Category:Producing Our Milk (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To counteract the artificial and hellish conditions of modern industrial society, Śrīla Prabhupāda instructed his disciples to establish self-sufficient farm communities based on the Vedic principle of plain living and high thinking. He envisioned international agrarian projects where devotees could independently produce their own grains, vegetables, cloth, and abundant milk through loving cow protection. By solving all economic problems locally, without depending on city factories, the devotees would save immense time and energy to devote entirely to chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and advancing in pure spiritual life.
- The Principle of Plain Living and High Thinking: Instead of wasting time on unnecessary luxuries or grueling work in the cities, devotees are advised to live simply in open places, producing only what is needed for survival.
- Absolute Economic Independence: True self-sufficiency means growing local food grains and weaving cloth, which automatically solves all poverty and economic anxiety within the spiritual society.
- The Miracle of Cow Protection: Following the standard of kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyam, farms must properly protect cows. When cows feel safe and loved, they naturally deliver immense, extra quantities of milk to support the community.
- Establishing Agrarian Communities: The movement requires self-supported farms in every part of the world to provide fresh ingredients for the temples and to demonstrate a perfect, peaceful alternative to modern civilization.
- Saving Time for Spiritual Advancement: The ultimate motive behind these agrarian projects is not mundane agricultural success, but rather freeing the devotees from heavy labor so they can fully dedicate their time to hearing and chanting about the Supreme Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Prabhupāda Trains His Disciples to Produce Their Own Food and Milk.
Pages in category "Producing Our Milk (Disciples of SP)"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
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- First of all produce your own food grain, milk and vegetables, eat as much as absolutely necessary, don't eat more, and in this way keep your health
- For plain living we must have sufficient land for raising crops and pasturing grounds for the cows. If there is sufficient grains and production of milk, then the whole economic problem is solved
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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 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
- 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 you are getting enough milk from the cows simply by pasturing them, then that is all right. But if you require more then you may have to feed them special grains. We want to do whatever is easy and save time for Krishna consciousness
- Improve this mode of life. Live in open place, produce your food grain, produce your milk, save time, chant Hare Krsna. Plain living, high thinking - ideal life
- In New Vrindaban we are keeping cows. That is an example. And the cows are giving milk, delivering milk, double than other farmers. Why? Because the cows know that "These people will not kill me." They are not in anxiety
- In our New Vrindaban, because the cows feel very safe, they give us sufficient milk. That is our experience. So you keep things in order according to the Vedic injunction, you get sufficient food
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- Milk is miracle food. And we are practically experiencing in our farms that if the cows are protected nicely, they can supply immense milk. We are getting in our farms, extra milk
- My idea is that all our centers should be self-supported. We do not like that idea that for your support you have to go 100 miles to get your bread. That is a very dangerous drawback. You produce your food locally and then support yourself
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- Now you have got one very nice Jersey cross-bred cow, so take care of her very nicely. Feed her nicely fodder and she will give more milk
- Now, we should have self-sufficiency. This means to make our own food grains grow and to weave our own cloth - like in Mayapur. If we have food grains, milk, and cloth life becomes easy and we can save time for preaching and chanting
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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 only motive is how to interest people in Krsna consciousness. That's all. There is no economic problem. We can produce our own food and clothes, gradually, and save time for spiritual life
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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 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
- The proposed farm project in nothern California is approved by me. Such projects as well as constructing temples, protecting cows, gathering milk, then making ghee, then opening Hare Krishna Restaurants are all good programs for grhasthas
- 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
- This is cow protection. We must tend the cows very nicely so that they give us sufficient milk. And with that milk we shall live
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- We are developing a plan to be self-sufficient. Namely, to produce our food grains, maintain cows, for drinking milk, and weave cloth for garments. We have plans for erecting a magnificent international city based on this Vedic culture
- We have practical experience in America that in our various ISKCON farms we are giving proper protection to the cows and receiving more than enough milk. In other farms the cows do not deliver as much milk as in our farms
- We say protect cow from economic point of view, krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam. Without saving cows you cannot get good food. Not from the animal point of view. You require milk and milk preparation
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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
- You are producing nice vegetables from the earth and ample supply of milk from the cows so what more do you want? Just chant Hare Krishna and everything will be alright
- You get from all the farms all your necessities, then it will be successful. Fodder, milk, grains, vegetables, and animals and man will be satisfied, and you can chant Hare Krishna. No unnecessary cow killing, and no unnecessary needs of the body
- 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