Reporter, March 25, 1976, Delhi: […] If you would elaborate on that, I would be very much interested.
Prabhupada: Well, that is…. It is…. It is known to everyone. Krishna says, annad bhavanti bhutani. Anna. Anna means food grains, eatables. You must produce sufficient food grains. Why you are producing tire tube instead of food grains?
And just entering your Delhi from Vrindavana, a big Goodyear factory, very big factory. You are producing tire tube, then iron, Goodyear and this and that. Where is food grain? And both sides, the field is vacant. Nobody is going to grow food grain. Then why you’ll not starve? It is your fault. You are producing tire tube and iron instrument.
You are neglecting agriculture. Then why you shall not suffer for want of food grain? And you are pleading, “Indians are starving.” Well, why shall not starve if they do not follow Bhagavad-gita? They are thinking, “By increasing industry in America…”
They have got industry, at the same time food grains also. But you are taking to industry without taking care of growing food grains.
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