Category:Our Self-sufficiency (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
Establishing rural farm projects is a central pillar of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Śrīla Prabhupāda directs his disciples to develop self-sufficient communities where devotees produce their own food grains, milk, and cloth. By rejecting dependence on hellish factories and complex machinery, practitioners save valuable time and energy for the primary business of chanting and preaching. He envisions these independent centers as perfect examples for the rest of the world, demonstrating how human society can live peacefully without economic anxiety. Furthermore, he trains his followers to be financially competent in all local matters, ensuring the global movement remains strong, decentralized, and entirely focused on pure devotional service.
- Establishing Agricultural Centers: The society actively acquires land to build rural communities that can independently produce all basic necessities like grains, vegetables, and milk.
- Rejecting Hellish Factories: Devotees are instructed to avoid grueling industrial labor and dependence on modern machinery, opting instead for a simple, natural lifestyle.
- Decentralization and Independence: Every temple is expected to be financially competent and self-supported, rather than relying on subsidies from other centers.
- Demonstrating the Ideal Lifestyle: These self-sufficient farms serve as practical, living examples to the public of how to exist peacefully without constant urban movement.
- Saving Time for Spiritual Life: The ultimate goal of solving the economic problem locally is to free up maximum time and energy for chanting the holy names and preaching.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Directs His Disciples to Develop Farm Communities Based on Self-sufficiency.
Pages in category "Our Self-sufficiency (Disciples of SP)"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- As far as possible try to adjust to a natural way of life free from dependence on machines
- As we are doing in Mayapur and many other places, I want to develop self-sufficient centers with cloth and food production by the devotees locally and save time as much as possible to devote themselves to chant Hare Krishna
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- I never wanted that any of my temples shall be dependent upon the other temples; rather, our main business is to train up men to be self-sufficient and competent in many ways to carry on the preaching work
- I want that Mayapur be self-sufficient by having its own production of grains, vegetables, fruits and milk products etc., to the extent that you will be able to feed at least 500 men daily
- I want that New Vrindaban should be completely self-sufficient for this ghee production, not that the Society should have to subsidize New Vrindaban for nothing. No, you make only pure ghee, as much as possible, and ship to all our centers
- I want the world to see by our example that life can be lived naturally, peacefully if one is self sufficient with land, some cows and chanting Hare Krishna. That is the idea of purchasing land
- I wish the temple community to be self-sufficient by producing their own food grains
- It is not necessary that every temple have a farm, but as many as can be efficiently managed locally is all right. Let them see our centers are self sufficient. Whatever can be managed conveniently
- It is not that we don't touch machine. We don't say like that. But we want to be self-sufficient. That is our point
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- Our farm projects are an extremely important part of our movement. We must become self-sufficient by growing our own grains and producing our own milk, then there will be no question of poverty
- Our main business is to train up men to be self sufficient and competent in many ways to carry on the preaching work, not to make them into specialists or to minimize their responsibility by centralizing everything
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- The collections will increase as people come more and more. The temple should become self-sufficient, that is wanted. However, see that stealing is stopped. I am doubtful that things are being stolen, otherwise how is the expenditure so high
- The idea is that people can be self sufficient and raise their own foodstuffs and have sufficient milk to save time and chant Hare Krishna. Why should they work so hard in the hellish factories? Let everyone live simply and be Krsna conscious
- There is no economic problem. We can produce our own food and clothes, gradually, and save time for spiritual life
- There is no objection to using electricity. But we should not be dependent upon it
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- You have got sufficient space. Produce flowers, fruits, vegetables and grains in ample quantities. We should be fully self-sufficient. I like New Mayapur very much
- You live locally, and be self-sufficient. They will see that it is possible to live locally without movement, and still highly cultured men, self-sufficient. That is required
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