Category:Our Land (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To establish a worldwide spiritual society, the acquisition and development of property played a crucial role in the vision of the mission. This category explores the practical and spiritual instructions regarding the management of land. The underlying principle is that real estate should not be viewed as a material asset, but rather as a sacred opportunity to build magnificent temples, establish self-sufficient farm communities, and institute traditional Vedic educational systems. Through careful legal management and a focus on cow protection and agriculture, the devotees were guided to create ideal environments that support a peaceful, God-centered way of life.
- Rigorous Legal Precautions: Securing properties requires strict attention to legal details, ensuring that all deeds are properly registered in the name of the society to protect the assets from unauthorized use or loss.
- Urban Temples as Spiritual Embassies: City properties are essential for constructing grand centers where the public can easily access transcendental knowledge, associate with devotees, and worship the Supreme Lord for generations.
- The Vision for Agrarian Communities: Developing rural farms allows practitioners to live peacefully, grow their own food, and produce their own necessities, thereby saving valuable time and energy for spiritual cultivation.
- Ethical Agriculture and Cow Protection: True self-sufficiency relies on the protection of cows and the sustainable use of the earth without artificial fertilizers, adhering strictly to the natural methods prescribed in the śāstras.
- Foundations for Vedic Society: Expansive properties provide the necessary space to establish gurukulas, vānaprastha institutes, and varṇāśrama colleges, creating a complete social structure dedicated to spiritual advancement.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Encourages His Disciples to Establish Farm Communities on Their Land.
Pages in category "Our Land (Disciples of SP)"
The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
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- As soon as everything is complete in the matter of registration of the "deed of gift" and the land is in the name of ISKCON, we shall begin immediately
- As you say that your land is very suitable for cow protection and for Tulsi to grow, then Krishna is giving you the opportunity to develop this program
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- He said personally to me that under dictation of Srimate Radharani he has given the land to us in charity. We have invested already lacs of rupees for constructing a temple
- He will give us 25 bighas at Mathura Gochar Bhumi as a concessional free gift. So immediately go and see the land, and if suitable then immediately take it
- How is that there is no news from you about the land? I expected to receive news through Nitai, but there is no news. Please see to this matter as I have requested you in my previous letter, the copy of which is enclosed
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- I also want to open the Varna Ashrama College there as there is sufficient land
- I am anxious to hear from you, what are the activities there in Bombay. Did you try for the land, Grand Pardi at Kemps Corner? I look forward to receiving your reply
- I am awaiting your visit. We shall discuss further regarding the land you have described when you come
- I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 21, 1975 with enclosed copies of the master plan and cost estimate of the Hyderabad land. Who has drawn this big scheme
- I am now organizing in Europe and America many farm lands so that my devotees can live there peacefully, grow their own foodstuffs, produce cloth, and save time for chanting Hare Krishna
- I am presently en route to Bombay, and I have stopped here for one day. Here we have got a very nice land of 250 acres with a big French castle. They are starting to grow vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and they are keeping cows
- I am very much anxious to know what you have done about the land which Tahsilder and Patwari proposed to give us. I am very much anxious to know it
- I had some discussion with her that she will go to India and help in constructing our temple there. So now we are getting our land there and if she is able to help in this connection, then her going to India will be a great service to Krsna
- I have been informed of unauthorized attempts to sell land there which is legally owned by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Unless transactions are authorized by my duly appointed representative, Mr. Brent Selden, they are illegal
- I have not heard, however, from you anything about the Mayapur land - this is also essential
- I shall be glad to see you in Hawaii for making some project for improving the land there
- I understand that you are anxious to go to New Vrindaban. I think that it is Krishna's will that you shall go there and try to develop that nice land because there is so much potential there which can utilize your abilities in being developed
- I was very much eager to see you in connection with your land that you have donated to our Society. Now we have to make a program how to develop the place
- I wish to have a report of the situation with the land acquisition in Mayapur
- If we are unable to secure the Vakil house or some suitable place, then you should pack up and everyone immediately go to Mayapur. We have got some land there and the program is going on
- If we make propaganda village to village... Still, the villagers, they are unpolluted; they can be recovered. Still, when we hold meeting of Krsna consciousness, thousands of men come. And that our Hyderabad land is very suitable for this purpose
- It (New Vrndavana) has a farmhouse and several other structures, well, streams, hills (govardhana, as named by Swamiji) pasture grounds (a cow will be acquired soon), ghat, pond, woodland, all situated on 138 acres
- It is a very good suggestion to open the vanaprastha institute. The elderly people can live there according to the Vaisnava principles and worship the Deity and take prasada. I also want to open the Varna Ashrama College there as there is sufficient land
- It is good news that you have so sufficiently taken possession of the 40 acres of land there in our society name, under control of Gaurasundara
- It is not good business to invest money when it is not sure yet that the land will actually be transferred in the name of ISKCON
