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<div class="heading">I understand that instead of growing food grains, you are growing sugar cane for exporting. Why? And you are dependent on food grains, on rice, wheat, dahl. Why? Why this attempt? You first of all grow your own eatables. And if there is time and if your population has got sufficient food grains, then you can try to grow other fruits and vegetables for exporting. The first necessity is that you should be self-sufficient. That is God's arrangement.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.5.30 -- Mauritius, October 2, 1975|Lecture on SB 7.5.30 -- Mauritius, October 2, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So I see in your this Mauritius land, you have got enough land to produce food grains. So you produce food grain. I understand that instead of growing food grains, you are growing sugarcane for exporting. Why? And you are dependent on food grains, on rice, wheat, ''ḍāl''. Why? Why this attempt? You first of all grow your own eatables. And if there is time and if your population has got sufficient food grains, then you can try to grow other fruits and vegetables for exporting. The first necessity is that you should be self-sufficient. That is God's arrangement. Everywhere there is sufficient land to produce food grains. Not only in your country; I have traveled all over the world—Africa, Australia, and other, in America also. There are so much land vacant that if we produce food grain, then we can feed ten times as much population as at the present moment. There is no question of scarcity. The whole creation is so made by Kṛṣṇa that everything is ''pūrṇam'', complete. ''Pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate, pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate'' ([[Vanisource:ISO Invocation|Īśo Invocation]]). If we don't produce food grain—you require it—and put unnecessarily men into scarcity, that is sinful. That is sinful. 

Everything, every instruction for our happy life and to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and make life perfect . . . unfortunately, we do not know what is the perfect life. Therefore it is said here, ''punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām'' ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30]]): "Chewing the chewed." If we don't make our life perfect . . . perfect means stop this business of chewing the chewed. ''Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām''. Now, suppose we have got this human form of life. Now, by our pious activities we may be elevated to the higher planetary system, Svargaloka, heavenly planet. But what we shall gain there? The same sense gratification in higher standard, that's all. Just like sense gratification is there in the society of the cats and dogs, sense gratification is there in one country, in another country, but the arrangement is . . . may be, little different. But the pleasure of sense gratification is the same, either you enjoy it as a dog, as a human being or as a demigod. The sense gratification pleasure is not different. It is the same. 
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