Category:Producing Our Fruits (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s vision for the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement includes establishing rural, self-sufficient farm communities worldwide. He trains his disciples to break free from the dangerous dependency on modern cities by developing their own land to produce essential foodstuffs, milk, and cloth. By keeping cows and growing abundant grains, vegetables, and fruits—such as his favorite mangoes—devotees completely eliminate artificial economic problems. However, this simple living is not the ultimate goal itself; it is the practical means to a profound spiritual end. By producing their own basic necessities and avoiding the wasteful luxuries of modern society, his disciples save maximum time and energy to devote themselves peacefully to chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, reading transcendental literature, and ultimately demonstrating a perfect new way of life to the world.
- Establishing Self-Sufficiency: The society must develop independent centers—from Māyāpur to Europe—where devotees produce their own food and cloth locally without relying on outside sources.
- Solving Economic Problems: Artificial economic crises disappear when communities embrace the simple, no-profit scheme of agriculture and cow protection.
- Avoiding City Life: Disciples are instructed to stay away from the dangerous drawbacks of modern towns and cities by remaining self-independent on their own land.
- Saving Time for Spiritual Life: The ultimate purpose of this simple agrarian lifestyle is to eliminate unnecessary labor, saving maximum time to peacefully chant the holy names and read transcendental books.
- Demonstrating a New Way of Life: By successfully maintaining peaceful, productive farm communities, the devotees offer a perfect, practical alternative to the frantic pace of modern society.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Instructs His Disciples to Produce Their Own Necessities and Save Time for Chanting.
Pages in category "Producing Our Fruits (Disciples of SP)"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- 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 fond of mangoes and when they are produced on our own property, then they become more palatable
- 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
- If they think that they can do some business, let them do it. What can be done? If they cannot produce food, then let them do business
- If we can keep cows sufficiently and grow our necessary foodstuffs, then we shall show a new way of life to your countrymen
- If we keep cows and grow food grains, fruits, vegetables, then we can live very peacefully like that. There is no need of going to the city
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- That is our mission: Cow protection and agriculture and if there is excess, trade. This is a no-profit scheme. For the agriculture we want to produce our own food and we want to keep cows for our own milk
- That you are growing all your own grains is very good. It is my ambition that all devotees may remain self independent by producing vegetables, grains, milk, fruits, flowers, and by weaving their own cloth in handlooms
- The whole idea of New Vrindaban is that men who are living there should produce their own food, of which milk is the principal thing
- There is no economic problem. We can produce our own food and clothes, gradually, and save time for spiritual life
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- Yes, this supplying of milk to the temple is wanted. Thank you. In the way that Atlanta is doing, every center must have a farm so we can get all milk and if possible vegetable, even fruit, flowers and milk
- Yes, we want to develop our land there and Bhaktivedanta Manor very nicely with cows and gardens
- 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 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