Letters from Srila Prabhupada Vol.1 1947-1969 (in pdf) - Krishna Path

566 Letters from Srfla Prabhupiida
dress, the body is not identification with
the living entity, therefore the living entity
may be dressed in 8,400,000 of different
dresses, and the living entity as he is,
there is no qualitative difference between
human being and animal. Therefore, their
material necessities are the same, namely,
eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.
Next point, the foolish idea that animals
or plants or other living entities have no
life, is the basic cause of human sinful activities.
Next point, one should be satisfied
only to fulfill the belly, that is the
eating process. If you can satisfy your
belly by such things as grains, vegetables,
fruits and milk, you have no right to kill
another animal for satisfying the taste of
your tongue. The human society is meant
for living on the natural production,
namely, grains, fruits, vegetables, and
milk. They should not indulge extravagantly
for other things. And if actually
they are Krishna Conscious, they know
the art of how to prepare thousands of palatable
dishes only from the varieties of
vegetables, grains, fruits, and milk. If
anyone takes more than he requires then
he is to be understood a thief. Nobody
should accumulate for future consumption
of family, society, or nation, more
money or more grains or more vegetables
or more eatables, one should have only as
much as he requires. If there is greater
production, that should be distributed to
persons who need them. Because food
grains, especially, they are meant for all
living entities, they should not be spoiled.
Next point, therefore, one who spoils
food grains unnecessarily, he is criminal.
And one who accumulates more money
than is actually required, he is also criminal
. And according to the law of nature, or
according to the law of God, such persons
are surely to be punished.
This punishment may not be visible in
this life, but because life is eternal , it is
continuity, one must be prepared to accept
such punishment in this life or next life,
and because they are taking the risk,
therefore, the living entity is transmigrating
from one body to another, and that is
his problem of life. The human life is
meant for solving this problem. All animals
like deer, camel, ass, monkey, even
flies and snakes, none should be ill
treated. Even they enter into the house or
in the fields and take their eatables, they
should not be stopped . Because they have
also got the right to eat, eatables supplied
by the Lord. And they will not eat more,
neither they will take at home, They are
better than human beings. If a human being
is allowed to enter into the field or into
the garden, he will try to take away something
for selling or stocking, but the animals
do not. So the innocent animals
should be accepted as children of the
householder.
Nobody should take to very hardship
labor. The modem civilization has discovered
severe types of dangerous industries,
and laborers are attracted for high
wages. But they should not accept such
work. Then naturally there will be less
capitalistic idea. Because the laborer cooperates,
therefore demoniac persons
they take advantage and make unnecessarily
increase of artificial demands of the
body. Better one should be satisfied with
agricultural produce than go into large
cities to be engaged in industry. Peaceful
life depending on agricultural produce,
can bring him real happiness and prosperity,
not otherwise. The more persons will
be satisfied at their home, with home economics,
not to go outside the home, that is
peaceful life. In India, Mahatma Gandhi
tried to organize villages in that way so
that not to drag the people to the town. So
peaceful atmosphere can be attained only
when there is large scale village organization,
actually village life. Not to borrow
the ideas from the cities in the village life;
poet Cooper said that country is made by