Build self-sufficient farms to engage people in chanting while resisting Communist threats to religious movements.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Not very good. Old man's disease. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura said, vṛddha kāla āola saba sukha bhāgala:[?] "When a man becomes old, all bodily comforts..." So it is not very good to live like an old man. It is troublesome.
Body will be weakened, and all kinds of disease will be strong. Unless one is very strong in body, old age means suffering. So whatever Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma desire. Now it is up to you to maintain the Society very nicely.
There is framework. There is idea. There is facility of everything. If you like, you can maintain work.
Yaśomatīnandana: They're having a very nice farm in Ahmedabad.
Yaśomatīnandana: One hundred acres. It's all very nice level land, and we have planted crops in 150 bighās. That is about...
Prabhupāda: So you give some... We are getting many other land. If your becomes ideal, you can teach them. People are coming for chanting? Yaśomatīnandana: Yes.
One gṛhastha is there, and the first week we went there, every night three hundred people were coming. Prabhupāda: That's it. Yaśomatīnandana: And that was in the middle of the desert. Not desert; in the middle of like jungle, you know. Prabhupāda: That I want. Yaśomatīnandana: It's fifteen minutes away from the... Prabhupāda: We don't want any profit. We don't want any profit. You produce, you eat, you chant.