httpv://youtu.be/_zZgkyWxIWI
video: Biggest combine harvesters in the world!
Prabhupada: Geneva, June 6, 1974: […] What is that technology?
Yogesvara: Like tractors. Instead of people having to cut down the wheat they have machines to come along with this. Cut down the wheat. And instead of having bullocks to pull the plow, they have a tractor. To cut down the wheat. Would the people be forced into the cities?
Prabhupada: Of course, there are machine facilities, but, in India so many men are unemployed that to introduce machine this is not a good proposal. Instead of cutting with a machine, if they cut by hand, they have employment.
Everyone is employed. Machine means 100 men’s work done by one machine. But why there are so many unemployed?
Why not engage 100 men instead of one machine? Here also, there are so many unemployed in the Western countries. In one sense, machine creates unemployment.
httpv://youtu.be/bkRYLXxy0K4
video: Farmers in the paddy fields of Arunachal
Just like because in your Western countries … everything is on machine, therefore you are creating so many hippies. That is also another kind of unemployment, everyone should be employed.
Otherwise, it will be devil’s workshop.
Idle brain is devil’s workshop. So, when there are so many people without any engagement, why there should be machine?
Machine is not good. One machine means to make another 100 men unemployed. The policy should be – nobody should be unemployed. Everyone should be busy.
Yogesvara: On the other hand, they say, machines are freeing us from so many….
Prabhupada: Freeing from what, for drinking wine and indulging in nonsense policy. What is the meaning of this freedom?
If you are made free for cultivating Krishna consciousness that is another thing. Even coming to our Krishna consciousness camp, they are sleeping.
This camp is not made for eating and sleeping. But for cultivating Krishna.
So anywhere, here and there, the policy should be, that everyone is employed. Everyone is busy. Then there will be nice civilization. If everyone is busy then he cannot cultivate something rascaldom.
That is vedic civilization. It is the duty of the king to see, that everyone is working. Either as a brahmana, ksatriya, or as a sudra.
Everyone is working. Then there is peace.
At the present moment we can see that on account of this machine there is unemployment and lazy fellow.
What do you think – these hippies are lazy, that’s all. They don’t want to do anything. What do you think?
One side laziness and one side unemployment. This is not a very good situation. Everyone should be employed. There is a verse in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 3.8)….in India we have seen, many villagers come and they request one shopkeeper or any gentleman, please give me some work, I don’t want salary. If you like you can give me to eat. Otherwise I don’t want that also.
Who is that gentlemen, if you work at my place, I won’t give you to eat?
Immediately he gets some occupation, simply on the basis of eating only. So he gets shelter. So when he’s working and the man sees he’s working very nicely, alright you take some salary. So therefore they say that instead of unemployment it is better to work without salary or without any regular employment. This is very good principle. Nobody should be allowed to remain lazy without any work. That is a very dangerous position. Modern civilization on account of the machine there is so much unemployment and so many lazzies also. So this is not good. It is not freedom, it is rather freeway to hell, that’s all.
It is not freedom. Everyone should be engaged in work according to his capacity.
If you have got better intelligence you may be employed as a brahmana. Do the work of brahmana, study sastras and write books, give knowledge to others, teach others. That is brahmana’s business.
And you don’t bother for your subsistance, society will supply. Therefore, brahmana they did not work. They are busy with the study of vedic literature, teaching others and giving knowledge. And society gives them – food. This is brahmana. And ksatriya means to give protection. There will be danger, there will be attack, the ksatriya will protect.
And for that purpose the ksatriya used to levy tax. So their business is to levy tax. Similarly the less intelligent class, the mercantile community, they engage themselves in producing food and giving protection to the cows. These things are required. And rest, sudras, they help other three higher classes. This is natural division. And that is very good. That means everyone is employed. The intelligent class is employed, the managerial class, mercantile class is employed, and the rest sudra, they are also employed. So there is no, I mean to say, forming party, political party, and fighting, there was no such thing. The king was the supervisor to see that everyone is engaged and everyone is engaged actually in their respective duties so they have no time to form false political parties and make agitation and fight one another. There is no such chance. [….]
Couldn’t find this in my vedabase, why isn’t this there?
Asok Kumar das says: Couldn’t find this in my vedabase, why isn’t this there?
I checked the latest version of the VedaBase, 2012.1, and sure enough: It’s not there.
But, according to:
http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/01-10/editorials5662.htm
…it’s from the questions and answers at the end of a Bhagavad-gita class given in Geneva on June 6, 1974. It seems that the Bhaktivedanta Archives transcriber got lazy and skipped transcribing that part of the recording!
“Never trust a woman or a politician.”
(This quote occurs 3 times in VedaBase 2012.1.)
When Harikes bought a villa in Monte Carlo (1999) this was the last straw. Due “chain of mysterious failures” GBC was in predicament. They changed statutes from, “Srila Prabhupada personally selected eleven successor acaryas” into, “Prabhupada wanted all his disciples to be next acaryas”. During 80ies and 90ies situation was vice versa.
At that time ISKCON’s zonal gurus figured that they had divided the world into zones – whole earth was zoned – and this would be sufficient to initiate all new devotees. At one point ISKCON gurus felt that presence of non-initiating godbrothers was rather an annoyance.
They figured new bhaktas should relate to their guru. Godbrothers of a guru standing in between guru-disciple relationship creates distraction. In consequence they conspired to make Prabhupada disciples leave ISKCON. These Prabhupada disciples would not leave voluntary, questionable means was required.
Having made all those “adjustment of the terms” they also changed other things. When it rains, it pours. In Europe monks require compulsory health insurance / old age insurance. At one point there were no more devotees living in the temple. Temples open on Sunday only and paid personnel as temple staff.
In this way step by step ISKCON going conform with materialistic guidelines. Atheistic evolutionary theory is not challenged anymore. Prabhupada’s farm project put on hold. Book changes to make Prabhupada’s literary work look strange. Prabhupada’s book distribution program to be back at square one. Like that, downgrading more and more.
That article above is not within Vedabase is not accidental. It is further proof how ISKCON / GBC watered down Prabhupada’s formula and gave in to western governmental policy.
Ironically to say, meanwhile non-Vaishnavas have adopted Prabhupada’s teachings. Everywhere in western cities you are having now grow vegetables movements, intelligent design movements and stop killing animals movements.
ISKCONites have to ignore all this development because they deleted these points from their preaching strategy. What they lately do instead (facebook), all day imitating Gaudiya-matha folks, “Radhe, Radhe”, indicating they don’t want to have anything to do with mitigate the miseries of suffering humanity.
(Honolulu, June 15, 1975, Sunday Feast Lecture)
Avinas Das says: That article above [not having been included in the] VedaBase is not accidental. It is further proof how ISKCON [and the] GBC [have] watered down Prabhupada’s formula and [instead are conforming to] Western governmental policy.
(http://groups.google.com/group/istagosthi/msg/89b56228c37ac4a1)