“They are trying to solve one problem, but creating another hundreds of problems”

"Village life is the best life. That you develop. It will be an ideal thing. You haven’t got to go office fifty miles off. Just get little vegetables and milk, bas, your problem is solved."

Prabhupada, June 10, 1976, Los Angeles: […] They are trying to solve one problem, but creating another hundreds of problems.
Bharadvaja: What are some of the examples?

Prabhupada: Just like you create a motorcar for easy transportation, and you have experience: the power problem, the accident problem. If there is no power problem, you get more petrol, and you commit more accidents.

And you stop car, then you are unable to move, because you now you have created city. If you want to go to consult a doctor, you have to go thirty miles from your residence. You require doctor, but because you have now car, you have big, big roads. So your doctor, medical consultant, is living thirty miles off.

So you have to ride on cars to go to the market, to go to the office, to go to the medical man. So car is required. And as soon as car is there, the accident is there, and there is, power shortage is there, you require big, big roads, so on, so on, so on.

Hari-sauri: Pollution.
Prabhupada: So where is the solution of your problems? It has created more problems.
Bharadvaja: So village life is best.
Prabhupada: That is the best life. That you develop. It will be an ideal thing. You haven’t got to go office fifty miles off. Just get little vegetables and milk, bas, your problem is solved. It is practical. Why you should go fifty miles off?
Radha-vallabha: In New York, to go to work, they go into the subway car, and there are so many people…
Prabhupada: That… Not only, the ferry, steamer, bus, train, subway, cars, there are so many things. I’ve seen it. They start for going to the office early in the morning, and they come back at eleven o’clock at night. And few hours, that is their family life. And that hours are wasted by sleeping and by sex. This is their life. And to forget all these miserable conditions, drink. This is civilization.
Bharadvaja: Horrible.
Radha-vallabha: My father used to get up very early in the morning to go to work, and he would be so tired from going to work, as soon as he got home, he would just eat and immediately fall asleep. I’d ask him why he was working so hard, he would say, “Simply to support the children.” But now he has no more wife, no more children, and he’s still working the same.
Prabhupada: Horrible civilization. Chant Hare Krishna.
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