities.</span> | | </div> |
| | | <div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
| === 1974 Conversations and Morning Walks === | | </div> |
| | | <div id="MorningWalkMarch61974Mayapura_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="31" link="Morning Walk -- March 6, 1974, Mayapura" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 6, 1974, Mayapura"> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''India's culture is plain living, high thinking. You require some food. Produce food, and take it, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.'''</span> | | <div class="heading">India's culture is plain living, high thinking. You require some food. Produce food, and take it, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. |
| | | </div> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 6, 1974, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- March 6, 1974, Mayapura]]:''' | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 6, 1974, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- March 6, 1974, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Viṣṇujana: Prabhupāda, they say they've already done so much. The scientists will say...</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: What they have done? What they have done? Why people are starving? What you have done?</p> |
| Viṣṇujana: Prabhupāda, they say they've already done so much. The scientists will say... | | <p>Viṣṇujana: But they'll say we have created so much machineries and gone to the moon.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: You cannot eat machine. You produce. You produce rice, wheat in the machine. What you have done? You have simply misled the people that instead of tilling the ground, they have come to machine, and there is no food.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: What they have done? What they have done? Why people are starving? What you have done? | | <p>Siddha-svarūpānanda: Yes, yes.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: You have done this. You have, on the false plea that "We'll give you five hundred rupees salary. You come in the city and be engaged." Oh, he saw, "Oh, I am simply producing my food. If I get five hundred rupees, then I'll go to cinema, I'll have a good dress." Now there is no food even. You have done this. That's all. What is the benefit of this machine. Machine benefit is that we were purchasing, when there was no so much machine, in our childhood, three rupees, four annas per mound, first-class rice. Now we are purchasing one Kg.</p> |
| Viṣṇujana: But they'll say we have created so much machineries and gone to the moon. | | <p>Devotee: Ten rupees Kg. For one rupee (indistinct) first-class wheat.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: Just see. So if one is rascal, they will be misled by this. Otherwise, any sane man will not accept. They say that, "We have done so much." What you have done? You have done this. At least in India, the effect of machine and factories: that there is no rice, no food.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: You cannot eat machine. You produce. You produce rice, wheat in the machine. What you have done? You have simply misled the people that instead of tilling the ground, they have come to machine, and there is no food. | | <p>Devotee: With the machines they're mixing stones in the rice.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p> |
| Siddha-svarūpānanda: Yes, yes. | | <p>Devotee: With machine help, they're mixing stone in the rice.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: That's it. That's it, that you cannot get. Oh, you have done so much. But India is not meant for machine. These rascals, they do not know. India is, India's culture is plain living, high thinking. You require some food. Produce food, and take it, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. But they'll not accept, "Oh, this is primitive. Nowadays we have got... We must have the motor car, motor tire."</p> |
| Prabhupāda: You have done this. You have, on the false plea that "We'll give you five hundred rupees salary. You come in the city and be engaged." Oh, he saw, "Oh, I am simply producing my food. If I get five hundred rupees, then I'll go to cinema, I'll have a good dress." Now there is no food even. You have done this. That's all. What is the benefit of this machine. Machine benefit is that we were purchasing, when there was no so much machine, in our childhood, three rupees, four annas per mound, first-class rice. Now we are purchasing one Kg. | | </div> |
| | | </div> |
| Devotee: Ten rupees Kg. For one rupee (indistinct) first-class wheat. | | <div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: Just see. So if one is rascal, they will be misled by this. Otherwise, any sane man will not accept. They say that, "We have done so much." What you have done? You have done this. At least in India, the effect of machine and factories: that there is no rice, no food. | | <div id="RoomConversationOctober51975Mauritius_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="202" link="Room Conversation -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius"> |
| | | <div class="heading">This is Vedic civilization: plain living, high thinking. |
| Devotee: With the machines they're mixing stones in the rice. | | </div> |
| | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius|Room Conversation -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The idea which I am giving, you can start anywhere, anywhere, any part of the world. It doesn't matter. Locally you produce your own food. You get your own cloth. Have sufficient milk, vegetables. Then what you want more? And chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. This is Vedic civilization: plain living, high thinking. And poor thinking, poor in thought, poor in behavior, and living with motorcar and this, that, nonsense. It is all nonsense civilization. A first-class Rolls Royce car, and who is sitting there? A third-class negro. This is going on. You'll find these things in Europe and America. This is going on. A first-class car and a third-class negro. That's all.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: Eh? | | </div> |
