Scientific progress is making so many problems, huge problems and it will get worse too. All over the world there is, all the time, some drought, flood, cyclones. So the immediate cause, you can say, is the depletion of the ozone layer, or the melting of the ice at the North and South Pole. But the ultimate reason is that they are performing so many sinful activities.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Prabhupada very much wanted that devotees come and live together. Of course he wanted them to also farm the land, protect cows and show a different kind of lifestyle by which people can live together simply without unnecessary things.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
There are so many unnecessary things that people think they have to have: a TV, and a car, and a microwave oven, and video, and so many different things. Actually none of these things are necessary.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Even electricity — Prabhupada was saying we don't even need this. If you want to live very simply, he was saying, you can grow the castor plants; then you get castor oil and you can use that for light.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)