Localized, Krishna conscious communities with simple living solve all material problems while restoring spiritual purpose.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — May 27, 1974, Rome 740527MW-ROME [44:23 Minutes] Walk_740527MW-ROME Prabhupāda: So we can discuss some of the problems, about the problems. Discuss what are the problems. Bhagavān: Now? We shall discuss now?
Prabhupāda: Yes. We are going to solve all problems. Let us have some preliminary discussions how we are going to solve. Bhagavān: The biggest problem now is that they have built up a type of society in which their needs are all coming from petrol energy.
To produce what they need today is all coming from this petrol energy...
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Bhagavān: ...which is..., which they are importing basically from the Saudi Arabian countries.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Bhagavān: Now, recently, in the last war in the Middle East, Saudi Arabians raised the price of the oil over double now, I think, as a pressure to the Western countries to do things in their favor. Now they realized that the market for oil is in such great demand that they don't have to lower the price after the war, but they are going to keep the price. And actually, the price is still increasing.
Prabhupāda: So this problem will be solved as soon as we are localized. Petrol is required for transport, but if you are localized, there is no question of transport; you don't require petrol. Suppose in New Vrindaban we stay, we don't go anywhere. Then where is the need of petrol?
Bhagavān: Petrol they also use for heating and electricity. Prabhupāda: No, heating..., heating we can do by wood, by nature. Dhanañjaya: I remember, [indistinct] Prabhupāda, you were saying that all you require is some oxen, and the oxen can carry. Prabhupāda: Yes. The oxen will problem..., will solve the problem of transport. That bullock cart. Just like Kṛṣṇa, when He was transferred from Gokula to Nandagrāma, so they took all the bullock carts, and within a few hours they transported them, the whole thing, their luggage, family member, everything. Bhagavān: How far can a bullock cart travel in one day? Prabhupāda: At least ten miles, very easily, very easily.