Scheverman, June 15, 1976, Detroit: […] Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the homeless.
Prabhupada: A man is poor when he’s in ignorance.
Scheverman: So you see that as a greater poverty, is the ignorance, rather than the physical poverty of not having enough food.
Prabhupada: So food problem can be solved simply by accepting…. That is also stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Find out. Annad bhavanti bhutani. How everyone can…. Find out.
Dhrstadyumna: “All living bodies subsist on food grains which are produced from rains. Rains are produced by the performance of sacrifice, and sacrifice is born of prescribed duties.”
Prabhupada: So if you produce enough food grains, both the man and the animal will live very peacefully. Food grains. And I’ve seen in your country, in America, in Africa, in Australia, so much vacant land without producing food grains. So men are not engaged to produce food grains, but they are brought in Detroit to manufacture of wheels of motorcar.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
June 15, 1976, Detroit
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