producing usless things

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Prabhupada: No, you require... First thing, you require to eat. So Krsna says that annad bhavanti bhūtani [Bg 3.14]: produce sufficient grain, food grain, so that both the animal and the man, they will eat and become robust, stout and strong, and they will be capable of working. So that is the first thing. But who is producing food grains? They are producing motor tires. When there is scarcity of food, will these motor tires help us? We shall eat motor tires? This is going on, so-called industrialization, producing unnecessary thing which is not required, and they are neglecting producing food grains. And I have estimated-I am traveling all over the world-that there are so much space even now that if you produce food grain, you can feed ten times of the population as it is. (More...)

Because the rascals are simply creating unnecessary necessities of life, so their only remedy is bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yogam adhoksaje. But people do not know it. Therefore vidvan, Vyasadeva, he has made the satvata-samhita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, anartha upasamam, to stop them acting nonsensically, simply producing problem. (More...)

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