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Simple Living- Not So Simple? Conversations Prabhupada: Yes, also. Otherwise, we have seen in our
childhood how happy people were. They were. Simple. If one
has five rupees income per month he's happy. I've seen it. Husband, wife, a
small family. If he has got five rupees income, they can maintain very
nicely, happily. Why not? Suppose he has got five rupees income. The
rice was selling at four rupees. So two person, say one-fourth kg.,
one-fourth share each. A gentleman cannot eat more than that. So means half a
share. And the whole month, fifteen share. It is about one rupee
eight annas. And further, one rupees eight annas add for vegetables and
other things. With three rupees they can maintain, the husband and wife.
And two rupees still there. He can spend for other purposes. I have
seen it. Fresh vegetables, rice, this and... Just like with banana
leaf. The pots were of earthen, the wife is cooking and she's utilizing
dry foliage as fuel, a little temperature, everything is cooked.
The husband takes one banana leaf and spreads, and the wife
gives sufficient rice, vegetables. And things were so cheap. I have
seen it. And fresh.
Hamsaduta: Yes, everything, Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada: Anything fresh. Any cultivator, he has got little land surrounding his house and he's growing vegetables like squash, chilis, and some spinage, spinach? Hamsaduta: Spinach,
saka.
Prabhupada: Yes. And...
Hamsaduta: Eggplant.
Prabhupada: Eggplant. And this banana. So whatever he's grown he takes in a basket, goes to the market, immediately sold. And they're all fresh. Collected in the morning, and it is sold by eight o'clock. All fresh vegetables. There was no export, there was no facility of transport. These rascals introduced transport. Big scale transport, this railway. There was no railway. So transport means this villager, instead of selling locally or one mile away, he will dispatch in Calcutta. The Calcutta people, they are sitting on table and smoking and printing paper money and exploit. Hamsaduta: We had this
experience when we were traveling with our bus from Calcutta to
Vrndavana. We would want to buy watermelon from people who were
growing right on the bank of the river, and he would have huge piles. And he
would say, "No, I'm not selling. I'm transporting these to Delhi,
where one cannot get watermelon." He's getting five times the price he
would get in his local...
Prabhupada: And from Vrndavana, we have seen, they are exporting that drumbeats? Vrndavana? Hari-sauri: Drumsticks.
Prabhupada: Huh? Drumstick. So the transport is a dangerous thing. Hamsaduta: Yes, this is a scheme. Prabhupada: A local man cannot get. He's starving. And the man in big cities, he's doing nothing, he simply has got paper to sign and paper money he's attracting. All production. And they are starving. This is modern civilization. Everything, milk, vegetables, fish, everything, this chana. Otherwise, within the village you can get everything. Village economy. Everything very cheap. And as soon as they got these transport facilities, the local men, they could not eat, and these lazy rascals, they are getting everything. Big, big cities like Calcutta, Bombay, they (have) millions of population. They are not producing anything. The producer is different man. They are simply artificially cheating them by paper money and they take. This is modern civilization. Hamsaduta: And on the basis of this transporting of food, other industries grow. Like for instance packing. Sometimes the package costs more than the item which is being packaged. Prabhupada: Especially in your country. Packing is more important than the... They sent me some presentation in a huge package. Hamsaduta:
Consequently those persons who are farmers, they
become discouraged.
Conversations Prabhupada: Now it has become a problem how to throw these packings. Hamsaduta: Yes, this is another problem. Hari-sauri: Yes. Plastic they can't dispose of, glass. Prabhupada: Simply creating problems. Lavana haila ithe gatila jagya.(?) This modern civilization, they could not make any profit. They have created some problems, that's all. Very dangerous civilization. Prabhupada: No, they're thinking (the govt.) that so many
people are coming to the cities, how we shall provide them? That's a problem.
After all government has to supply them rations. Where is so much foodstuff?
And if they are not supplied, then there will be resentment. That's
a fact. What they are doing in the city, so many scooter (makes
motor sound), going here and there. Actually no engagement. The girls
are loitering in the street by dressing. It will become more and
more problems, city life. So this is the solution, that they must go
back to the village. But they are trained up to enjoy the
facilities, so-called facilities, of the city. They are not going to
village. But if we can introduce this hari-sankirtana, and if they
have little taste, that is success. It's a great program. And that
taste will come -ceto-darpana-marjanam. If he simply becomes little sober
that "I want to eat, I have to sleep, I want some sense enjoyment and
defense. So if I can get easily in the village, why shall I go
three hundred miles away? Just keep in mind the psychology. So that simple
life will be possible if one is bhakta. Bhaktih paresanubhavo
viraktir anyatra
syat. Only by devotion. Not by otherwise. Not by artificial
means, by manufacturing toilet. Only bhakti. If they get
little attachment for Krsna the questions will be solved automatically.
And they will be happy. Undoubtedly. That is the Caitanya Mahaprabhu's
first
instruction. Ceto-darpana.
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