When everything is going on nicely, when everyone is performing pious activities, this is what happens: the rains come at night and just in a nice proportion, not too much, not too little.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Now there are so many sinful activities in the world; therefore there are droughts. In other parts there are floods.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
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)