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Village economy

Thanks to Srinath Prabhu for this quote:

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Prabhup€da: A local man cannot get. He's starving. And the man in big cities, he's doing nothing, he simply has got paper to sign and paper money he's attracting. All production. And they are starving. This is modern civilization. Everything, milk, vegetables, fish, everything, this ch€n€. Otherwise, within the village you can get everything. Village economy. Everything very cheap. And as soon as they got these transport facilities, the local men, they could not eat, and these lazy rascals, they are getting everything. Big, big cities like Calcutta, Bombay, they (have) millions of population. They are not producing anything. The producer is different man. They are simply artificially cheating them by paper money and they take. This is modern civilization... Simply creating problems. Lavana haila ithe gatila jagya.(?) This modern civilization, they could not make any profit. They have created some problems, that's all. Very dangerous civilization.

*Room conversation, Vrindavana, Sept 16, 1976*

"First you make them human, then you talk about United Nations"

Thanks to Nanda Kumar Prabhu and H.H. Bhakti Vikas Maharaj for this post!

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Subject: Re: Fw: Srila Prabhupada in Mauritius
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Bhargava das: Mauritius was developed by two devotees. It's a small island off the east coast of Africa. Prabhupada said some very profound things in Mauritius. He was very serious with the young people who came to visit him.
He didn't like the idea of dependence on a cash crop. Sugarcane was the cash crop.
His comment to those young people was "The first duty of a nation is
to become self-sufficient." And that was an extremely profound statement because if you look at the world situation and you look at so many of the trouble spots, it's all about trying to exploit somebody else's natural resources - like America and Europe trying to exploit the oil resources of other areas. And if each country would take that seriously, becoming self-sufficient, you wouldn't have these major conflicts going on in the world.

So when Prabhupada said that, it was extremely profound. When one of them asked, "What is your movement doing to help the world?" he said, "We're taking animals and turning them into human beings," and then he gave a very fiery lecture. Then at the end he told Brahmananda, "Take the tape of this and send it to Back to Godhead, and they should make an article out of this.
The title of the article should be 'First you make them human, then you talk about United Nations.'"

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Thanks to Nanda Kumar Prabhu for this interesting post!

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Madhya Pradesh bans cow slaughter

Thanks to Lala Krishna Prabhu for this wonderful news!

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Madhya pradesh Govt has enforced a rule that bans cow slaughter!
Here is the link.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/MP-Cow-Progeny-Slaughter-Prevention-Bill-gets-presidential-nod/articleshow/11350002.cms

Your humble Servant,
Lala Krishna Das.
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BHOPAL: President Pratibha Patil has granted her assent to the long-pending Madhya Pradesh Cow Progeny Slaughter Prevention (Amendment) Bill which proposes seven-year imprisonment for cow slaughter.

The Gau-Vansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Vidheyak has received the Presidential approval following which it has become an act and has subsequently been published in the extraordinary gazette, an official release said today.

In fulfillment of its commitment to protecting and conserving cow progeny, the state government had passed the amendment bill in the state Assembly in 2010 to remove the flaws in the Madhya Pradesh Gauvansh Pratishedh Adhiniyam 2004 (Madhya Pradesh Cow Progeny Slaughter Prevention Regulation), the release said.

The amendment act also obviated the difficulties and to make the provisions more stringent.

With the enforcement of the amended act, now the responsibility of proving the prosecution wrong would lie with the accused in case of cow slaughter.

Similarly, a guilty of cow slaughter would be liable to imprisonment for seven years instead of present three years and a minimum fine of Rs 5,000 which may be increased by the court.

The amended act provides that no person shall slaughter or cause to be slaughtered or offered for slaughter of any cow progeny by any means.

Besides, no person, including transporter, shall transport or offer for transport or cause to be transported any cow progeny himself or by his agent, servant or by any other person acting in his behalf within the state or outside the state for the purpose of its slaughter in contravention of the provisions of the Act or with the knowledge that it will be or is likely to be slaughtered.

The amended Act also has provisions for specifying necessary actions for feeding and rearing the cow progeny.

Under the Act, any police officer not below the rank of head constable or any person authorised in this behalf by competent authority shall have the power of entry, inspection, search and seizure and to present the case in the court.

It may be mentioned here that the state government had forwarded the amendment Bill on September 3, 2010 to the Union Home Ministry for Presidential nod.

