760302 - Morning Walk - Mayapur
Hṛdayānanda: There is a... There is a problem to some extent, but I don't think it should be exaggerated.
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Hṛdayānanda: ...that you should be disturbed. It's not that everything is collapsing like that.
Prabhupāda: No, no, they should be engaged in some...
Devotee: How can you say the situation...?
Prabhupāda: ...cottage industry. Cottage industry.
Hṛdayānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: And we can manufacture so many things.
Hṛdayānanda:: Yes.
Prabhupāda: The engagement must be there.
Hṛdayānanda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: It can be organized. The children should be raised Kṛṣṇa devotees. The woman can be engaged. Everyone can be engaged. I can give you suggestion if you can execute.
Hṛdayānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, we were thinking that it would be nice to have the cities, city-centers, for the preachers, and those, for example, women, children, it's much easier to maintain them on our farms. That way they can do a little work and produce their own food and...
Prabhupāda: Yes, in the farms they can live and do some handwork.
Hṛdayānanda: Yes.
Guru-kṛpā: They won't do it, though, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Hṛdayānanda: They must do.
Prabhupāda: Then you don't allow. Don't allow that. Don't allow.
Guru-kṛpā: That's good.
Hṛdayānanda: Maintenance is much more simple, easier, less expensive for them on a farm.
Prabhupāda: If they do not follow the rules and regulations, then what is the use?
Hṛdayānanda: We were thinking that unless someone is a preacher, he has no real business in the city. Let him go have a peaceful life out on the farm.
Yaśodānandana: It has been seen that when many householders come together in many of our big communities, because there are so many women and children, there is a great atmosphere of laziness a lot of times. I have seen in Los Angeles and also in many other temples. But when there's a lot of brahmacārīs preaching, it's much more enlivening.
Prabhupāda: So now you make some regulation. Otherwise... Attending class? No.
Hṛdayānanda: Excuse me?
Prabhupāda: They attend class?
Gargamuni: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Gargamuni: Yeah, they attend aratikas and class because there's no other activity there.
Prabhupāda: No, that is also good.
Gargamuni: No, they should attend. They are attending. I have... We had nice... Bhakti... Your Guru Mahārāja appearance day, we had nice program. Some people came...
Prabhupāda: Everyone should be engaged. That's all. No idle life. That should be... Karma jyāyo hy akarma-kṛt. (sic) What is that? Śarīra-yātrāpi te na prasiddhyed akarmanaḥ. Ah. Niyata.... Niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ karma jyāyoḥ' akarmanaḥ, śarīra yātrāpi te. Kṛṣṇa never encouraged laziness, never encouraged. [break] "...people are maintaining some lazy men." Then everything will be spoiled.
Gargamuni: That boy, Mahendra, told me when you, he came back. I met him in Germany. He said that you remarked that our society is not love-making society. But there are so many of these things are going on, and there is...
Prabhupāda: Yes, I have seen In Vṛndāvana.
Gargamuni: ...a burden for maintaining our temples because there's so many of these women and children with no husbands.
Guru-kṛpā: Actually, in...
Gargamuni: Because they do not take marriage life seriously in this age.
Guru-kṛpā: In the temples, they engage the brahmacārīs to support the householders.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Guru-kṛpā: The brahmacārīs are supporting the householders.
Prabhupāda: How?
Guru-kṛpā: Well, they are doing the saṅkīrtana and collecting the funds, and the householders are spending.
Prabhupāda: [break] ...nature. Uparvata pani. (?) [break]
Jayapatāka: About five brahmacārīs went down there, and they were lifting the karāi on the head, and they were encouraging the men, and the people became... And Guru-kṛpā was coming and Gargamuni... The people were so happy that the devotees were there. They were working much harder.
Prabhupāda: When a man takes his work in his own hand, it is sure to be done. So all of you encourage them.
Jayapatāka : Maheśvara commented that although all day we're yelling at the men, when the work is over, they are laughing and saying, "Hare Kṛṣṇa."
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is association, a mass movement. [break] ...our boy, especially boy, in solitary place, then spoiled. Then the māyā is there immediately. That is very dangerous. (end)