Polk’s Global Forecasting: “We expect that 77% of the cars produced in Germany will be exported, as opposed to a 69% export rate in previous year. Incoming orders from foreign markets make the industry look quite optimistic in the medium term. Polk predicts that exports will reach 4.25 million cars, the second best year ever. Production is currently expected to be 5.5 million units, which would make it the third best year in history.”
"So actually, human opulence means not these tin cars"
Prabhupada, Los Angeles, May 16, 1973: […] So actually, human opulence means not these tin cars. Once it is dashed with another car, it is finished, no value. Human opulence means the society must have enough gold, enough jewelry, enough silk, enough grains, enough milk, enough vegetables, like that. That is opulent.
That is opulence. Formerly a person was considered rich by two things: dhanyena dhanavan. How much grain stock he has got at his home. A big, big barn, filled with grains. Still in India, if I am going to give my daughter to some family, to see the family’s opulence, I go to see the house, and if I see there are many, many barns’ stock of grains and many cows, then it is very good. It is opulent. Dhanyena dhanavan, gavyam dhanavan. A man is considered to be rich when he has got enough quantity of grains, enough quantity of, I mean to say, number, enough number of cows. Just like Maharaja, Nanda Maharaja, the foster father of Krishna.
He was keeping 900,000 cows. And He was rich man. He was maharaja, king. But see the behavior. His beloved son, Krishna and Balarama, he has entrusted to take care of the calves or cows: “Go in the forest.” He is well dressed with ornament, and nice dress, everything. All the cowherds boys, they are very rich. They have got enough grains and enough milk. Naturally they will be rich. But not that the cows and the calves will be taken care of by some hired servant. No. They would take care himself.
That was children’s sport, to go to the forest, take the calves and cows and carry some tiffin. Eat there, dance there, play there, and again come in the evening. Then they will take bath and change their dress and take their meals and immediately go to sleep. This was the boy’s, children’s, engagement. So how they would grow healthy because they go outside and play and work and very happily, they enjoy the company.
So there is no question of becoming contaminated. Yamuna-tira-vana-cari. Yamuna-tira, on the bank of the Yamuna… Just like we go to the seaside, the beach, similarly, there is bank of Yamuna, very nice river, and there are trees. So these boys, Krishna and His friends, with their cows they will go and loiter on the bank of the Yamuna and sport and frivolities, everything, so nicely. So there was no question of education at that time. After the child is grown up, healthy, nice, then he goes to school.
Otherwise first of all eat sumptuously milk, butter and yogurt, and play sufficiently in open air with friends, take care of the cows. This is labor. But it is sporting, very nice. So these things were taught by Krishna Himself, although He was the son of king. Then when He was also grown-up, His real father took Him charge, Vasudeva. Then He was… As ksatriya… He belonged to the ksatriya family. All other education was given, how to fight, how to rule, everything.
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