The assent was received on December 22, 2011. The amended Act has been published in the extraordinary gazette of Madhya Pradesh on December 31, 2011.

The state government would take action for enforcement of the amended Act through a notification.

Vechur of Kerala - World's smallest cow breed

Many thanks to H.H.Bhakti Rasamrta Maharaj for this wonderful post!

Incidentally, I am in Kerala at present and was heading to meet this man!

Both articles (5th Jan and 6th Jan) are pasted below along with their links.
YS,BCD.

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Hare Krishna,dear Bharat Chandra prabhu,I thought I should inform you about
two nice articles in the Hindu newspaper of 5th & 6th January written by
P.Sainath on the Vechur cows.I am not aware of how to send the articles to
the Global Varnasrama mission conference.Perhaps you could do that.Regards,Bhakti Rasamrita Swami
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1) http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/article2775282.ece
2) http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/article2778130.ece


DATE: January 5, 2012

Holy cow! Small is beautiful
P. Sainath

Chandran ‘Master’ with the tiny Vechur calf, the latest addition to his diverse herd. He has animals of 11 different indigenous breeds in his compound. Photo: P. Sainath
The Hindu Chandran ‘Master’ with the tiny Vechur calf, the latest addition to his diverse herd. He has animals of 11 different indigenous breeds in his compound. Photo: P. Sainath

Endemic species of cow faces extinction Call for steps to conserve indigenous livestock breeds Milk of the indigenous Vechur cow beneficial to health Cattle class: native vs exotic

Kerala 'masters' struggle to keep alive rare cattle breeds.

When Kerala Agriculture Minister K.P. Mohanan paid Chandran ‘Master' Rs.15,000 for a Vechur calf last September, he was rewarding a conscious law-breaker. Yet, the Minister, on behalf of the Livestock Development Board, was doing the right thing — and everyone approved. Chandran ‘Master' and other intrepid souls have helped keep Kerala's unique cattle varieties alive. This, despite antiquated laws that made the breeding of such animals by farmers illegal without a licence from the State's Director of Animal Husbandry. And through some years when livestock inspectors relentlessly castrated the bulls of these ‘inferior' breeds, boosting the dominance of crossbred cattle.

This flowed partly from the idea that higher milk yields, regardless of costs and consequences, were all that mattered. In what could mark an attitude shift, the State is now paying rebel farmers for resisting its own depredations.

Chandran Master keeps 24 head of cattle, mostly rare indigenous breeds, in the compound of his home in P. Vemballur village of Thrissur district. These include the tiny Vechur cow, symbol of Kerala's domestic cattle crisis. By 2000, the animal was on the FAO's World Watch List of Domestic Animal Diversity, in its ‘Critical-Maintained Breeds List.' A variety makes that list “when the number of breeding females” is 100 or less. Or when “the total number of breeding males” is five or less. Or if the overall count is 120 or less, and falling.
Smallest cattle breed

In Chandran Master's home, the count is rising. “I gave the Livestock Board five Vechur calves,” he says proudly. And got two Gir calves and Rs. 45,000 in return. A tiny Vechur calf had been born — in his compound — just six hours before we arrived there. Her mother, a fine animal, is 82 cm high. The Vechur is the world's smallest cattle breed. November 2010 saw Diana, a 77-cm Vechur (also from Thrissur district), enter the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest cow in the world.

(http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-8000/smallest-cow-(height)/)

Mostly, this breed averages around 90 cm in height and about 130 kg in weight. It yields up to 3 litres of milk a day and requires very little by way of feed or maintenance.

Alongside the “world's smallest cow” are the Vadakara Dwarf, the Kasargode Dwarf, the High Range Dwarf and other indigenous cattle breeds. The 72-year-old former school teacher scoffs at the official mind-set on cattle. “The cow for them is just a milk-production machine” he says. “Their view has no room for the composition and quality of the milk. Much less for the role of cattle in agriculture and in a farmer's life. None at all for the impact on the environment, diversity or community.”

