## Agriculture: The Noblest Profession New Vrindaban, June 22, 1976 Prabhupāda Visits Palace and Garden **Simple living...agriculture, the noblest profession.. nation concept versus varṇāśrama concept ** **Andhra Pradesh: **What are these pipes? **Kīrtanānanda:** That's for drainage. For when the water goes out into the sewer, and goes out into the field and drains. **Prabhupāda:** You can utilize this water for fertilizing, drain water. **Kīrtanānanda:** Well, first of all, we have to satisfy the health department... **Kīrtanānanda:** We're trying to clear all this now too. **Prabhupāda:** This is ours? **Kīrtanānanda:** Yes. **Prabhupāda:** Oh. **Kīrtanānanda:** It takes a long time to clear it, though. **Prabhupāda:** Never mind. Do slowly, that is pleasure. **Kīrtanānanda:** Well, we could do it much faster if we didn't try to utilize the wood, but we want to utilize. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Unnecessarily you should not cut. **When it is necessary for Kṛṣṇa, then you cut. This is also living entity. We cannot kill them without any sufficient reason...** **Agriculture is the noblest profession. **Give him some land, he cuts the wood, makes cottages. The land is clear, now till it, keep cows and grow food grains. **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** Doesn't put any local men out of work. **Prabhupāda: Simple thing. And then live comfortably, eat comfortably, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.** Comfortably does not mean satisfaction of the senses. Comfortably means we require primary necessities, to eat something, to sleep somewhere or have some sex—this is also bodily need—and to defend, that's all. **These are the primary necessities. That can be arranged anywhere. God has given all facilities. Grow your own food, eat, and live anywhere.** Just this place was rough like that, now it is handled nicely, it is very attractive. (Bengali) Any damn place, you cleanse it, it becomes home. And any nasty man, you decorate him, he becomes a bridegroom. (laughs) (Bengali) (*japa*) Let Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement give this sense to these rascals. They do not know how to adjust things. They simply plan their United Nations, but they do not know what is that plan. Yes. United Nations. First of all why nation? Why manufacture nation and create trouble and again un-united? **Nation—this word is not there in the Vedic language. ** **There's no conception of nation. There is conception of *varṇāśrama*, everywhere**. Not for any particular nation or any particular country, but everyone, according to quality—first-class men, second-class men, third-class men. That is there everywhere. Everywhere you go, you find some people first-class intelligent, some people less than him, some people less than him, up to fourth class, that's all. And then fifth class. So everything is there in the *Bhagavad-gītā*. **Now you try to implement. Perfect human life. Let any sociologist, politician come forward. We shall convince them that this is only way. ** Plain Living, High Thinking, New Vrindaban, June 24, 1976: Room Conversation