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video: Interview of Students, Dr. Rama Naidu Insititute of Rural Development, Tuniki Village, Medak District, AP
Prabhupada, New York, August 27, 1966 — You can take foodstuff as much as you require for your maintenance of the body. Now if you take more, then you’ll be in trouble, and if you take less, then you’ll be in trouble. You have to take exactly what is prescribed for you. Just like the elephant.
Elephant is taking hundred pounds daily, twice. Once at a time he takes hundred pounds or more than that. And the ant takes only one grain. Now if the ant thinks that “I shall also take hundred pounds,” oh, it is impossible for him. It is impossible. And if the elephant thinks, “All right, the ant is taking one grain. I shall take.” No. That is not.
The system is that in God’s kingdom, in God’s creation, for everybody, there is sufficient food. You take as much as you require. That is the natural way. In the nature’s way you’ll find, beginning from the ant to the elephant, they will not take more, they will not take less.
If to the elephant you give two hundred pounds foodstuff, he’ll take only a hundred pounds as he requires. Neither he’ll take the foodstuff to his place to stock it for next day. No. You see these pigeons. You see.
Whenever you give some foodstuff they take whatever they require, but they don’t take anything for the next day. Next day. But we are thinking, “Oh, we have got so much foodstuff. All right, let me eat up to my throat, and then take something for next day.” No.
The next day question should be stopped. We shall always depend. We shall always take as much as we require. That is called yoga-yukta. Yuktāhāra-vihārasya yogo bhavati siddhiḥ. One who is situated just exactly what he needs.
Now, the whole world is situated in such a way, that every body, if he takes exactly what he needs and he does not stock, then there is no need. There is no poverty, there is no scarcity. But we do not do that.
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