| | | </div> |
| Devotee: With machine help, they're mixing stone in the rice. | | <div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: That's it. That's it, that you cannot get. Oh, you have done so much. But India is not meant for machine. These rascals, they do not know. India is, India's culture is plain living, high thinking. You require some food. Produce food, and take it, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. But they'll not accept, "Oh, this is primitive. Nowadays we have got... We must have the motor car, motor tire."</span> | | <div id="MorningWalkMay261976Honolulu_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="103" link="Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu"> |
| | | <div class="heading">Chanting produce plain living, high thinking. The modern leaders, they don't want. |
| === 1975 Conversations and Morning Walks === | | </div> |
| | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu|Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee (2): There were so many mangoes here that were dropping to the ground, and they've gotten rid of some of the mango trees because they said that the people were stopping on the side of the road picking up the mangoes, it was causing a traffic hazard.</p> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''This is Vedic civilization: plain living, high thinking. '''</span> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Causing what is that?</p> |
| | | <p>Devotee (2): They were causing traffic disturbance. So therefore they took away the mango trees. There were much more mango trees in Hawaii than there are now. Anyone could go and take mangoes off the ground.</p> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius|Room Conversation -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius]]:'''
| | <p>Prabhupāda: They don't want natural things.</p> |
| | | <p>Devotee: (indistinct)</p> |
| Prabhupāda: The idea which I am giving, you can start anywhere, anywhere, any part of the world. It doesn't matter. Locally you produce your own food. You get your own cloth. Have sufficient milk, vegetables. Then what you want more? And chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. This is Vedic civilization: plain living, high thinking. And poor thinking, poor in thought, poor in behavior, and living with motorcar and this, that, nonsense. It is all nonsense civilization. A first-class Rolls Royce car, and who is sitting there? A third-class negro. This is going on. You'll find these things in Europe and America. This is going on. A first-class car and a third-class negro. That's all.</span>
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Hmm. Chanting produce plain living, high thinking. The modern leaders, they don't want.</p> |
| | | <p>Hari-śauri: We're a threat to the society.</p> |
| === 1976 Conversations and Morning Walks === | | <p>Prabhupāda: Their policy is "High living and poor thinking." They live in skyscraper but don't care for where they are going to next life, as a cat and dog. Never mind.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''Chanting produce plain living, high thinking. The modern leaders, they don't want.'''</span> | | </div> |
| | | <div id="RoomConversationJune241976NewVrindaban_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="159" link="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban"> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu|Morning Walk -- May 26, 1976, Honolulu]]:''' | | <div class="heading">This project should be advanced-plain living, high thinking. |
| | | </div> |
| Devotee (2): There were so many mangoes here that were dropping to the ground, and they've gotten rid of some of the mango trees because they said that the people were stopping on the side of the road picking up the mangoes, it was causing a traffic hazard. | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: And still they are maintaining this farm.</p> |
| | | <p>Dhṛṣṭadyumna: And building very nice buildings.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: Causing what is that? | | <p>Prabhupāda: Hmm?</p> |
| | | <p>Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Very nice projects they are building.</p> |
| Devotee (2): They were causing traffic disturbance. So therefore they took away the mango trees. There were much more mango trees in Hawaii than there are now. Anyone could go and take mangoes off the ground. | | <p>Prabhupāda: This project should be advanced-plain living, high thinking.</p> |
| | | <p>Dhṛṣṭadyumna: I think we'll take around that film of New Vrindaban to all the colleges this year when we are preaching and show it to the students as our practical example.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: They don't want natural things. | | </div> |
| | | </div> |
| Devotee: (indistinct) | | <div id="RoomConversationJune241976NewVrindaban_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="159" link="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban"> |
| | | <div class="heading">Live in open place, produce your food grains, produce your milk, save time, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Plain living, high thinking, ideal life. |
| Prabhupāda: Hmm. Chanting produce plain living, high thinking. The modern leaders, they don't want. | | </div> |
| | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kulaśekhara: The country is more peaceful. It's easier to think of spiritual life.</p> |
| Hari-śauri: We're a threat to the society. | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Less disease. Less brain taxing. Everything is less. So balance time, utilize for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And if you have got temple, it is very happy life. Just for your food work little, and balance time engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is ideal life. Just see minute fibers on the flower. Can anyone manufacture this? So small fibers. And how brilliant it is. If you study only one flower, you become God conscious. There is a machine which we call nature. From that machine, everything is coming. But how machine is perfect? And who has discovered this machine?</p> |