Nambiyandra Ayyappan Chandran ‘Master' is an award-winning former English teacher who worked 36 years in Kerala and Oman. He has “pledged what remains of my life” to conserving breeds of Bos indicus (native Indian cattle). His living room sports a huge photo of the Rs.15,000 cheque from the Kerala Livestock Development Board. “Roughly what I lose each month on my passion.” But Chandran Master is okay with that.
‘Zero maintenance'

“My cows,” he points out, “are zero maintenance — they are native and do not need a high-input diet.” But he also tries to grow 30 types of mangoes and an equal number of bamboo varieties, all indigenous. Also a few native kinds of fish and many traditional plants. His son tries to bridge the household deficit through high-earning horticulture. If the family converted some of its 18 acres to real estate, he would be rich, but Chandran Master has “a mission and a passion.”

“Malayalis take the easy way out in everything,” Minister K.P. Mohanan had said while handing over the KLDB cheque. “Hence, they have not taken pains to preserve native breeds such as Vechur cow and Kasargode Dwarf. Instead, they have gone for cross-bred varieties. Malayalis should be aware of a global movement for preservation of domestic breeds of animals.” (The Hindu, Sept. 25, 2011).

However, native breeds were ruined not by people but by official policies over a long time.

Kerala's anti-indigenous drive across decades was one factor in the collapse of its native cattle numbers. Livestock Census figures show a drop of 48 per cent in the total cattle population between 1996 and 2007. But it goes back further, to when the Kerala Livestock Improvement Act of 1961 gave “the licensing officer” the “power to order castration of bulls.” And farmers ordered to castrate their bulls had 30 days to do so. An amended Act in 1968 also promised fines and imprisonment for those failing to comply.

Dr. Sosamma Iype, retired Professor, Animal Breeding and Genetics from Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) was a pioneer in reviving the Vechur breed. She and Dr. Abraham Varkey, retired Professor of Veterinary Surgery, make this point. “On the one hand, you needed a licence from the State director of the Animal Husbandry Department to be able to keep a bull. On the other, an inspector finding such a bull [Vechur or any other kind] was bound by orders to castrate it! So no one ever sought a licence!” The castrations drove some native breeds to near extinction. (Similar drives occurred in other parts of the country, notably Orissa. There, an insane project aimed at boosting milk production, all but wiped out the Khariar Bull, the best breed of the Kalahandi region by 1980. It also transformed what was then a milk-surplus region, into a milk-deficit one).

Still, the Vechur survived. Partly, says Professor Varkey, “because a few escaped, being in regions too remote or forested for the vets to reach. And partly because Temple Bulls were exempted for religious reasons.”

They also survive because of people like Sosamma Iype. She and others were part of a drive to conserve local breeds that saw the founding of the Vechur Conservation Trust in 1998. “The search for survivors, though, began in 1988,” says Prof. Iype. “And with the help of a student search team headed by Anil Zachariah, we found eight by the end of that year. We got Rs. 51,000 sanctioned by the then Vice Chancellor of KAU to buy the eight animals and provide them with feed.” Her work at KAU saw a turnaround in the fate of the Vechur breed and earned it wide recognition.
Milk yields and input costs

But don't the crossbreeds outclass native breeds in milk yield? “That can't be the only yardstick,” says Prof. Iype. “Check the milk yields against input costs. The expense of the crossbreeds is enormous. They are far more prone to outbreaks of illness as we were reminded again in 2009 during a severe outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease. There are indeed several farmers who prefer crossbreeds as an income source, through sale of milk. There are also 25-30 per cent, who prefer smaller, less costly animals. These households look at it from the point of view of home consumption, quality of milk and food security. “The Trust today promotes the cause of not only the Vechur, but other Kerala breeds of cattle, goats, pigs and ducks as well.

Back in his home in P. Vemballur village, Chandran Master wants to know: “When are you going to help me get a Khariar Bull from Orissa?”


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DATE: 6th Jan

Cattle class: native vs exotic
P. Sainath

The mother Vechur cow is 82 cm tall. Vechur is the world’s smallest cattle breed. Photo : P. Sainath

Kerala is feeling the ill-effects of an official policy that favoured disease-prone crossbreeds over low-maintenance native breeds.

Visitors flow in and out of Chandran Master's compound in P. Vemballur, Thrissur, Kerala. Students, teachers, trainees in animal husbandry work and even officials walk around like it's a public space. And in some ways, it is. People come a distance to see his 22 cows and two bulls — mostly from rare indigenous breeds. Also, the many kinds of mango, bamboo and fish he has cultivated, again species native to India. The former English teacher also boasts a classic Kathiawari horse and several native breeds of poultry. But the star attractions are the tiny Vechur — “the world's smallest cow” — and other dwarf varieties of Kerala cattle.

