CNN: Sustainability approaches of Appachi Cotton/ Ethicus

Student, May 27, 1974, Rome: […] We can make our own cloth? Khadi.
Prabhupada: Yes, cotton. From cotton you can make your own cloth.
Student: My wife knows how to spin cloth.
Prabhupada: Yes. By spinning thread, then you make cloth. Without any price. You grow your cotton and have your cloth. So by machine, they have created so many idle brain, and therefore hippies are coming out, problem. This is the result of this. Because they have created this machine, not everyone is employed, so he must become a hippie. Idle brain is a devil’s workshop. Full Conversation
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