| | | <p>Kulaśekhara: In London you said they do not know that the butterflies and flowers are painted, but Kṛṣṇa paints them with thought.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: Their policy is "High living and poor thinking." They live in skyscraper but don't care for where they are going to next life, as a cat and dog. Never mind.</span> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. How you can expect without painting it has come so beautiful? This is foolishness, "nature"—what is this nature? Everything is being done by the machine of Kṛṣṇa. Parāsya śaktir vividaiva śrūyate. Anyway, improve this mode of life. Live in open place, produce your food grains, produce your milk, save time, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Plain living, high thinking, ideal life. Artificial necessities of life do increase your so-called comforts, but if you forget your real business, that is suicidal. We want to stop this suicidal policy. We don't want to stop the modern advancement of technology, although the so-called advancement technology is suicidal. But we don't talk of this. (laughter) Caitanya Mahāprabhu has therefore given a simple formula-chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Even in your technological factories, you can chant. What is the wrong there? You go on pulling on with your machine and chant, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa.</p> |
| | | <p>Kīrtanānanda: They know that if people take up the chanting, gradually they will give up this technology.</p> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''This project should be advanced-plain living, high thinking.'''</span> | | <p>Prabhupāda: That is, of course.</p> |
| | | <p>Kīrtanānanda: You are actually putting the seeds of their destruction.</p> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]:'''
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. No, what is destruction? It is, rather, construction. (laughter) He'll live. He'll live forever. This is destruction. You have to change body. But our method, this tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). You don't get anymore material body. So that is saving.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: And still they are maintaining this farm.
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="RoomConversationJune241976NewVrindaban_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="159" link="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban"> |
| Dhṛṣṭadyumna: And building very nice buildings.
| | <div class="heading">If you can maintain a perfect community of plain living, high thinking, that is sufficient. |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: Hmm?
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Śrīla Prabhupāda, we can point out all the defects in their system but then they say "But there is no proof that such a perfect society has ever existed as you speak of. We have no evidence that such a perfect society exists."</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: You can see, come and see with us. Live in our New Vrindaban, you'll see.</p> |
| Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Very nice projects they are building.
| | <p>Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Then they say "Well, that is all right for you, but that is not practical for everyone."</p> |
| | | <p>Kīrtanānanda: Why not? We are human beings, and you are human being.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: This project should be advanced-plain living, high thinking.
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So what is not practical for you, our system, your system is also not practical for us. We cannot live in this way. Anyway, if you can maintain a perfect community of plain living, high thinking, that is sufficient. We do not canvass, but naturally they will see that this is convenient. After all, they are human beings. They are learning. So that is part of our business to preach, but to practice personally, that is our main business. To practice personally, that is our main business. Not that everyone will be preacher, but at least his own life be perfect.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Dhṛṣṭadyumna: I think we'll take around that film of New Vrindaban to all the colleges this year when we are preaching and show it to the students as our practical example.</span>
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="InterviewwithNewsdayNewspaperJuly141976NewYork_4" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="212" link="Interview with Newsday Newspaper -- July 14, 1976, New York" link_text="Interview with Newsday Newspaper -- July 14, 1976, New York"> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''Live in open place, produce your food grains, produce your milk, save time, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Plain living, high thinking, ideal life.'''</span> | | <div class="heading">Our devotees are instructed in that way, plain living, high thinking. |
| | | </div> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]:''' | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with Newsday Newspaper -- July 14, 1976, New York|Interview with Newsday Newspaper -- July 14, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Interviewer: Are they working farms, producing farms?</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there are many farms in your country. Just now I am coming from New Vrindāban in West Virginia. They are living. If you go sometime, you can see how independently they are living. And there are other farms, New Orleans, and just now we are going tomorrow...</p> |
| Kulaśekhara: The country is more peaceful. It's easier to think of spiritual life.
