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Farm Living Establishes Spiritual Communities, Bare Living Protects Youth

📅 January 4, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 12 min
Simple farming and cow protection establish spiritual communities that save youth from industrial exploitation and hellish city life.
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Prabhupāda: That should be stressed. First business is the neighboring village people, they should come, chant and take prasādam. And gradually, when they become interested, then they come, live with us, work with us. In this way they should be induced, bare living and chanting. Jagadīśa: As in Hyderabad. Prabhupāda: Huh? Jagadīśa: As in Hyderabad. Prabhupāda: Yes.

Then our movement is success. Our only motive is how people become interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We have no other motive, no economic problem. Economic problem is...

What is economic problem? We produce our own food and cloth—bare living—and spiritual life. On the farm it is easier. And if they are dispatched to the city for livelihood, there are big, big roads and big, big cars and big, big anxieties.

Then wine, meat and so on, so on.... Suicide. Their spiritual life finished. These rascals are protesting. They have no ideas of spiritual life.

They think this is life—to be merry, enjoy and drink: "Eat. Drink. Be merry." How they are committing suicide, they do not know. Nature's law is very stringent.

They are foolish rascal. There is no education for them. Still, if we try, many men will be saved. So write very elaborately how to do this.

Increase. And in your country, we increase this farm project any unlimited number. So much land is lying vacant. We can utilize the wood for constructing residence. And as soon as the jungle is clear, we can utilize it for growing food and keeping cows, as exactly they are doing in New Vrindavan.

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