The visitors' interest also reflects a growing concern in the State about the fate of domestic breeds of cattle and other livestock. Like elsewhere, a strong emphasis on crossbred cattle that aimed at higher milk production also saw a sharp decline in native animals. There is now a serious debate on the results of that approach. Kerala's cattle population declined by around 48 per cent between 1996 and 2007.
Changed stance

Dr. R. Vijayakumar, Director of Kerala's Animal Husbandry Department (AHD), says the State's new breeding policy “limits exotic [that is, non-native] germplasm to 50 per cent of cattle. We are now also propagating native breeds. We even conduct artificial insemination with the semen of native bulls.” And while the number of animals may have fallen between 1996 and 2007, “milk productivity of cows in the State rose in that period. From an average of six litres a day to 8.5 litres, even as crossbreeds came to account for 87 per cent of Kerala's cattle.”

However, the cost of milk production is much higher with the crossbreeds. The feed requirement of native dwarf breeds like Vechur and Kasargode are very minor. Their feed-to-milk conversion is very good. The crossbreeds are high-maintenance animals and are disease-prone. “See this Vadakara Dwarf,” says Chandran Master. “I doubt I spend five to ten rupees on her feed daily. Still she gives me three to four litres. But the quality of her milk is highly prized and I could get Rs.50 a litre for it. So even in that way, the benefit is greater. There is no high standard of feed required either. Kitchen scraps and leftovers can be used. And they don't require special sheds or anything.” He, however, does not sell milk. He does sell “very few calves each year when the numbers exceed my capacity to manage.”

Of the Vechur, he says its milk has medicinal qualities recorded by Ayurveda ages ago. In more recent times, studies at the Kerala Agricultural University have also shown the percentage of fats and total solids of the Vechur cow to be higher than that found in crossbred cows. The smaller size of the fat globules in the Vechur's milk makes it more suitable for infants and the sick.

AHD Director R. Vijayakumar says the decline of native species had many causes. Not just the castrations of ‘non-descript' varieties that had occurred in a much earlier period. He points to “the trend towards cash crops which brought about a decline in animal-based agriculture and to a younger generation of farmers with no time or patience for rearing large animals — they prefer smaller ruminants. And to a greater interest in crossbreeds due to their higher milk productivity.”
Hardy and healthy

But costs and maintenance are another matter. “Before I switched to local breeds in 1994,” says Chandran Master, “I had three crossbreds, including one Swiss Brown. I had to spend up to Rs.400 a day on each. The feed was very costly and over Rs.200 a day. Pellet feed, rice powder, wheat powder, oil cake, green grass, it's endless. They would fall ill all the time and the vet was here every week, with each visit costing me Rs.150 apart from the expense of arranging a vehicle for him.”

Since making his switch: “No vet has attended my cows for 17 years. And I have not even insured a single one of them. These are hardy, healthy creatures.” And several experts do point out that India's native cattle (Bos indicus) have evolved to cope with the climate and to “withstand diseases, parasites and calve easily without human assistance.” Scientists like Dr. Sosamma Iype, who pioneered the revival of the Vechur at KAU, also point out that these dwarf animals “have good resistance to foot and mouth disease and mastitis. Both, diseases which plague crossbred cows in Kerala. Vechur cattle also have a far lower incidence of respiratory infections.”

Most livestock owners in Kerala are either small or marginal farmers or even landless. The State has the highest percentage of crossbreeds in the country. And while its average milk yield has risen, production is far below demand. The State is not amongst the top producers in the country. Feed utilisation per litre of milk is also one of the highest in India. Critics say it's wrong to ignore the steep fall in cattle numbers and native breeds that has hurt the State, alongside decades-old policies that made it illegal for a farmer to keep any bull without a licence for it. That licence is only granted at the level of State Director of the AHD.

Technically, Chandran Master and others are breaking the law. But surely the State has no way of knowing whether a farmer is keeping an “illegal” bull? “A hostile panchayat can make life hell for a farmer,” says one expert. “If that farmer is at odds with the ruling outfit of that panchayat, they can keep him in court for months.”
Red tape nightmare

Haritha Bhoomi (Green Earth) a journal on agriculture recently summed up the red tape involved in permissions of any kind: Say a farmer wishes to exceed the limit of six large animals and 20 head of poultry, even by a minor number. He needs clearances from the panchayat to just start the process. If you exceed the quota, you have to go to the Pollution Control Board. Depending on the size of the establishment you wish to build, you will need certificates from the District Town Planner. Perhaps even from the State Chief Town Planner. Manage to get these done and you have to prepare a technical report for the panchayat and get three or four certificates from them. Then the farmer must get clearances from the district medical officer to whom he has to submit NOCs from all residents within 100 metres of his planned farm.

