# COW PROTECTION, FARMS, SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ## Cow Protection ![[letters/1968/680111_gargamuni|If it is possible to keep sufficient number of cows in theasrama, there can be very nice milk business and that may make sufficient income for maintaining one institution for educating children in Krsna consciousness. Actually, the modern educatio...]] —Hamsaduta, 11 January, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680717_brahmananda|The New Vrndavana idea is that persons who live there will accept the hare necessities of life to maintain the body and soul together and the major part of time should be engaged in development of Krsna consciousness.]] —Hayagriva, 17 July, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680822_mr._david_exley._david_exley._david_exley|am sure this prasada attraction will make our neighbors friendly and surely they will come in number in future so that New Vrndavana will be ideal place for visiting from the neighboring provinces, counties,]] —Hayagriva and Kīrtanānanda Swami, 22 August, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681126_kirtanananda|Regarding the six year old cow, it is too old and]] —Kīrtanānanda, 26 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1970/700716_nevatiaji]] —Nevatiaji, 16 July, 1970 --- ![[letters/1972/720213_hayagriva]] —Hayagriva, 13 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1974/740107_malati|I was very pleased to hear your report of our cow protection program, and I had part of your letter read aloud to a group of devotees how you have one cow who will be giving 70-80 pounds a day. The cow is so wonderful and valuable in society.]] —Kīrtanānanda Maharaja, 7 January, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740907_batu_gopala|I was so happy to see the farms and the cows. Unfortunately they will kill the cows. So if we organize a farm without killing any cows, that will be a great example]] —Hamsaduta, 7 September, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741005_kirtanananda]] —Kīrtanānanda Maharaja, 5 October, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741218_rupanuga|What do you think of exporting nice United States cows such as the ones you have there and in New Vrindavana to India so we can raise them in our Vrindavana and Mayapur projects and provide nice milk? Is it possible?]] —Rupanuga, 18 December, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750408_gupta|travel to the centers here where we keep cows and try to establish a very high cow-protection standard. Our cow protection program in India should be the exemplary standard for the whole world.]] —Devakinandana dasa, 8 April, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750526_hasyakari|If the GBC has no objection to your going to India to help with the cow program, then I encourage you to go there. This program is very, very important.]] —Hasyakari, 26 May, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750531_hansadutta|give so much milk, that the ground of New Vrndavana will he muddy with milk. European and American civilization will be finished on account of this sinful activity of killing the cows.]] —Klrtanananda Swami, 31 May, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750909_hansadutta|Cow protection is one of the items of the Krsna consciousness movement:]] —Hamsaduta dasa, 9 September, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751109_jagadisa|Regarding Miami, it is very good news that they have gotten their land and they have got cows and it is good news to know that the cows will live on eating the mango leaves. This is the injunction of Krsna in Bhagavad-gita, to produce enough food ...]] —Satsvarupa Maharaja, 9 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751110_bahudak|I am glad also that you have a new gosala. Let other farms see what is our behavior for the cows and how we derive benefit from them and that will be the living example to persons who are using cow flesh rather than cow milk.]] —Kīrtanānanda Swami, 10 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751207_sivarama|Our cows are happy, therefore they give plenty of milk. Vedic civilization gives protection to all the living creatures, especially the cows,]] —Rupanuga dasa, 7 December, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760122_jayatirtha|Another thing, is that the grhasthas may be encouraged to do agriculture. In the Indian villages like in Vrndavana, they get enough ghee for their personal use and sufficient excess to be sold to the merchants, who then also get some money. Cow pr...]] —Jayatirtha, 22 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760711_krishna_dasa]] —Krishna dasa, 11 11, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/761025_whom_it_may_concern|You are taking care of the cows. That is cow puja. Don't bother with anything else. Keep yourself in Krsna consciousness by strictly observing the regulative principles and chanting sixteen rounds. Always keep engaged in Krsna's service.]] —Advaitacarya dasa, 25 October, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/761128_sridhara]] —Yasomatinandana dasa, 28 November, 1976 --- ![[letters/1977/770103_amarendra|Why artificial insemination? We should avoid that. The physiology is, if the semina is more, then comes bull.]] —Balavanta dasa, 3 January, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770328_candravali|Regarding keeping the cows, unless there is sufficient grazing land and cultivation, it is very difficult. But there has been some discussion about having a farm in California. You may write to Ramesvara Maharaja and Satsvarupa Maharaja in this re...]] —Candravali dasi, 28 March, 1977 --- ## Farms and Simple Living ![[letters/1968/680614_hayagriva|The