Living
Live simply, grow your own food, chant Hare Krishna, develop higher consciousness, study the philosophy of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Importance of Simple Living
Without spiritual life, even if you live very simply, very clean and a very natural life, there is no use because the animals are also living a simple,natural life. So simple living is not the goal, but it’s very conducive for Krishna consciousness.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Problems in Grhasta Communities
One of the problems that we often see in these grhastha communities is maintaining standards, because often they go down and sometimes, you know, even like grossly breaking the regulative principles. Another thing that sometimes really spoils the communities is people mix up with each other's wife. Then it becomes really bad. So that we shouldn't do.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)
Be Very Careful
You have to be very careful, because it just needs one or two bad people to come and they can really spoil other persons. You have to be very careful, actually, who you allow to come. You should be strong on principles; without that, everything just becomes a sort of distress.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)