Category:Producing Our Own Food (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category highlight the practical economic vision of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. By establishing rural communities where devotees produce their own food and protect cows, Śrīla Prabhupāda offers a perfect solution to the anxieties of modern industrial life. He explains that humanity's suffering stems from abandoning agriculture to manufacture unnecessary goods in hellish factories. However, the ultimate purpose of this self-sufficient lifestyle is not merely to survive or to generate a profit. The true goal is to drastically minimize physical labor and bodily demands so that practitioners can save their valuable time and energy to chant the holy names, study the scriptures, and advance in spiritual realization.
- Solving the Economic Problem: Relying on the natural gifts of the earth—specifically grain production and cow protection—automatically solves all of society's artificial economic problems.
- Escaping Industrial Illusion: Modern civilization forces people into disease-ridden cities and stressful factories, whereas an agrarian lifestyle offers a peaceful, healthy, and happy alternative.
- Saving Time for Spiritual Life: The core motive behind producing local food and cloth is to eliminate the need for luxury and minimize unnecessary labor, thus saving precious time for devotional service.
- Creating Independent Communities: Spiritual centers must strive to become fully self-supported, freeing devotees from the dangerous drawback of depending on outside employment for their daily bread.
- Setting the Ideal Example: By developing successful farm projects and distributing abundant spiritualized food, the movement practically demonstrates to the world how to live peacefully and perfectly.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Directs His Disciples to Save Time for Spiritual Life by Producing Their Own Food.
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Pages in category "Producing Our Own Food (Disciples of SP)"
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 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 have traveled over the world at least fourteen times. I have seen there is enough land, especially in Africa, in Australia, in America, and we can produce so much food grains that ten times of this present population can be easily maintained
- I wish the temple community to be self-sufficient by producing their own food grains
- 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
- 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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- Less disease (in the country). Less brain-taxing. Everything is less. So balance time, utilize for Krsna consciousness. And if you have got temple, it is very happy life. Just for your food work little, and balance time engage yourself in K.C.
- Let them come (to New Mayapura) and work little, grow food, eat and chant. Why should they bother going to the factory, running at five o'clock. Horrible life, horrible civilization
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- 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
- My idea is to purchase land for agriculture so inmates may not depend on outsiders but grow food there and things may go on nicely
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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
- Our program is that the inhabitants should produce their own food, somehow or other they should be self-independent. Otherwise, what is the use of occupying such great tract of land
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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
- 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 Krsna consciousness movement in engaging devotees in producing their own food and living self-sufficiently so that rascals may see how one can live very peacefully, eat the food grains one has grown oneself, drink milk, and chant Hare Krsna
- The present scarcity of foodstuff means everybody is engaged in the city, producing bolts and nuts. Who is producing food grain? This is the solution of economic problem. Therefore we are trying to engage our men to produce their own food
- The real business is that you produce enough food grains, as much as possible, and you eat and distribute. That's all. This is business. He does not require any so high technical education. Anyone can till the ground and grow food. Is it difficult?
- The whole idea is that we are Iskcon, a community to be independent from outside help. This farm project is especially for the devotees to grow their own food
- 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