Srila Prabhupada, Dallas, March 4, 1975: […] In this morning walk we saw that such a big nation, but the problem is food problem. Early in the morning at six o’clock, they are going to work. They are going to work. Why? Now, for finding out the necessities of life. So what is this civilization?
Early in the morning, six o’clock… According to Vedic civilization, one should rise early in the morning and chant Hare Krishna, perform mangala aratrika, worship the Deity. This is the morning business. But the richest nation of the world, they are going to work at 6:30 for earning their bread.
Is it very good progress of life? And the whole day they will have to work. Not only here, everywhere, for earning their daily bread, they have to go fifty miles, hundred miles away from home, and every city, in India also, the same thing, in Bombay. They are coming hundred miles off and hanging in the daily passenger railway, very serious condition.
And it is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam that a human being at the end of the Kali- yuga will have to work… They are already working like an ass, and actually they will have to work like an ass simply to get their bread. The progress will be this. And not only that, the foodstuff, especially the sattvika foodstuff like fruits and vegetables, milk, rice, wheat, sugar, these things will be not available—completely stopped.
So gradually we shall make such advancement. I have seen practically. I went to Moscow, and at least for us, it was very difficult to live there. There is no rice supply. There is no wheat supply. Very rarely… No vegetables, no fruit, some rotten fruit like raspberry and… So at least for us it was very difficult. Of course, milk is available and flesh. Oh, that you can have, as much as you like.
So that is not human life. Human life is… Here it is described, just Kaviraja Gosvami’s, mat-sarvasva-padambhojau radha-madana-mohanau.
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