Category:Producing Our Vegetables (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The modern world conditions humanity to believe that complex industrialism and city living are essential for survival. Counteracting this dangerous illusion, Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently urges his followers to establish rural centers where they can live completely independent of modern society. He explains that by producing their own vegetables, grains, milk, and cloth, devotees can effortlessly bypass the artificial economic problems that plague the general public. Ultimately, this simple agrarian lifestyle is specifically designed to minimize bodily demands and save maximum time for chanting the holy names.
- Solving the Economic Problem: The artificial struggle for money and employment is eliminated when communities grow their own crops, protect cows, and weave their own cloth locally.
- The Ideal Farm Community: By acquiring sufficient land, devotees can successfully establish self-sufficient projects that supply the central temples with fresh, natural produce.
- Rejecting City Life and Luxury: Urban environments breed unnecessary desires, so practitioners are advised to remain in the country, avoid the towns, and live without useless, time-consuming luxuries.
- Replicating the Atmosphere of Vrndavana: Instead of constructing massive, mundane buildings, devotees should focus on making the fields green and replicating the joyful, natural life of Lord Krsna's original abode.
- Saving Time for Spiritual Advancement: The ultimate purpose of a self-sufficient agrarian lifestyle is not endless agricultural labor, but drastically minimizing bodily demands to save maximum time for chanting Hare Krsna.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Instructs His Disciples to Save Time for Chanting by Producing Their Vegetables.
Pages in category "Producing Our Vegetables (Disciples of SP)"
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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 may request you to send me some of that bitter melon that you are growing there. You take some of that bitter and cut into pieces and dry it, then send
- 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 (New Vrindaban) is sufficient land for building great temples and houses for devotees. There is pasturing land, and sufficient grass and vegetables for the grazing of cows
- 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 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 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