less we are anxious for maintaining our body and soul together, the more we]] —Hayagriva, 14 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680714_hayagriva|Another thing, I shall not advise you to purchase horses for conveyance. It will be a botheration for you, because now you have not got sufficient assistance. If you keep horses you have to take care for them and for a little convenience of transp...]] —Hayagriva, 14 July, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680817_hayagriva]] —Hayagriva, 17 August, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680922_kirtanananda|am very glad to learn that all the members there are doing very nicely, and living happily. I hope that New Vrindavana will give shelter to so many unhappy men of this country and they will be happy by working there and living there in good associ...]] —Kīrtanānanda, 22 September, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681017_rayarama|Nobody should take to very hardship labor. The modern civilization had discovered severe types of dangerous industries and laborers are attracted for high wages. But they should not accept such work.]] —Rayarama, 17 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681208_kirtanananda|I have noted from your letter that you have available a Lincoln automobile which you are able to donate to us in Los Angeles. At the present we are requiring just such a car so I think you may make arrangements to have it brought here. This is all...]] —Kīrtanānanda, 8 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681208_kirtanananda|You have asked whether you may use charcoals to use for fuel during the winter and since this is the simplest thing to use in your present situation, certainly it is all right.]] —Kīrtanānanda, 8 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681227_himavati|Actually, I have no desire to start the school in any city. City life, especially in this Age of Kali-yuga, is very much polluted. Poet Cowper stated that the city is made by man and the village is made by God.]] —Satydbhama, 27 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690112_kirtanananda|So these duties are there in New Vrndavana, and we shall have to live there self-independently, simply by raising cows, grains, fruits, and flowers.]] —Kīrtanānanda, 12 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690330_satyabhama|If we can keep cows sufficiently and grow our necessary foodstuffs, then we shall show a new way of life to your countrymen—completely spiritual life in healthy atmosphere in divine consciousness.]] —Satyabhama, 30 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690525_ananda|At present I am living in New Vrndavana. It is a very nice place, but there is no facility of modern amenities. It is completely aloof from city life, and we have to adopt so many things. In comparison to city life it is very inconvenient. But sti...]] —Ananda, 25 May, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690624_mrs._davis._davis._davis|The men should be engaged in producing vegetables, tilling the field, taking care of the animals, house construction, etc. and the women shall do the indoor activities. Of course, those who are engaged in typing, like Syama dasi, they cannot do an...]] —Kīrtanānanda, 24 June, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690731_subala|The whole idea of New Vrndavana is that men who are living there should produce their own food, of which milk is the principal thing.]] —Kīrtanānanda, 31 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/701108_hayagriva]] —Hayagriva, 8 November, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/701219_satsvarupa|That you are working hard to build cottages there in New Vrndavana is very encouraging to me. I want very much to see this project grow, so you please continue to work in this respect. So far as what materials to be used to finish the cottages, I ...]] —Nara Narayana, 19 December, 1970 --- ![[letters/1972/720102_von_paul_reed|Protect some cows, grow crops, and if possible provide fresh milk and butter for the temples nearby. And the rest of the time chant Hare Krsna and read my books.]] —Von Paul Reed, 2 January, 1972 --- ![[letters/1973/730622_makhanlal|You have asked about whether nuclear devastation on this planet would effect the sankirtana movement. No, there is nothing that can stop the sankirtana movement because it is the will of God Himself, Lord Caitanya, that His holy name be heard in e...]] —Makhanlal, 22 June, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/730723_kurusrestha|We shall be unaffected by all that will happen. Krsna will provide us with working facilities. Be assured of this, that the devotees will be protected by the holy name. Others will have to suffer in the days that are coming.]] —Kurusrestha, 23 July, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/731211_makhanlal|Yes, if you are able to acquire some farm land and produce grains that will be nice. Especially we want to export grains to India. Do not, however, change or disrupt the existing temple program. The economic situation is always precarious but we a...]] —Makhanlal, 11 December, 1973 --- ![[letters/1974/740112_mukunda|If you get local men to work at this agricultural attempt that will be better.]] —Mukunda, 12 January, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740403_gurudasa|I think we can use modern machines; to drive a tractor, for example, is as easy as driving a car.]] —Jayapataka and Bhavananda, 3 April, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740420_bhavananda_jayapataka|Also, if you purchase land it must be properly utilized. It is no use purchasing land to be wasted by costly laborers. If you actually produce some grains or vegetables, then