| | <p>Rāmeśvara: Pennsylvania.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: Pennsylvania. So we get enough milk, enough food grains, enough fruits. So there is no economic problem. Our purpose is to save time from unnecessary necessities of life, from unnecessary necessities of life, to save time and utilize the time for developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: Yes. Less disease. Less brain taxing. Everything is less. So balance time, utilize for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And if you have got temple, it is very happy life. Just for your food work little, and balance time engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is ideal life. Just see minute fibers on the flower. Can anyone manufacture this? So small fibers. And how brilliant it is. If you study only one flower, you become God conscious. There is a machine which we call nature. From that machine, everything is coming. But how machine is perfect? And who has discovered this machine? | | <p>Interviewer: Your devotees' health is looked after, then.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p> |
| Kulaśekhara: In London you said they do not know that the butterflies and flowers are painted, but Kṛṣṇa paints them with thought. | | <p>Interviewer: By who?</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: They are instructed in that way, plain living, high thinking.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: Yes. How you can expect without painting it has come so beautiful? This is foolishness, "nature"—what is this nature? Everything is being done by the machine of Kṛṣṇa. Parāsya śaktir vividaiva śrūyate. Anyway, improve this mode of life. Live in open place, produce your food grains, produce your milk, save time, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Plain living, high thinking, ideal life. Artificial necessities of life do increase your so-called comforts, but if you forget your real business, that is suicidal. We want to stop this suicidal policy. We don't want to stop the modern advancement of technology, although the so-called advancement technology is suicidal. But we don't talk of this. (laughter) Caitanya Mahāprabhu has therefore given a simple formula-chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Even in your technological factories, you can chant. What is the wrong there? You go on pulling on with your machine and chant, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa. | | </div> |
| | | </div> |
| Kīrtanānanda: They know that if people take up the chanting, gradually they will give up this technology.
| | <div id="RoomConversationNovember131976Vrndavana_5" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="331" link="Room Conversation -- November 13, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- November 13, 1976, Vrndavana"> |
| | | <div class="heading">Our "plain living, high thinking" is very nice idea. |
| Prabhupāda: That is, of course. | | </div> |
| | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- November 13, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- November 13, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Surabhi: No, Washington, D.C. That's in America. They invited one of our devotees there to discuss this Māyāpura and all this social type of... Dharmādhyakṣa. He's writing for that Back to Godhead magazine. He worked with Gurudāsa together.</p> |
| Kīrtanānanda: You are actually putting the seeds of their destruction.
| | <p>Prabhupāda: His article, one is there?</p> |
| | | <p>Hari-śauri: Yes, "Simple Living High Thinking." You saw that.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: Yes. No, what is destruction? It is, rather, construction. (laughter) He'll live. He'll live forever. This is destruction. You have to change body. But our method, this tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. You don't get anymore material body. So that is saving.</span>
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So he met him.</p> |
| | | <p>Surabhi: Not Carter. He met the government officials who were representing the United States Government at that exhibition, and they were very favorable. They were one of the most favorable, he said, the United states.</p> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''If you can maintain a perfect community of plain living, high thinking, that is sufficient.'''</span>
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, our "plain living, high thinking" is very nice idea.</p> |
| | | <p>Hari-śauri: Actually it's the only practical solution.</p> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]:'''
| | </div> |
| | | </div> |
| Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Śrīla Prabhupāda, we can point out all the defects in their system but then they say "But there is no proof that such a perfect society has ever existed as you speak of. We have no evidence that such a perfect society exists."
| | <div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: You can see, come and see with us. Live in our New Vrindaban, you'll see. | | <div id="RoomConversationJanuary291977Bhuvanesvara_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="64" link="Room Conversation -- January 29, 1977, Bhuvanesvara" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 29, 1977, Bhuvanesvara"> |
| | | <div class="heading">You can make home. Where is the scarcity? Plain living, high thinking, and prepare for next life. Go back home, back to Godhead. Finish this hellish life of repeated birth and death. |
| Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Then they say "Well, that is all right for you, but that is not practical for everyone."
