Flooded rice fields
Prabhupada, Geneva, June 6, 1974: […] So I have studied it very thoroughly. If people produce food grain in all the lands available all over the world, they can feed ten times population than it is at present. Krishna has made such arrangement.
In the Isopanisad, it is said, purnam adah purnam idam purnat purnam udacyate [Isopanisad, Invocation]. In the creation of Krishna, there cannot be any scarcity. Everything is sufficiently there. Purnam, it is complete, perfectly made, either this planet, that planet.
Everywhere, the living entities are there, and Krishna has made provision for every one of them. There is no question of scarcity. But people are not obeying the orders of Krishna or the authorities, that “You produce…” Annad bhavanti bhutani. Even in Bible, it is said, “Thou shalt not kill.”
They are not producing food grains, and they are killing the animals and eating. In Australia, in Africa, they have got enough land, but the government… maybe they have no sufficient men to utilize the land, but they won’t allow any outsider to go there who can produce.
I have seen in Africa. Very, very large tract of land was lying vacant, nobody is producing any food. They are producing coffee. That is not the local men. The Britishers who have gone there, they are producing coffee, tea, and keeping some cows for slaughtering. This is going on. In Australia, also, I have seen.
Even some priestly class. They invited me, received me, received me very well. So one of the priests, he inquired that “Why our Christian religion is dwindling? What we have done?” And actually, that’s a fact. I have seen, in London at least, the churches are for sale.
Nobody’s going to the church. Some of the churches have been taken for making go-down, storehouse or some factory. Many hundreds of thousands… In London there are many churches.
Churches are there in New York also, other places. Formerly, people were religious. It doesn’t matter whether one constructed temple or church. It doesn’t matter. There was prayer to the Supreme. But now people are forgetting.
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