On my first visit to Chandran Master's home I had run into a Livestock Inspector (LI) from another region. Wishing to remain unnamed, he told me “On most of my visits I see the problems faced by the crossbreeds. They fall ill with the slightest change in climate. They cannot take the heat.” Chandran Master chipped in: “You cannot sleep one night peacefully. Crossbreds can't stand ten minutes of rain. With local breeds, you don't even need cowsheds.” The LI nodded: “If I keep a cow, it will be a Vechur.”

(PS: Following Thursday's story in The Hindu, the Sahabaghya Vikash Abhiyan, a community-based body deeply involved in Kalahandi's agriculture, has announced it will gift Chandran Master two calves of the rare Khariar breed. The challenge now is to transport them from western Orissa to Thrissur in Kerala.)

Strategies to overhaul "Slaughterhouse Civilization"

The present civilization is clearly a "Slaughterhouse Civilization"! There is an act of murder in every fibre of it's construction. Ever increasing greed for economic gains is the goal. We all know, this experiment has been disastrous. The rebelliousness on the values and culture of a sustainable past propagated by scientists and leaders combined has entered the blood of every citizen of the modern world. It has taken the form of violence against nature. It is definitely an act of TERRORISM!

"Once on a morning walk in Rome, my spiritual master, ®r…la Prabhup€da, the founder-€c€rya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, was being asked how KŠa consciousness could solve the various problems of modern society. When asked about terrorism, ®r…la Prabhup€da replied that people should not expect to do away with terrorism as long as the vast majority of human beings were behaving as animals. It is natural that one ferocious beast fight with another, he said. So we shouldn't be surprised when persons already accustomed to inhuman acts become terrorists. In other words, as long as the members of society are being taught that certain kinds of exploitative sectarianism are good and that certain kinds of violence for sense gratification are approved (such as animal slaughter and abortion), then we should not be surprised to see a few agitated members of such a society committing acts of terrorism. Violence will always breed violence."
Editor, BTG 1984, "A Krsna Conscious Response to Terrorism"

"You are killing innocent cows and other animals—nature will take revenge. Just wait. As soon as the time is right, nature will gather all these rascals and slaughter them. Finished. They'll fight amongst themselves—Protestants and Catholics, Russia and America, this one and that one. It is going on. Why? That is nature's law. Tit for tat. "You have killed. Now you kill yourselves."
They are sending animals to the slaughterhouse, and now they'll create their own slaughterhouse. [Imitating gunfire:] Tung! Tung! Kill! Kill! You see?...
Srila Prabhupada, "Slaughterhouse civilization",JSD 6.5

If such a civilization has to change, then we will need to reform its roots, its wrong premise and foundation upon which it is standing, the false structure that it is displaying, expose the anomalies of the society and repair the system. In other words, we need to overhaul.


NEED FOR OVERHAUL

Overhaul is to look at the solutions comprehensively and one by one take out, repair, place new parts and fixtures, lubricate and give a new look. And educated good citizens, in other words, vaisnavas, are meant to do this.

"The KŠa consciousness movement is not a sentimental religious movement; it is a movement for the reformation of all the anomalies of human society."
Srila Prabhupada, Purport, C.C. Adi 17.141

"PRABHUPADA: Cow slaughter is the greatest sinful activity. They don't know what they are doing. Therefore, a thorough overhaul is required; otherwise their stool-bound brains can't be cleansed. Yes, we are washing your brain, because you have so much stool in your brain. We are sweepers engaged on behalf of God to wash the stool from your brain. We have to do it."
Srila Prabhupada, Conversation, Calcutta, India, Jan 1977

There is a verse in Srimad Bhagavatam. It says that those who are spiritually educated must respond to sufferrings of the material world, else their spirituality will just get wasted like pouring water into a broken pot(S.B 4.14.41). Hence it becomes an intrinsic responsibility of all good advised citizens of the world to combinedly act for the benefit of the common good in such a way as to overhaul the present abominable culture. Else, our practice of morality, spirituality, religiosity is just a waste of time.