| | </div> |
| | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 29, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- January 29, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So if you can educate people, they will be united. This is actually united nations movement. Actually see how these Europeans, Americans, and Africans, and others, without any artificial allurement, how we are keeping together. Nobody is dissatisfied with humble eating, humble living, humbly, plain living. So it is possible. There is possibility. We live simple life, high thinking-United Nation. We can possibly... And there will be no scarcity. If we live simple life with Kṛṣṇa conscious thinking, There will be no scarcity.</p> |
| Kīrtanānanda: Why not? We are human beings, and you are human being.
| | <p>Hari-śauri: Just like India has so many villages. Because they are living simply, then there's enough for everyone.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: No scarcity. Population increasing? You increase your food. So much land everywhere vacant, all over the world. But that they will not do. They will keep the cattles and eat. Cattle also, they want vegetables. Otherwise where you'll get cattle? But therefore in Bhagavad-gītā, annād bhavanti bhūtāni ([[Vanisource:BG 3.14 (1972)|BG 3.14]]). Produce food grains. Just like this is. How nice it is, from paddy. So you take the paddies, rice, eat, and the grass you can utilize in so many ways. Anywhere you can till the ground, you get paddy and the grass. Make your cottage. So shelter is there. And the animals also like this grass. You can make home. Where is the scarcity? Plain living, high thinking, and prepare for next life. Go back home, back to Godhead. Finish this hellish life of repeated birth and death. There is no knowledge. And when we try to give them this knowledge, they say, "You are brainwashed. You have imported some new way of life, style of life. Brainwash." So our European, American devotees, they like rice? No.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: So what is not practical for you, our system, your system is also not practical for us. We cannot live in this way. Anyway, if you can maintain a perfect community of plain living, high thinking, that is sufficient. We do not canvass, but naturally they will see that this is convenient. After all, they are human beings. They are learning. So that is part of our business to preach, but to practice personally, that is our main business. To practice personally, that is our main business. Not that everyone will be preacher, but at least his own life be perfect.</span>
| | <p>Hari-śauri: Yes.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''Our devotees are instructed in that way, plain living, high thinking.'''</span> | | </div> |
| | | <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Interview with Newsday Newspaper -- July 14, 1976, New York|Interview with Newsday Newspaper -- July 14, 1976, New York]]:''' | | </div> |
| | | <div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3> |
| Interviewer: Are they working farms, producing farms?
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="LettertoMukundaLosAngeles18February1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="68" link="Letter to Mukunda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Mukunda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1968"> |
| Prabhupāda: Yes, there are many farms in your country. Just now I am coming from New Vrindāban in West Virginia. They are living. If you go sometime, you can see how independently they are living. And there are other farms, New Orleans, and just now we are going tomorrow... | | <div class="heading">Our motto is simple living, high thinking; we should think of Krishna without being hampered by material disturbances, as far as possible. |
| | | </div> |
| Rāmeśvara: Pennsylvania.
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mukunda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1968|Letter to Mukunda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have already instructed Jayananda not to occupy the storefront in Berkeley if it is too much risky. We should not accept anything very risky because that will hamper us in our program of Krishna Consciousness. Our motto is simple living, high thinking; we should think of Krishna without being hampered by material disturbances, as far as possible. So too much risky thing is not for us. If something comes very easily for our manipulation we welcome it. You have got already a center in S.F. so it is better to make propaganda so that people may come there in throngs. Gargamuni can make this propaganda by sellng Back To Godheads. Personally, I shall advise you to try for our own temple, either in S.F. or in L.A.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: Pennsylvania. So we get enough milk, enough food grains, enough fruits. So there is no economic problem. Our purpose is to save time from unnecessary necessities of life, from unnecessary necessities of life, to save time and utilize the time for developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all. | | </div> |
| | | <div id="LettertoHayagrivaMontreal14June1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="200" link="Letter to Hayagriva -- Montreal 14 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hayagriva -- Montreal 14 June, 1968"> |
| Interviewer: Your devotees' health is looked after, then.
| | <div class="heading">New Vrindaban may be an ideal village where the residents will have plain living and high thinking. |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: Yes.
