## Simple Living, Good Health New York, July 14, 1976 Interview With Newsday Newspaper Plain living, high thinking...come to our farms and see how we are living independently...simple living promotes good health **Interviewer:** How important is it to look after physical life? **Prabhupāda:** **Physical life, so you must keep yourself fit to execute Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is not our desire that you become sick and you cannot chant. **But our purpose is to chant and we require the physical necessities just to keep ourselves fit, not more than that. Eating is necessary. Without eating, I will die. So we take Kṛṣṇa *prasādam*, not in the restaurant or hotel anything, no. **We take nice vegetables, nice food grains, rice, wheat, sugar, milk, all vitaminous, full of vitamins. So there is no deficiency of food. Even from food value it is very nice. **We do not unnecessarily kill animals. **Interviewer:** You run farms as well, do you not? **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Yes. **Interviewer:** What do they... **Prabhupāda:** So you try to... **Interviewer:** **Are they working farms, producing farms?** **Prabhupāda:** **Yes, there are many farms in your country.** Just now I am coming from New Vrindāban in West Virginia. They are living. If you go sometime, you can see how independently they are living. And there are other farms, New Orleans, and just now we are going tomorrow... **Rāmeśvara:** Pennsylvania. **Prabhupāda:** Pennsylvania. **So we get enough milk, enough food grains, enough fruits. So there is no economic problem. Our purpose is to save time from unnecessary necessities of life, from unnecessary necessities of life, to save time and utilize the time for developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. **And so far the body is concerned, as much as it is required take and maintain the body. That's all. **Interviewer:** Your devotees' health is looked after, then. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. **Interviewer:** By who? **Prabhupāda:** **They are instructed in that way, plain living, high thinking.** **Interviewer:** Do you have arrangements with hospitals in case somebody gets sick, and do you watch diet carefully and...? **Prabhupāda:** Oh, yes. Why not? Why not? **Take care of the body. But we keep our habits in such a way that we don't fall sick very often.** Living as Krsna Lived, Philadelphia, July 15, 1976: Evening Lecture at **Gītā-**N**agarī** Farm