THOROUGH OVERHAULING - A MULTI PRONGED STRATEGY:

The strategies are clear. It requires planning and organization. It requires those convinced, committed, enthusiastic, determined and free from lethargy to get ready!

"Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with full knowledge of Me, without desires for profit, with no claims to proprietorship, and free from lethargy, fight."
Bg. 3.30

Let us go over the strategies to overhaul one by one.


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"SRILA PRABHUPADA: The main thing is, society must learn to discriminate between pious and sinful activities. Human beings must engage in pious activities, not sinful activities. Otherwise, they have no brain. They are no better than animals. And from the moral point of view, do you like sending your mother to the slaughterhouse? You are drinking the milk of the cow—so she is your mother—and after that you are sending her to the slaughterhouse. That is why we ask. Where is society's brain?"
Srila Prabhupada, TQE 5a.

"It is necessary for the leaders of the KŠa consciousness movement to start educational institutions in different parts of the world to train children, starting at the age of five years. Thus such children will not become hippies or spoiled children of society; rather, they can all become devotees of the Lord. The face of the world will then change automatically."
Srila Prabhupada, SB. 4.12.23

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Strategy: a) Organize traditional Gurkulas everywhere
b) Organize Varnasrama Colleges everywhere
Srila Prabhupada, Room conversation, May 21, 1975, Melbourne

Any more in this category? Add to it and let us discuss (this point holds good for all strategies mentioned below).
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"MAHAMSA: Also another party of five devotees, they have started on the bullock cart sa‰k…rtana, going village to village... And one person came to the temple in Hyderabad and met me. He said that "After your devotees had a program in our village, the farmers in the evening they were coming and doing k…rtana instead of just..." Previously they were not doing anything, but now they are coming after farming. In the evening they are collecting and they are doing k…rtana together.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Just see how quickly there will be response. Therefore I was insisting, "Go village to village, town to town." Caitanya Mah€prabhu's prediction, pthiv…te €che yata nagar€di."

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Strategy: a) Organizing Bullock cart sankirtana parties in each district
b) Organizing Namahatta in each village
c) Reviving& Organizing Traditional-folk-arts to preach Bhagavatam
d) Organize artistes with help of BBT to present vedic culture
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Prabhup€da: 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 KŠa. This is success of life. In this way organize as far as possible, either in Ceylon or in Czechoslovakia, wherever... Save time. Chant Hare KŠa. Don't be allured by the machine civilization.

Haˆsad™ta: Yes, Prabhup€da.

Prabhup€da: 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?

Prabhup€da: And money, spend for KŠa—for KŠa's palace, for KŠa's temple, for KŠa's worship, gorgeous, as gorgeously as... Not for false... This is the human civilization. And to organize this, varŠ€rama will help you to divide the society—br€hmaŠa, katriya, vaiya—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 Mah€prabhu's para-upak€ra. .. 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 KŠa. Give them chance and make situation favorable. Is that clear?
Srila Prabhupada, Conversations, Vrindavana, Oct 8, 1977
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Strategy: a) Train grhasthas and bramhacharis in Varnasrama Colleges and encourage them to form communities.
b) Organize community projects under as many ISKCON temples possible
c) Encourage Grhasthas to invest and purchase land in their names but collectively live together as a community with common goals. Develop standards.
d) Tie up with eco village movement and preach Krishna consciousness.
e) Revive existing community projects all over the world.
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"But this deity worship is very serious program, and it must be kept to the utmost highest standard and never allowed to be neglected."
Srila Prabhupada, Letter, 16 Feb, 1972

"Foodstuffs that are offerable to ViŠu are called naivedya. Abominable items can never be viŠu-naivedya."
Padma Purana, C.C.Adi 7.173

"If you can continue to offer foodstuff like fruits and milk in the evening, you can introduce that system. There is no harm. Your second question, ice cream purchased from the market may not be offered. Because such ice cream contains sometimes undesirable things, which we should not offer. We must offer to Krishna only first class prepared foodstuff, especially made at home. We shall try to avoid as far as possible goods purchased from the market and offer to Krishna."
Srila Prabhupada, Letter, 21 Oct, 1968