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hayagriva -- Montreal 14 June, 1968|Letter to Hayagriva -- Montreal 14 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So, if you seriously want to convert this new spot as New Vrindaban, I shall advise you not to make it very much modernized. But as you are American boys, you must make it just suitable to your minimum needs. Not to make it too much luxurious as generally Europeans and Americans are accustomed. Better to live there without modern amenities. But to live a natural healthy life for executing Krishna Consciousness. It may be an ideal village where the residents will have plain living and high thinking. For plain living we must have sufficient land for raising crops and pasturing grounds for the cows. If there is sufficient grains and production of milk, then the whole economic problem is solved. You do not require any machines, cinema, hotels, slaughterhouses, brothels, nightclubs—all these modern amenities. People in the spell of maya are trying to squeeze out gross pleasure from the senses, which is not possible to derive to our heart's content. Therefore we are confused and baffled in our attempt to eschew eternal pleasure from gross matter. Actually, joyful life is on the spiritual platform, therefore we should try to save our valuable time from material activities and engage them for Krishna Consciousness. But at the same time, because we have to keep our body and soul together to execute our mission, we must have sufficient (not extravagant) food to eat, and that will be supplied by grains, fruits, and milk. So if you can develop this place to that ideal life and the residents become ideal Krishna Conscious men, in that part of your country, I think not only many philosophically minded people will be attracted, but they will be benefited also.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Interviewer: By who?
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3> |
| Prabhupāda: They are instructed in that way, plain living, high thinking.</span>
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="LettertoNevatiajiLosAngeles16July1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="429" link="Letter to Nevatiaji -- Los Angeles 16 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Nevatiaji -- Los Angeles 16 July, 1970"> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''Our "plain living, high thinking" is very nice idea.'''</span>
| | <div class="heading">This natural environment for living in pure Krsna consciousness or plain living and high thinking develops the spiritual character of the inhabitants and especially the Society's children who are conceived, born, raised and educated in Krsna science or natural spiritual consciousness. |
| | | </div> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- November 13, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- November 13, 1976, Vrndavana]]:'''
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nevatiaji -- Los Angeles 16 July, 1970|Letter to Nevatiaji -- Los Angeles 16 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">New Vrndavana, a transcendental community project, modeled on the Vrndavana site of Lord Krsna's pastimes, is developing nicely in the mountains of West Virginia. The primary message of Lord Krsna to surrender all one's activities unto Him, that is to carry out one's duty for the sake of Krsna, as it is delivered in the Bhagavad-gita is practically undertaken in New Vrndavana. All work in Vrndavana is specifically executed in full knowledge of its being transcendental loving service to Krsna the supreme proprietor of everything and all souls. This natural environment for living in pure Krsna consciousness or plain living and high thinking develops the spiritual character of the inhabitants and especially the Society's children who are conceived, born, raised and educated in Krsna science or natural spiritual consciousness. New Vrndavana school system provides education for children which is both practical and spiritual.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Surabhi: No, Washington, D.C. That's in America. They invited one of our devotees there to discuss this Māyāpura and all this social type of... Dharmādhyakṣa. He's writing for that Back to Godhead magazine. He worked with Gurudāsa together.
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3> |
| Prabhupāda: His article, one is there?
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="LettertoHladiniCalcutta28January1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="43" link="Letter to Hladini -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Hladini -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973"> |
| Hari-śauri: Yes, "Simple Living High Thinking." You saw that.
| | <div class="heading">You are actually learning in New Vrindaban the self-sufficient mode of living, simple living, high thinking, that is our policy, and as long as Krsna remains in the center of all these activities, then you are actually in Vrindaban. |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: So he met him.
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hladini -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973|Letter to Hladini -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is so nice to see how enthusiastic you are in executing this process of devotional service and how much you like your engagement there in New Vrindaban. So you continue in this way, always thinking of Krsna, chanting 16 rounds, reading the books, and doing your daily chores all on behalf of Krsna. As your devotional service becomes mature you shall see Krsna more and more, and more and more you shall realize the qualities of the holy land of Vraja. This modern civilization is always artificial. You are actually learning in New Vrindaban the self-sufficient mode of living, simple living, high thinking, that is our policy, and as long as Krsna remains in the center of all these activities, then you are actually in Vrindaban. And the more you please the Deities there with your service, the more they shall reciprocate by bestowing upon you love for Sri Sri Radha Krsna. So I am always looking forward to coming back to New Vrindaban, and I remember very fondly the sandesh, milk, and other nice products that the devotees are preparing there. Thank you very much.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Surabhi: Not Carter. He met the government officials who were representing the United States Government at that exhibition, and they were very favorable. They were one of the most favorable, he said, the United states.
