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accustomed. Better to live there without modern amenities. But to
live a natural healthy life for executing Krishna
Consciousness.

It may be an ideal village where the residents will have plain living
and high thinking. For plain living we must have
sufficient land for raising crops and pasturing grounds for the
cows. If there is sufficient grains and production of milk, then the
whole economic problem is solved. You do not require any ma-
chines, cinema, hotels, slaughterhouses, brothels, nightclubs--all
these modern amenities.

People in the spell of maya are trying to squeeze out gross
pleasure from the senses, which is not possible to derive to our
heart's content. Therefore we are confused and baffled in our
attempt to derive eternal pleasure from gross matter. Actually,
joyful life is on the spiritual platform, therefore we should try to
save our valuable time from material activities and engage them
for Krishna Consciousness.

But at the same time, because we have to keep our body and soul
together to execute our mission, we must have sufficient (not ex-
travagant) food to eat, and that will be supplied by grains, fruits,
and milk. So if you can develop this place to that ideal life and the
residents become ideal Krishna Conscious men, in that part of
your country, I think not only many philosophically minded people
will be attracted, but they will be benefited also.

So far I am personally concerned, the United States Immigration
Department has denied my application for permanent visa on
some technical ground. In other words, just to avoid a Swami,
because the government is disgusted with so-called Swamis who
exploit the innocent public in your country.

The difficulty is that the people in this country, they want to contin-
ue their practice of sense gratification, and at the same time they
want to become transcendentally advanced. This is quite contra-
dictory. One can advance in transcendental life by process of neg-
ativating (negating) the general practice of materialistic life.

The exact adjustment is in Vaisnava philosophy, which is called
Yukta Vairagya, means that we should simply accept the bare ne-
cessities of our material part of life, and try to save time for spiritu-

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