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Strategy a) Spread awareness so that deities should be offerred bhoga made from pure ingredients obtained from the community.
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"Go-rakya means protection to the cows. Instead of protection to the cows, they are killing the cows. How you can have perfect society? Cows must be protected. It is so important animal. It is giving the you nectarean food milk, and from milk, you can save your children, you can save your diseased persons. And how it is that you take the cow's milk and send it for slaughterhouse. Oh, this is not, not at all human civilization. Here it is said go-rakya. You should give all protection to this important animal. KŠa does not say that you should protect the pigs and hogs or other animals. He especially meant the cows because cow is very important animal to the human society."
Srila Prabhupada, Lecture, Stockholm, Sept 7, 1973

"So open restaurants in any part of any city and make nice kacaur…s, r…khaŠa, pur…s, halav€, and so many other delicacies. And people will purchase them. They will come and sit down. I have given the format...
The Vedic culture offers so many nice, delicious foods, and mostly they are made with milk products. But these so-called civilized people—they do not know. They kill the cows and throw the milk away to the hogs, and they are proud of their civilization—like jackals and vultures. Actually, this KŠa consciousness movement will transform the uncivilized people and bring the whole world to real civilization."
Srila Prabhupada, June 1974, Valency, France


PUSTA KRSNA: What we've been doing with the dead cows is burying them,
there's no..., everything's wasted. Srila Prabhupada is proposing that why
not the butcher take, we give free, he simply returns us the skin of the
cow, and with the cow hide we properly tan it, we can make mrdanga heads for
the khol, and shoes, straps, whatever may be needed. The idea being that in
the Western countries especially, people are accustomed to eating animals,
animal flesh. So we have no objection.
PRABHUPADA: Oh, yes. Because a class of men will demand to eat the flesh.
You cannot stop it. So we are giving free: you eat. And from economic point
of view, we require the skin for our mrdanga making. So give us the skin.
That's all.
June 29, 1976, New Vrindavan, Room conversation

But especially we request cow protection, because it is ordered by Lord KŠa. Go-rakya: "Protect the cows." That is our duty.
And economically, also, it is very useful. KŠa has not recommended this for nothing
Srila Prabhupada, JSD 6.6: A Formula for Peace

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Strategy a) Organize bhojanashalas with traditional organic foods and delicacies in every district
b) Organize Ahimsa leather project
c) Organize Panchagavya products and ensure use of these products instead of cosmetics and medicines of rendering industry of slaughterhouse.
d) Organize home grown products of rural communities.
e) Organize Cold press oil from Ox run Oil press units that can be established in node of several villages
f) Organize Ox driven flour units.
g) Organize Ox run carts for touring large ISKCON centers/communities
h) Organize barter system of exchanges of goods in communities
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"The leaders of the government must be very honest and religious because otherwise all the affairs of the state will suffer. Unfortunately, in the name of democracy, rogues and thieves are electing other rogues and thieves to the most important posts in the government... Because of the importance of the KŠa consciousness movement, people should be KŠa conscious and should not vote for anyone who is not KŠa conscious. Then there will be actual peace and prosperity in the state. When a VaiŠava sees mismanagement in the government, he feels great compassion in his heart and tries his best to purify the situation by spreading the Hare KŠa movement."


"Therefore if we want a happy and tranquil political situation, we must select leaders who eat kŠa-pras€dam. Otherwise the leaders will eat meat and drink wine, and thus they will be asaˆskt€ƒ, unreformed, and kriy€-h…n€ƒ, devoid of spiritual behavior. In other words, they will be mlecchas and yavanas, or men who are unclean in their habits. Through taxation, such men exploit the citizens as much as possible, and in this way they devour the citizens of the state instead of benefiting them. We therefore cannot expect a government to be efficient if it is headed by such unclean mlecchas and yavanas."
Srila Prabhupada, C.C. Antya 1.92

"Prabhup€da: No, we have got experience. If there is a good man, he'll do, he'll act very nice. That we have got experience. Just like if a man is honest, you can trust him. This is our experience. So similarly, if the leaders be good according to this standard, then the whole human society will be happy. This is our propaganda. We are not after the post, but we have to disclose this rascaldom, that "All these rascals, animals, fools, they are taking the post of leader, and you are suffering repeatedly, but you have no sense that 'How we can be happy with this Nixon and company's leadership?' " So therefore we want to disclose the fact, that's all. We have no ambition. Just like we are br€hmaŠas. We have nothing to do, but according to Vedic civilization, the br€hmaŠas guides the katriyas how to rule. So our position is to reform the politicians. We are not going to compete with them, we have no business, neither we have time. But because people are suffering—we want everyone to be happy-therefore we want to reform these rascals. That is our goal. What we shall do taking part in politics? We have no business. But our real aim is how people will be happy. That is our real aim. So these rascals are leading, misleading. Therefore we want to check them. Is that all right? Is that all right?"
Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, Los Angeles, Dec 8, 1973

