## "I Wanted to Introduce This" Vṛndāvana, October 8, 1977 - Room Conversation Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma Temple **Live simply, grow your own food, produce your own cloth...varṇāśrama spreads and sustains Kṛṣṇa consciousness..."Do it"...no social scheme can be successful unless varṇāśrama is instituted** **Prabhupāda:** No luxuries. Live very simple life and you save time for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. **Haṁsadūta:** Yes, Prabhupāda. **Prabhupāda:** That is my desire. Don't waste time for bodily comforts. You have got this body. **You have to eat something. You have to cover yourself. So produce your own food and produce your own cloth. **Don't waste time for luxury, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. This is success of life. In this way organize as far as possible, either in Ceylon or in Czechoslovakia, wherever... Save time. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Don't be allured by the machine civilization. **Haṁsadūta:** Yes, Prabhupāda. **Prabhupāda:** **This is soul-killing civilization, this kind way of life, especially European countries. Anywhere you can inhabit it. It is not very difficult. A cottage; you can produce your own food anywhere. Am I right?** **Haṁsadūta:** Yes, Prabhupāda. We will do it. **Prabhupāda:** And money, spend for Kṛṣṇa—for Kṛṣṇa's palace, for Kṛṣṇa's temple, for Kṛṣṇa's worship, gorgeous, as gorgeously as... Not for false... This is the human civilization. **And to organize this, *varṇāśrama* will help you to divide the society—*brāhmaṇa*, *kṣatriya*, *vaiśya*—as there is division in the body. That will help. **Don't waste human form of body for sense gratification. **I wanted to introduce this. Now I have given you ideas. You can do it.** You are all intelligent. For Caitanya Mahāprabhu's *para-upakāra*... [*Cc Ādi *[[cc/adi/9/41|9.41]]] So you do good to others. **Not exploit others. Any human being who has been bestowed by this body has the capacity to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Give them chance and make situation favorable. Is that clear?** **...Hari-śauri:** Tamāla Kṛṣṇa is here, Śrīla Prabhupāda. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. **Prabhupāda:** **What meeting going on?** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Oh, very interesting meeting. Paramānanda, Vāmanadeva, Tripurāri Mahārāja, Ādi-keśava Mahārāja and myself **discussing our Gītā-nagarī community and talking about *varṇāśrama*. Very, very... We were trying to reflect on all of the teachings in your books** and what we had read about Kṛṣṇa's life and Nanda Mahārāja's community. **Prabhupāda:** Hm? **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** **How the *vaiśya* community lives, how the different *varṇas* and *āśramas* function together, and what their responsibilities are to each other. We're trying to set up our Gītā-nagarī community based upon the teachings which you've given in your books. **It is very enlivening and stimulating meeting. Dhṛṣṭadyumna Mahārāja will be coming tomorrow with his brother. And he has designed the very ideal plan for all of the *varṇas* and *āśramas* to live together. **Prabhupāda: Hm. Do it.** No Success Without Varṇāśrama, Vṛndāvana, October 18, 1977: Room Conversation