You live with the minimum necessities

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Prabhupada, London, March 11, 1975: […] You live with the minimum necessities. Don’t increase your necessities unnecessarily.” This is Vedic civilization.

And the modern civilization is even increase your necessities—a machine for shaving your cheek. You see? Another machine, another attention diversion. More machine means more diversion of attention. I have to take care, more technician, more technologies.

Simply if one razor can shave, can make my cheek very clean, where is the necessity?

Formerly, at least we Indian know that go to a blacksmith and he prepares a razor, very nice razor. You pay him four annas (1/16 rupee), and it will last for your life and shave your cheek very nicely, daily or occasionally.

But the modern civilization means that in everything there must be machine. That is the advancement of material… But the sastra says, “What is the use of taking so much labor?” Full Lecture

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