where is the necessity for further money for maintenance.]] —Bhavananda and Jayapataka Maharajas, 20 April, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740617_malati|It is very good news that there are persons there who want to cooperate to help us start a varnasrama college project and that they may supply us land for living as an ideal community producing our own food from the land. So this should be followe...]] —Brahmananda Maharaja, 17 June, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740904_temple_president|The whole world is engaged in unnecessary hard labor with their factories. It is a brain killing civilization. Let them come to free life, spend time chanting Hare Krsna, reading books and making their lives successful.]] —SPL Rupanuga dasa, 4 September, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740907_batu_gopala|I have seen in New Vrndavana how happily our devotees are living there with fresh air, fresh vegetables and ample milk. Simple living in cottages. What more do you want? We should not neglect the upkeep of the body and we should save time to chant...]] —Hamsaduta, 7 September, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741019_hansadutta|Regarding the farm, farm opening is not very essential, but if you can do it conveniently, then do it.]] —Hamsaduta dasa, 19 October, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741215_tribhuvanatha|I am very glad to hear about your new farm asrama existing there. We want to develop many such farms all over the world. You are enthusiastic and intelligent and it appears that you are managing it nicely.]] —Bahudaka, 15 December, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741215_tribhuvanatha|To develop a farm community such as the one you are doing, it requires much hard work and endurance. But if you work sincerely then Krsna will give you all facilities and men. Therefore continue working and follow the good example that the devotee...]] —Bahudaka, 15 December, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750119_radhavallabha|Not that everyone should do these activities of farming, but if one is less intelligent, or not intelligent enough to preach nicely, he can do.]] —Mahamsa Swami, 19 January, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750202_sahadeva]] —Tusta Kṛṣṇa Swami, 2 February, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750215_svarupa_damodara|Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated February 5th, 1975 and have noted the contents. I am very glad to hear that your farm project in Mississippi is going on nicely. Develop it nicely like New Vrindavana.]] —Nityananda dasa, 15 February, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750519_mahamsa|As far as machines are concerned, it is better to avoid using them as far as possible.]] —Hamsaduta dasa, 19 May, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750701_nityananda|Your farm appears very nice, open plain land. The cows are very nice and so are the sheds. This farm project you should consider very important. The idea is that people can be self-sufficient and raise their own foodstuffs and have sufficient milk...]] —Nityananda dasa, 1 July, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750716_paramahamsa|Somehow or other you have to keep the men who are there engaged. If they are allowed to become idle, gradually they will again become hippies.]] —Paramahamsa Swami, 16 July, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750803_mahamsa|you should not be thinking to sell any of the crops for profit. That is not our purpose. The village organization is that the local people produce their necessities]] —Mahamsa Swami, 3 August, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750804_gopala_krsna|The idea is that local inhabitants will be satisfied with their bare necessities of life and their attention will be diverted towards spiritual development of life.]] —Giriraja dasa, 4 August, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750811_bon_maharaja|I am now organizing in Europe and America many farm lands so that my devotees can live there peacefully, grow their own foodstuffs, produce cloth, and save time for chanting Hare Krsna.]] —Sripada Bon Maharaja, 11 August, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750821_rupanuga]] —Nityananda dasa, 21 August, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750909_hansadutta|Regarding the farm, our business is not farming. Our business is to spread Krsna consciousness. So in favor of Krsna consciousness, whatever policy is suitable that we should take. Even if you move the farm, how will it be conducted if your devote...]] —Hamsaduta dasa, 9 September, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750929_gargamuni|The rascal leaders say it is primitive to remain on the farm, but to do business in the city and become rogue and rascal, that is advanced. They have dog race, horse race, gambling, Coca-cola, Pepsi-cola—all unnecessary.]] —Rupanuga dasa, 29 September, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751019_kartikeya_k._mahadevia._mahadevia._mahadevia|Now, our next program will be to organize farming land to set an example to the whole world how people can be peaceful, happy and free from all anxieties simply by chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra and living an honorable life in Krsna consciousness.]] —Karttikeya, 19 October, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751020_srutakirti|Regarding our farming scheme, it is almost settled that we shall get some land. Now we have to organize carefully. In this respect, I am counting upon your good help.]] —Digambhar Singh, 20 October, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751109_jagadisa|So in the