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3> |
| Prabhupāda: Yes, our "plain living, high thinking" is very nice idea.
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="LettertoKirtirajaBombay12January1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="45" link="Letter to Kirtiraja -- Bombay 12 January, 1975" link_text="Letter to Kirtiraja -- Bombay 12 January, 1975"> |
| Hari-śauri: Actually it's the only practical solution.</span>
| | <div class="heading">Our philosophy is "simple living and high thinking"—not sense gratification. The temple presidents and leaders (elder students) must show this by example. |
| | | </div> |
| === 1977 Conversations and Morning Walks ===
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtiraja -- Bombay 12 January, 1975|Letter to Kirtiraja -- Bombay 12 January, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Any householder devotee who is working full-time (with his wife) as a sankirtana book distributer, of temple managerial duties, artist, cook, etc. shall be provided food, shelter, and other bare minimum necessities by the temple itself. They should not cook their own meals separate from the temple meals. If they have children, then some minimal allowance may be given according to the number of children. If they want anything extra or over and above what the temple president sees as absolute necessity, then they should work outside—the temple cannot pay for anything beyond the bare necessities. And definitely, the BBT cannot pay any salary to anybody. Our philosophy is "simple living and high thinking"—not sense gratification. The temple presidents and leaders (elder students) must show this by example. Temple or asrama means for renunciation and renounced persons. If one is engaged in self-realization process, then his material necessities become almost nil. Persons who do not like this can work outside.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| <span class="q_heading">'''You can make home. Where is the scarcity? Plain living, high thinking, and prepare for next life. Go back home, back to Godhead. Finish this hellish life of repeated birth and death.'''</span> | | </div> |
| | | <div id="LettertoRadhaKrishnaDhawanHonolulu10June1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="322" link="Letter to Radha Krishna Dhawan -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975" link_text="Letter to Radha Krishna Dhawan -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975"> |
| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 29, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- January 29, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]:''' | | <div class="heading">We are trying to set a perfect example according to the Bhagavad-gita as it is, how to execute simple living and high thinking. |
| | | </div> |
| Prabhupāda: So if you can educate people, they will be united. This is actually united nations movement. Actually see how these Europeans, Americans, and Africans, and others, without any artificial allurement, how we are keeping together. Nobody is dissatisfied with humble eating, humble living, humbly, plain living. So it is possible. There is possibility. We live simple life, high thinking-United Nation. We can possibly... And there will be no scarcity. If we live simple life with Kṛṣṇa conscious thinking, There will be no scarcity.
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Radha Krishna Dhawan -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975|Letter to Radha Krishna Dhawan -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, we are trying to set a perfect example according to the Bhagavad-gita as it is, how to execute simple living and high thinking. We are not interested in any material comforts of life which are limited and temporary. We are interested in solving the real problems of life, birth, death, old-age, and disease. These problems must be solved, and Krishna gives the formula in the Bhagavad-gita. So, we are preaching that simple formula given by Krishna, and people are trying it and finding real happiness in life, therefore the Hare Krishna movement is an undeniable success. Everyone is accepting. I am very glad that you are also accepting. Please visit our temple there in Juhu as much as possible, and try to read our books. We have many books, about 50 400 pages long each, as well as many smaller ones. Study this movement carefully and you will find it very rewarding.</p> |
| | | </div> |
| Hari-śauri: Just like India has so many villages. Because they are living simply, then there's enough for everyone.
| | </div> |
| | | <div id="LettertoGirirajaDetroit4August1975_2" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="446" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975"> |
| Prabhupāda: No scarcity. Population increasing? You increase your food. So much land everywhere vacant, all over the world. But that they will not do. They will keep the cattles and eat. Cattle also, they want vegetables. Otherwise where you'll get cattle? But therefore in Bhagavad-gītā, annād bhavanti bhūtāni [Bg. 3.14]. Produce food grains. Just like this is. How nice it is, from paddy. So you take the paddies, rice, eat, and the grass you can utilize in so many ways. Anywhere you can till the ground, you get paddy and the grass. Make your cottage. So shelter is there. And the animals also like this grass. You can make home. Where is the scarcity? Plain living, high thinking, and prepare for next life. Go back home, back to Godhead. Finish this hellish life of repeated birth and death. There is no knowledge. And when we try to give them this knowledge, they say, "You are brainwashed. You have imported some new way of life, style of life. Brainwash." So our European, American devotees, they like rice? No.
