Spiritual degradation manifests when society abandons grain cultivation for intoxicants; kirtana and prasada distribution transform hearts.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — December 26, 1975, Sanand 751226MW-SANAND [06:00 Minutes] Walk_751226MW-SANAND Prabhupāda: How degraded they have become. There is no food, and they are busy for growing tobacco. Hari-śauri: You say that's what they call a cash crop.
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Hari-śauri: The other day.
Prabhupāda: Now eat cash. So cash is also paper. So what is the use of laboring so hard? You eat paper.
Paper is available. Yaśomatīnandana: It is prohibited to buy gold at that temple.
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Yaśomatīnandana: You cannot buy gold. Government has prohibited.
Prabhupāda: Because you are rascal, your government is rascal. Democracy. What is the government? Government means your replica.
So why do you blame the government? You are fools, rascals; you send other fools and rascals and suffer consequence. Tea, growing tobacco, growing jute, and no grains. And grain for the animal, so that animal, as soon as it becomes fatty, send it to the slaughterhouse, and then finish business.