Western countries they are selling their churches and farms which we require. That is also Krsna's plan. In USA there is enough land and if we organize we can become very big party, Hare Krsna party. We can occupy America and make them a...]] —Satsvarupa Maharaja, 9 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751109_jagadisa|The farming and opening the restaurant are correlative—in farming you produce enough milk and milk products, at least ghee, and the ghee is dispatched to the restaurant in the city and with that you prepare first-class samosas, kacoris, vegetables...]] —Tusta Kṛṣṇa Swami, 9 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751109_jagadisa|Regarding Atlanta, everywhere again expenditures more. Why was the airport distribution closed down in Atlanta? I am glad that their farm project is successful. Milk, fruits, flowers and also food grains can all be produced in the farm. Cannot flo...]] —Rupanuga dasa, 9 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751120_ghanasyama|Regarding the Vancouver farm, yes, the log cabin-type structure you have mentioned, that is nice. Whatever is suitable, that you should do. This is the meaning of plain living and high thinking. If the chanting of Hare Krsna is not there, then the...]] —Jayatirtha dasa, 20 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751120_ghanasyama|So far increasing the New Orleans farm, yes, if you have got more men, you can get more land.]] —Jagadisa dasa, 20 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760111_bahudak|It is good that you are again the president of the Vancouver temple. Of course the farm projects are important but more stress should be given to sankirtana. We require so much money here in India. So Jayatirtha has said right. Whatever we are doi...]] —Bahudaka, 11 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760402_v.g.k._dipple.g.k._dipple.g.k._dipple|The proposed farm project in northern California is approved by me. Such projects as well as constructing temples, protecting cows, gathering milk, then making ghee, then opening Hare Krsna Restaurants are all good programs for grhasthas.]] —Citsukhananda dasa, 2 April, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760708_balavanta|On the farms we should have mainly grhasthas. Farms are especially meant for the grhasthas.]] —Balavanta, 8 July, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760823_tusta_krsna]] —Tusta Kṛṣṇa dasa, 23 August, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/761014_sriman_bajaji|we are not going to develop a competitive farming enterprise for making money. The basic principle is to become independent of artificial city life, working in factories producing nut and bolts.]] —Yasomatinandana Prabhu, 14 October, 1976 --- ![[letters/1977/770104_balavanta|Our only motive is how to interest people in Krsna consciousness. That's all. There is no economic problem. We can produce our own food and clothes gradually and save time for spiritual life.]] —Balavanta dasa, 4 January, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770113_jayatirtha|I do not think this ship will be successful. Getting and managing a farm is a good proposal. I am encouraging farm projects everywhere. That is a very important, solid program. So do this enthusiastically and Krsna will be pleased.]] —Uthala dasa, 13 January, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770316_minakshi|As far as possible try to adjust to a natural way of life, free from dependence on machines. But our principle should he that we are against nothing and for nothing. Only for Krsna. We want whatever is favorable for Krsna.]] —Subhavilasa dasa, 16 March, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770316_minakshi|We want to do whatever is easy and save time for Krsna consciousness.]] —Nityananda dasa, 16 March, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770412_nityananda|if our householders cannot distribute books, then let them live in the farm communities. They can produce thread for cloth, spinning, and other such activities. But they must do something, not sit idly, for an idle brain is the devil's workshop.]] —Nityananda dasa, 12 April, 1977 --- ## Self-Sufficiency ![[letters/1968/681007_hayagriva|in New Vrndavana, our program is that the inhabitants should produce their own food. Somehow or other they should be self-independent. Otherwise, what is the use of occupying such great tract of land?]] —Hayagriva, 7 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690112_kirtanananda|we shall have to live there self independently, simply by raising cows, grains, fruits and flowers.]] —Kīrtanānanda, 12 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1971/710814_dinesh_babu|My idea is to purchase land for agriculture so inmates may not depend on outsiders but grow food there and things may go on nicely.]] —Dinesh Babu, 14 August, 1971 --- ![[letters/1972/720730_jayapataka|Keep a cow, then there will be no question of scarcity or relying upon somebody else for your maintenance.]] —Jayapataka, 30 July, 1972 --- ![[letters/1973/730727_tamala_krsna]] —Kīrtanānanda Maharaja, 27 July, 1973 --- ![[letters/1974/740107_malati]] —Kīrtanānanda Maharaja, 7 January, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740428_balavanta|As for land ownership, in the Vedic civilization the land was given to the people for cultivation, not for ownership, and a tax was collected which was twenty-five percent of the persons income.]] —Balavanta, 28 April, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741117_agent_central_bank_of_india|To promote Vedic research work in the area of agriculture and animal husbandry and alternative energy sources according to the historic Vedic texts for the sound and healthy development