| | <div class="heading">The total scheme is for simple life and high thinking and exalted character of the human society. |
| | | </div> |
| Hari-śauri: Yes.</span>
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975|Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The idea is that local inhabitants will be satisfied with their bare necessities of life and their attention will be diverted towards spiritual development of life. That is the aim of human birth. We are trying this also in Africa, and it is partially successful. The whole scheme is that if a man becomes a devotee all good qualities inherent in him become manifest, whereas a person without being a devotee even though he has so-called academic qualifications, he will remain on the mental platform and will again be brought to the material field of activities which will always bring dissatisfaction. The total scheme is for simple life and high thinking and exalted character of the human society. As a matter of fact all of our members refrain from eating meat, gambling, intoxication, and illicit sex. In this connection Prof. J. Stillson Judah of the University of California, Berkeley, has remarked, "Krishna consciousness has transformed lives from drug addicted hippies to loving servants of Krishna and humanity."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoRupanugaNewDelhi21August1975_3" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="472" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975"> |
| | <div class="heading">Develop the farm in New York nicely. Show by example what it means plain living and high thinking. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975|Letter to Rupanuga -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the Washington temple why are you selling the present building? Why are you changing it? We are not businessmen that we sell for profit and then move the Deity. Develop the farm in New York nicely. Show by example what it means plain living and high thinking. Regarding the letter to the lawyer, I have heard from Brahmananda Swami that the lawyers did not like the letter and threatened to Ramesvara that if it was not retracted then they would bring suit. So if necessary then retract it. Do not write in a way to accuse them. Just terminate their service. So after retracting, then write a new one.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJayatirthaBombay20November1975_4" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="701" link="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 20 November, 1975" link_text="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 20 November, 1975"> |
| | <div class="heading">Whatever is suitable, that you should do. This is the meaning of plain living and high thinking. If the chanting of Hare Krsna is not there, then there will not be any high thinking. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 20 November, 1975|Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 20 November, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the Vancouver farm, yes, the log cabin type structure you have mentioned, that is nice. Whatever is suitable, that you should do. This is the meaning of plain living and high thinking. If the chanting of Hare Krsna is not there, then there will not be any high thinking.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoDharmadhyaksaHonolulu29May1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="315" link="Letter to Dharmadhyaksa -- Honolulu 29 May, 1976" link_text="Letter to Dharmadhyaksa -- Honolulu 29 May, 1976"> |
| | <div class="heading">I am in due receipt of your "Simple Living and High Thinking" magazine. The article is very well-written and convincing. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dharmadhyaksa -- Honolulu 29 May, 1976|Letter to Dharmadhyaksa -- Honolulu 29 May, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your "Simple Living and High Thinking" magazine. The article is very well-written and convincing. Thank you very much.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoMrHunterLosAngeles5June1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="328" link="Letter to Mr. Hunter -- Los Angeles 5 June, 1976" link_text="Letter to Mr. Hunter -- Los Angeles 5 June, 1976"> |
| | <div class="heading">We are trying to construct a city where people from all over the world can come to visit and live according to the Vedic tenets of "simple living and high thinking." |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Hunter -- Los Angeles 5 June, 1976|Letter to Mr. Hunter -- Los Angeles 5 June, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter with enclosed contribution towards the development of our Mayapur City in W. Bengal, and I thank you very much. We are trying to construct a city where people from all over the world can come to visit and live according to the Vedic tenets of "simple living and high thinking." I am pleased to hear that you appreciative of our humble efforts and if you would like to contribute in the future towards this great spiritual city you can send your contributions to me care of:</p> |
| | <p>Hare Krishna Land,</p> |
| | <p>Juhu Road, Juhu,</p> |
| | <p>Bombay 400-054, India</p> |
| | <p>I am enclosing one copy of our latest issue of Back-to Godhead magazine as you mentioned you have read some of our past issues. I hope that this meets you in good health.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |