“So where is the scarcity?”

ime jana-padah svrddhah supakvausadhi-virudhah vanadri-nady-udanvanto hy edhante tava viksitaih (SB 1.8.40) 

“All these cities and villages are flourishing in all respects because the herbs and grains are in abundance, the trees are full of fruits, the rivers are flowing, the hills are full of minerals and the oceans full of wealth. And this is all due to Your glancing over them.”

Prabhupada, Los Angeles, May 2, 1973: This is Vedic civilization. There is mention of so many things, that “The grains are in abundance and the trees are full of fruits. The rivers are flowing nicely. The hills are full of minerals and the ocean full of wealth.” So where is the scarcity? There is no mention that slaughterhouse is flourishing, industry is flourishing. No such mention. There are all nonsense things they have created.

Therefore problems are there. If you depend on God’s creation, then there is no scarcity, simply ananda. If the trees are full of fruits, if you have got sufficient grains and… Because there is sufficient grains, there is sufficient grass also. The animals, the cows, they will eat the grass. You’ll eat the grains, the fruits. And the animal will help you, the bulls will help you to produce grains.

And he will partake little, what you throw away. The animal will be satisfied. You take the fruits, inside of the fruits; you throw away the skin, the animal will be satisfied. You take the grains and throw away the grass. The animals will be satisfied. From the trees, you take the fruits. They are satisfied with the vegetables.

So there is full cooperation between trees, animals, human beings when there is Krishna is in the center. This is civilization. Krishna, Krishna consciousness, if it is there, tava viksitaih… Tava viksitaih means “This is due to Your glancing over them.” Just like we are sitting here. Krishna is glancing over us. Everything is nice, first-class.

Krishna has come very kindly. Because you are trying to become Krishna’s devotee, He has come before you in His full opulence, and He’s glancing over you, and you become happy and beautiful. Therefore we want… This whole material creation is due to Krishna’s glancing. Sa aiksata.
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