“And what is that work? If one, one works for three months on the field, he can get his whole years’ food.”
Prabhupada, August 10, 1973, Paris: For livelihood, one has to work. That is material world. So you work. And what is that work? If one, one works for three months on the field, he can get his whole years’ food. That is economically fact. How many mounds of grains we can produce per acre? Do you know that?
We know, in our Indian calculation, we can produce at least ten mounds of grain per bigha. So if one has got ten bighas of land, he can produce hundred mounds of grains. So how much you can eat daily. Just compute it. Utmost two pounds. Utmost. So if you eat two pounds grains per day. In a month, sixty pounds. And eighty-two pounds makes one mound. You are getting one thousand mounds. One thousand mounds. Then? Ten bighas of land…
Bhagavan: One hundred mounds.
Prabhupada: One hundred.
Guru Gauranga: Mounds.
Prabhupada: So you get enough food by working three months. But they’ll not work in the field. They’ll work in the factory. The… Now the world situation is there that they have invented so many artificial work. So people are embarrassed with this kind of work. He doesn’t find any time.
Anna Conan Doyle: He’s not trained.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Anna Conan Doyle: He’s not trained.
Prabhupada: Yes. This is the… So if we make our living condition very simple, there is enough time, enough time. But we don’t say that you go back to the primitive stage of life. That is not possible. We simply request that wherever you are, simply chant Hare Krishna.
There is no difficulty. Then everything will be clear. And we are not charging anything for that, that: “You give me so many pounds. I’ll give you a mantra.” Not like that. [break] There is no necessity. Unnecessarily they are killing animals, and becoming sinful. So they have created their own field of activities just to become bereft of Krsna consciousness. Formerly, in the human society, there was no slaughterhouse. If they wanted to kill one animal, they went to the forest or anywhere. Kill one animal and eat it.
But here it is now regular business. Somebody’s supplying cows regularly by increasing livestock. That has become his business. And somebody’s killing. So we have invented so many things like that, simply for sinful activities. How we can become happy? It is not possible. So many big, big factories for producing beer and liquor. But they have become accustomed to this.
And the net result is now we increasing the hippie population. This irresponsible life is producing children, most irresponsible, brainless. Yes. But they have no eyes to see, that “How we are degrading. This is our children.” Full Conversation
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