Simple living and Krishna consciousness flourish only when detached from exploitative modern civilization's endless material demands.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...always studying, for the last ten years. It is my conclusion that originally everything Indian, that is very, very high grade—for human society, for personal. That is actual human civilization. Everything—hygienic principles, Vedic knowledge, moral knowledge—everything perfect.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: [noise of children] I'm going to tell them to... [break] Just going to take rest now.
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Otherwise it will increase. In your sickness, if you go on working, it will increase. Better take rest.
Devotee: Ginger, and keep warm. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Last night you were translating a little bit.
Prabhupāda: I began, but... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You stopped.
Prabhupāda: No, stopped not for my incapability, but I stopped it feeling sleepy. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, I mean you are taking so little prasādam that it is not to be expected that you can do very much physical activity. But I can see one thing is that you are very now fully recovered and alert. Prabhupāda: I think so. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think simply it is just weakness now, due to not... You know, you practically, it is like a fast.
You've been maintaining a fast now for nearly two months. Prabhupāda: Yes. I like that. If there is no appetite, what is the use of forcibly eating? When appetite will come, we shall eat.