Morning Walk

Farm Crops and Cows Serve Deities, Simple Rural Life Contrasts City Hell

📅 July 31, 1976 📍 New Mayapur ⏱ 7 min
Rural farming life centered on Deity service transcends the hellish congestion of cities through honest work and cow protection.
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Prabhupāda: Oh. Viśvambhara: ...they produce a type of nut [chestnut].

Prabhupāda: Who eats that? Viśvambhara: We can eat. We roast in the oven. It is very good, offer it to the Deities.

Prabhupāda: [break] ...a small potato, in the śukta you gave it? Harikeśa: No, that was radish. Viśvambhara: See from the garden many tomatoes and squash. Cauliflower is coming also.

Prabhupāda: ...a large stock of water. Viśvambhara: Yes. There is lots of water underground, but it requires great equipment to bring it up in order to water all the land.

Prabhupāda: What is the difficulty? Viśvambhara: We have only the previous pump, which was here before, and it's not strong enough to water everything. So we need to install a new pump to get more water.

Prabhupāda: This land ours? Hari-śauri: Yes. Where that hump is on the brown field, up to that, where that tree is. But most of our land extends this way.

Bhagavān: Our land is mostly here. Viśvambhara: We have just taken barley from this field, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Many grains.

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