If you have got grain, then you are rich. And if you have got cows, then you are rich. This is the standard of Vedic richness. ... They don't say, "Keep some papers and you become rich." All rascal, one thousand dollar "I promise to pay", a piece of paper. Practical, we have got enough food grains.
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This is another cheating. Nobody trusts in God, and they write, "In God We Trust." And unless I write... Of course I do not wish to say very harsh word, that unless I cheat you that way, how a man will accept one piece of paper as one thousand dollars? [laughter] You see? It is a grand cheating, that "I am giving one thousand dollars to you." But if I value, it is not even one farthing. This is called maya. It is not, but I accept. I accept. If people become enlightened, "No, we are not going to accept this piece of paper as one thousand dollars. We must have gold," so many things will be solved immediately. So many things. But because we agree to be cheated, the cheaters are cheating and things are going on wrong. This is called Kali-yuga. more
Model of a viable economy and way of life
excerpt from conversation with disciples, New Vrindaban, June 28, 1976
PRABHUPADA: In nutshell everything is there. Our agriculture, our temple, and food growing, and everything is there. Radha-Krishna worship. The sum and substance, everything... And you are living practically for the last... Eight years? Here?
KIRTANANANDA: Yes.
PRABHUPADA: You have no difficulty. You are happy more and more. Immense land. You can come, hundreds. We can provide. There is food. There is shelter.
KIRTANANANDA: They are worried that by protecting the cow it would not be economic, that they would lose. But actually we have proof—the more we protect cows, the more we gain in opulence.
PRABHUPADA: Yes.
KIRTANANANDA: Our community is gaining in opulence.
PRABHUPADA: Yes. Dhanyena dhanavan. If you have got grain, then you are rich. And if you have got cows, then you are rich. This is the standard of Vedic richness. Dhanyena dhanavan gavayo dhanavan. They don't say, "Keep some papers and you become rich." All rascal, one thousand dollar "I promise to pay", a piece of paper. Practical, we have got enough food grains. We have got enough... That is richness. What is use of paper? Even gold you have got, you have to exchange. And if you have grain, immediate food. Just boil with milk, and it is nectarean, param anna [first-class foodstuff], immediately. Take some wood collected from the wood and have fire, put the milk and the grains—oh, you'll get so nice food, nutritious, full of vitamin, and so easily made. It is practical. So tasteful, so nutritious, and don't require. If you simply boil little milk and little grain, whole day, so much sweet rice, you take—bas [it is enough]. You don't require any more. And if you add little apples and fruits, oh, it is heavenly. Your whole day free from any food anxiety, and you can work. And you can work. You can chant Hare Krishna.
Make this ideal life here. America has got good potency. We have got so much land here. We can have hundreds of New Vrindabans or farms like that. And people will be happy. And invite all the world, "Please come and live with us. Why you are suffering congestion, overpopulation? Welcome here. Chant Hare Krishna." Make that. Indian culture and American strength make the whole world happy. That logic even I have given? Andha-pangu?
PUSTA KRSNA: Blind and lame.
PRABHUPADA: India could not improve on account of poverty—lame. And America? Blind for want of culture. So let the blind man carry the lame man on the head, and the lame man give direction that "Go this way," and he walks. So both men's work is done. There is no hampering because one is blind and one is lame. Combined together, they get the benefit. Andha-pangor nyaya.
Sri Guru and Gauranga
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