of body, mind, and soul; and to promote and distribute this r...]] —Draft of Additions to Memorandum of Association for Calcutta Registration, 17 November, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741218_rupanuga]] —Rupanuga, 18 December, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750701_nityananda|farm appears very nice, open plain land. The cows are very nice and so are the sheds. This farm project you should consider very important. The idea is that people can be self sufficient and raise their own foodstuffs and have sufficient milk to s...]] —Nityananda dasa, 1 July, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750831_minister_for_land_revenue|If you could kindly give over these lands to use we could develop it into a self- sufficient community producing foodstuffs, grains and vegetables, milk products and cloth]] —Minister for Land and Revenue, 31 August, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750929_gargamuni|you get from all the farms all your necessities, then it will be successful. Fodder, milk, grains, vegetables, and animals and man will be satisfied, and you can chant Hare Krsna. No unnecessary cow killing and no unnecessary needs of the body. Th...]] —Rupanuga dasa, 29 September, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751120_ghanasyama|Regarding the New Orleans farm, do not make sugar. Just boil it and make molasses. You can eat the molasses instead of sugar.]] —Jagadisa dasa, 20 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751217_mahamsa|We are developing a plan there to be self-sufficient. Namely, to produce our food grains, maintain cows for drinking milk, and weave cloth for garments, and for this purpose we want a considerable tract of land.]] —Sriman M.N. Chaudhuri, 17 December, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760111_rupanuga|We shall never use this artificial fertilizer on our farms. It is forbidden in the sastras. If you plant easily grown crops once in the year, then the earth will not become exhausted. Don't over use the land.]] —Rupanuga, 11 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760324_devotees|I wish the temple community to be self-sufficient by producing their own food grains. In foreign countries we are organizing our centers on this principle. Here also in Mayapur we are doing the same thing,]] —Bahu, 24 March, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/761107_bhagavan|Have there been rains at New Mayapur? There should at least be rains in our area. Yes, increase the flowers. You have got sufficient space. Produce flowers, fruits, vegetables and grains in ample quantities. We should be fully self-sufficient. I l...]] —Bhagavan, 7 November, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/761115_syamasundarji|As we are doing in Mayapur and many other places, I want to develop self-sufficient centers with cloth and food production by the devotees locally and save time as much as possible to devote themselves to chant Hare Krsna.]] —Syamasundarji, 15 15, 1976 --- ## Economic Development ![[letters/1968/680111_gargamuni|I have already discussed in my Srimad-Bhagavatam, for economic problem one requires a little land and a few cows. Then the whole economic problem is solved.]] —Hamsaduta, 11 January, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680817_hayagriva|The life should be simplified without being hampered by laboring day and night for economic development, without any spiritual understanding.]] —Hayagriva, 17 August, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681017_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 17 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681219_gargamuni|The fruits of our work are always given to Krsna and so Krsna accepts the responsibility of what these fruits shall be. So this is our principle of work]] —Gargamuni, 19 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680111_gargamuni]] —Hamsaduta, 11 January, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690302_janardana]] —Janardana, 2 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690314_rupanuga|So the Western type of civilization, industrialism and capitalism, is no material advancement. It is material exploitation.]] —Rupanuga, 14 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700606_radha_madhava_sharan|after material opulence the natural tendency is for something which is better. That better thing is spiritual enlightenment.]] —Sri Radha Madhava Sharan, 6 June, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700716_nevatiaji|So a person or a community or nation, when in the top position of material enjoyment still does not find any peace, he searches after something better. That is the position of the Western countries.]] —Nevatiaji, 16 July, 1970 --- ![[letters/1973/731211_makhanlal|Yes, if you are able to acquire some farm land and produce grains that will be nice. Especially we want to export grains to India. Do not, however, change or disrupt the existing temple program. The economic situation is always precarious but we a...]] —Makhanlal, 11 December, 1973 --- ![[letters/1975/751020_srutakirti|Herewith please find one letter for Digambhar Singh Chowdhury your friend. The letter speaks for itself, as you will see, and now we have to hold meetings for organizing the Krsan community, better the Vaisya community, for producing food and milk...]] —Sriman Visvambhara Dayala Agarwal, 20 October, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751218_all_temple_presidents|they are now in favor of economic development and technological advancement which can never do any good to the people in general, neither material nor spiritual.]] —Tulasi dasa, 18 December, 1975 --- --- **[← Back to Śikṣāmṛta](wiki/compile/siksamrita)**