Category:Sufficient Food Grains
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the foundation of a peaceful, prosperous, and spiritually advanced society relies entirely on producing sufficient food grains and protecting cows. Through his teachings, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that genuine economic development does not mean accumulating artificial paper wealth or over-industrializing the planet. Instead, true wealth is found in depending on Kṛṣṇa's natural arrangements, utilizing the earth through kṛṣi (agriculture), and avoiding the severe sinful reactions of animal slaughter. When human society ensures that there is an abundant supply of grains and milk, both men and animals achieve practical happiness (annād bhavanti bhūtāni), which provides the essential peace of mind required for pursuing self-realization.
- True Economic Wealth: The Vedic standard of prosperity is measured not by paper money, but by the tangible abundance of cows and food grains.
- God's Perfect Arrangement: If human society depends on the Supreme Lord and utilizes the fertile earth properly, there will be zero scarcity and limitless bliss.
- The Illusion of Industry: Modern civilization neglects agriculture in favor of producing machines, a foolish diversion of energy that leads directly to starvation and chaos.
- Avoiding Sinful Slaughter: With an ample supply of milk, vegetables, and grains provided by nature, there is absolutely no necessity or excuse for maintaining slaughterhouses.
- Practical Happiness: As stated in the scriptures, all living entities thrive on food grains, making agricultural production the first necessary step before higher philosophical pursuits can be achieved.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Eradicating Scarcity by Depending On God For Sufficient Food Grains.
Pages in category "Sufficient Food Grains"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- According to Vedic civilization, a man is supposed to be rich when he has got sufficient grains and cows. Here we have neither sufficient grains or cows, but you have got sufficient quantity of papers only - falsely thinking that it is money
- Annad bhavanti bhutani (BG 3.14). Simply by dry lecture, how they will feel happy? There must be sufficient food grains so that people may live happily, the animal may live happily
- As one of the demigods, the earthly planet was taking her share in the yajnas but in return she was not producing sufficient food grains. Prthu Maharaja was therefore justified in threatening to punish her for her offense
C
- Civilized human being means God conscious, happy life, no trouble, no enviousness, everything happy, no hard labor. Why hard labor? Everything is there. You just employ your little intelligence, you get sufficient food by grains, fruits, flowers, milk
- Cow's milk is very important for human energy, and the economic development of society depends on sufficient food grains, sufficient milk, and sufficient transportation and distribution of these products
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- If anyone, either animal or man has his belly filled up with sufficient food, he'll never be dissatisfied. That is the nature. So unfortunately we are not following the instruction of Bhagavad-gita
- If there is proper rainfall, then you get sufficient food grains; not only food grains, other things also. Sarva-dugha mahi, sarva-kama-dugha mahi (SB 1.10.4). From the earth you can get all the necessities of life
- If there is time and if your population has got sufficient food grains, then you can try to grow other fruits and vegetables for exporting. The first necessity is that you should be self-sufficient. That is God's arrangement
- If we depend on God's creation, there will be no scarcity, but simply ananda, bliss. God's creation provides sufficient grains and grass, and while we eat the grains and fruits, the animals like the cows will eat the grass
- If you have got sufficient food grains and milk, the whole food question is solved. And these rascals, they are not giving protection to the cows, but they are killing cows
- If you want to be happy, either animal or man, bhutani, then you produce anna, food grains, sumptuously. Annad bhavanti bhutani parjanyad anna-sambhavah. And there must be sufficient rain for producing sufficient food grains
- In desert you cannot make it fertile because that particular tract of land is forbidden by God: "No, nothing should be produced." You cannot do it. If you have got producing power, then why don't you produce sufficient grains and vegetables in the desert?
- India, eighty percent people, they are vegetarian. They are living very nicely. They are eating sufficient food grain and fruits and milk and milk product. God has given us so many. So why should we maintain slaughterhouse, killing other animals
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- King Prthu replied: My dear earth, you have disobeyed my orders and rulings. In the form of a demigod you accepted your share of the yajnas we performed, but in return you have not produced sufficient food grains. For this reason I must kill you
- Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, annad bhavanti bhutani (BG 3.14): "If there is sufficient food grains, then both man and animal, they become happy." Therefore our first religion is to produce food grain sufficiently to feed everyone
- Krsna says practical way: annad bhavanti bhutani (BG 3.14). Annad. You have . . . you must have sufficient food grains for the living entities - animal or man. This is practical
- Krsna says, annad bhavanti bhutani (BG 3.14). Anna. Anna means food grains, eatables. You must produce sufficient food grains. Why you are producing tire tube instead of food grains
P
- Produce sufficient food grain. So in the village side you go, hundreds and thousands of acres of land is lying vacant. Nobody is interested. Now they are interested opening slaughterhouse. Kill the poor animals and eat, but don't produce food grain
- Prthu replied: My dear earth, you have disobeyed my orders and rulings. In the form of a demigod you accepted your share of the yajnas we performed, but in return you have not produced sufficient food grains. For this reason I must kill you
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- The earth was not producing sufficient food grains. This indicates that the earth can produce sufficiently if everything is properly arranged, but sometimes the earth can refuse to produce food grains for various reasons
- The earth yielded sufficient food grains, the cows supplied abundant milk, and outer space was beautifully decorated with wonderful phenomena
- The human society, they should be advanced so much that even the birds, they have nothing to kill for their eating. They have got sufficient food. And we are advanced human being, we are killing for eating instead of God giving us so much food
- The poor do not have sufficient food. Let them go to the church and pray, 'O God, give us our daily bread.' But I have enough bread. Why should I go to church? - This is their opinion.
- The work must be done very nicely. There must be good arrangement for water supply and for plowing and keeping the cows in order. Then you get sufficient milk, sufficient food grains and produce your own cloth
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- Water is distributed over the land, and there will be sufficient food grains. And annad bhavanti bhutani (BG 3.14). And if there is sufficient to eat, as sufficient eatables to the animals and to the men, then everything is prosperous
- We are introducing the simple living, that go to the village, have sufficient food grains and milk. And the experiment is successful in the Western countries - in New Vrindavan, in Philadelphia, in New Orleans
- We can produce sufficient food grains for our maintenance, and the whole world has got sufficient land. I have traveled over the world at least fourteen times
- What is the talking of advaita-vada philosophy or dvaita-vada philosophy when you are needy, you require anna? That is practical solution given by Krsna. Annad bhavanti bhutani. You must find out sufficient grains
- When the people are perplexed in this way (not having sufficient food grains), they should approach the head of government, and the president or king should take immediate action to mitigate the distress of the people
- Why should you kill animals? You have got sufficient grains, sufficient food, sufficient milk, and is it very nice thing that you take milk from the cow, who is your mother, and kill at the same time? Is that very good reason
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- You cannot perform the former yajnasa by sacrifice tons of ghee and grains because you have no sufficient food grains even. But still, if you chant this sankirtana, that is yajna
- You require food grain, I require food grain, the animals require food grain, and everyone requires food grain. So if there is sufficient food grain, then everyone will be happy
- You take advantage of this, and also produce sufficient food grains so that people may not starve. Parjanyad anna-sambhavah. Annad bhavanti bhutani