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Strategy a) Organize training for youths to get into top leadership ranks
b) Organize training to the politicians
c) Organize training to the military
d) Organize training to the judiciary
e) Organize training to the administration
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"®r… Caitanya Mah€prabhu started His movement of nonviolent civil disobedience to the order of Chand Kazi. It is not necessary to commit violence to stop the opposition from hindering a movement, for one can kill their demoniac behavior with reason and argument. Following in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya Mah€prabhu, whenever there are obstacles the Hare KŠa movement should kill the opposition with reason and argument and thus stop their demoniac behavior. If we became violent in every case, it would be difficult for us to manage our affairs. We should therefore follow in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya Mah€prabhu, who disobeyed the order of Chand Kazi but subdued him with reason and argument."
C.C.Adi 17.130

In the present day also, people all over the world may join together in the KŠa consciousness movement and protest against the present degraded governments of the world’s godless societies, which are based on all kinds of sinful activities. ®r…mad-Bh€gavatam states that in the Age of Kali, thieves, rogues and fourth-class people who have neither education nor culture capture the seats of governments to exploit the citizens. This is a symptom of Kali-yuga that has already appeared. People cannot feel secure about their lives and property, yet the so-called governments continue, and government ministers get fat salaries, although they are unable to do anything good for society. The only remedy for such conditions is to enhance the sa‰k…rtana movement under the banner of KŠa consciousness and protest against the sinful activities of all the world’s governments.
C.C.Adi 17.141

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Strategy a) Organize mass weekly civil awareness sankirtana programs and distribute books, pamphlets and other literatures on Simple living-High thinking.
b) Organize world holy name week all over the world with more enthusiasm with the above goal
c) Organize civil disobedience sankirtanas for wrongs in the society (E.g. revival of Yamuna river, etc)
d) Organize training Ksatriyas in Varnasrama Colleges
e) Organize training for Ksatriya clan (such as Gurkhas and Jats)
in Krishna Consciousness.
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"The offenseless chanter of the holy name of the Lord is as auspicious as the Lord Himself, and the movement of pure devotees of the Lord all over the world can at once change the troublesome face of the world."
Srila Prabhupada, Purport, SB. 1.16.33

"If the intelligent men, or the br€hmaŠas of society, would follow the rules and regulations, certainly the entire face of this present world, which is in such chaotic condition, would change, and people would be happy and prosperous."
Srila Prabhupada, SB.4.18.13

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Strategy: a) Organize training of Japa workshops and to avoid 10 offenses
b) Organize training of culture of loving relationships everywhere
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TAKING ALL STRATEGIC POINTS:

We have all the strategies in hand. We have the order of the almighty handed down by great saints. Let's take all strategic points for fighting the demons depeding upon our inclination, ability and guidance whether we are a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or a sudra. This arrangement will help in proper cooperation to serve together within our abilities.

"The granddaughter of this Nethaji (as he is called), Subhash Candra Bose, comes to visit Prabhupada infrequently. She made a remark that Srila Prabhupada is like Nethaji in that he has gone outside India to organize a movement of Vaisnavas. Srila Prabhupada liked that. He said, Yes.
He said that we have organized an army now and it is in the right hands. You Americans are resourceful, you can do it. The frame is there, now organize. This mission is para-upakara. We don’t want to exploit anyone. Today’s so-called civilization keeps people in the clutches of maya. They are being misled, they are lusty, and they are demons. Our movement is against this. It is really para-upakara, to help the people, and you will be recognized by Krsna. Simply go on working for this movement. Take all strategic points for fighting. There is a declaration of war by us against maya. No, not actually maya, (she is a servant of Krsna). She would relinquish her grip on everyone, but because they remain demons she cannot. That’s her duty. Actually, we are fighting not with maya, but with the demons."
Biographies, SDG, Feb 8, 1977


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