- It is very good news that there are persons there who want to cooperate to help us start a Varnasrama College Project and that they may supply us land for living as an ideal community producing our own food from the land
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- Last time when I was in Vrindaban I saw both the lands and we decided that we shall take both of them
- Loka means planets. We are proprietor of certain extent of land here, and we are very much proud. But God says that "I am the proprietor of all the planets." And suhrdam sarva-bhutanam. And He is the friend of all living entities
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- Mr. Harrison is purchasing 172 acres of land near London, and it is expected that he will construct a temple of Radha-Krishna there. This is also very encouraging news
- My only prayer was that, "I don't care for this land (in Bombay), but You are seated there, I cannot tolerate this insult that You will be removed from there." So Krsna saved our face. He's still remaining there
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- Regarding the farm in Gainesville, yes we require land for food grain production. One of our programs should be to send food grains to India for Vrindaban and Mayapur. If we distribute profusely prasadam we will become very popular
- Regarding the land purchase, these soil tests are unnecessary. All the land in that area needs fertilizers, that we know. Anyway, you can give up this. If there is doubt, then there is no need for purchasing this land
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- Simply I prayed to Krsna, - My dear Lord, You are seated there on that place (the land in Bombay). If You are removed, then it will be suicidal. You must remain there
- Since Lalita Prasad Thakura has not fulfilled his promise to give us that Birnagar land for our ISKCON center, so we shall not have any more to do with printing any books by Bhaktivinode Thakura or anyone
- So far increasing the New Orleans' farm, yes, if you have got more men, you can get more land. You should make a stock of ghee from the farm and if possible open a restaurant in the city for attracting people. You can prepare samosas, kacoris, rasgullas
- Some days before we had a talk regarding the property of Kanthaltala (Maternal uncle's house). Please have a discussion for purchasing that land. We want to keep our remembrance with that land
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- The corner land of the parikrama road may be applied for acquisition. We shall use it for agricultural purposes. Sometime back they approached us for acquiring that land. Now you can seriously do this
- The idea is that the land is there and Krisans may be engaged to grow food both for men and for the animals, namely the cows
- The judge has intelligently asked Mrs. Nair to whom she will hand over the land. She has denied us and is considering Chhaganlal, but if the judge takes seriously that the land must be given to one of us, that will be a great success
- The land at Kuruksetra is now available to us. So you can come and join me
- The land is purchased, and there were many opposing elements, but they are being satisfied, with the last one being satisfied today
- The land should be put in the name of International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Mayapur-Vrndavana Trust, Founder-Acarya A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- The second point is that after ISKCON has been organized in the above way the land which the temple is being constructed on must be leased to ISKCON Fiji with a 99 year unconditional lease with option to renew which I shall approve
- The sketch of the land is not containing any dimensions. A more detailed map should be sent to me with the length and breadth measured in yards and clearly indicated on your sketch. How can a plan be drawn up without this information?
- The stone bearing your mother's name in both Hindi and English will be laid down at the proper place just after the registration of the land
- This is to certify that Mr. Brent Selden, whose initiated name is Sudama das Goswami, is the president of our Honolulu Center, and therefore authorized to deal with all lands and property possessed by ISKCON
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- We are constructing the Hare Krishna Land project in Juhu Beach and we trust that you and your family members will take advantage of the facilities for generations to come
- We have got fifty bighas of land, and I have calculated in Mayapur, setting aside twenty bighas for the temple and grazing ground for the cows, thirty bighas of land
- We have got so much land even on this earthly planet. I am traveling all over the world. You can produce food grains so in large quantity that you can feed all the population, ten times population
- We shall never use this artificial fertilizer on our farms. It is forbidden in the sastras. If you plant easily grown crops once in the year, then the earth will not become exhausted. Don't overuse the land
- We want to keep that land, we do not want to break the agreement, therefore I have formed this committee
- We want to utilize our land there for raising flowers, vegetables and grains if possible. Jaya Laksmana's suggestions are welcome so please give him all encouragement and facility. Work together cooperatively and develop things nicely there
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- Yes, we want to develop our land there and Bhaktivedanta Manor very nicely with cows and gardens
- You are the manager there (in New Vrndavana), and in cooperation with the GBC men it is up to you to see that everything is developed very very nicely and that all the land is utilized properly, not that it is sitting going to waste
- You especially are to take the credit. From the very beginning you wanted that place, and you got the land, got money from me, and now you have built the place by your concentration of energy. That is wanted
- You have got a new house very suitable for our purpose; it is very nice. So try to purchase some land as soon as possible
- You have got this land; develop it. Don't go away. Develop it. That is my instruction. Keep cows, as many cows as possible. You don't require practice. Produce your own food, own milk - save time; chant Hare Krsna. This is perfect
- You have so much land to cultivate here (in New Mayapura)
- Your proposal for establishing a Krishna Consciousness community on the land which you have is very good. Whenever we get some land available we should take the opportunity to develop it into an ideal community as envisioned for New Vrindaban