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Vrindaban, I shall advise you not to make it very much

modernized. But as you are American boys, you must make it just
suitable to your minimum needs. Not to make it too much
luxurious as generally Europeans and Americans are accustomed.
Be er to live there without modern ameni es. But to live a
natural healthy life for execu ng 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 produc on of milk, then the whole
economic problem is solved. You do not require any machines,
cinema, hotels, slaughterhouses,
brothels, nightclubs‐‐all these modern ameni es.
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
a empt to derive eternal pleasure from gross ma er. Actually,
joyful life is on the spiritual pla orm, therefore we should try to
save our valuable me from material ac vi es and engage them
for Krishna Consciousness.
But at the same me, because we have to keep our body and
soul together to execute our mission, we must have sufficient
(not extravagant) food to eat, and that will be supplied by grains,
fruits, and milk 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 a racted, but they will be benefited also.
The difficulty is that the people in this country, they want to
con nue their prac ce of sense gra fica on, and at the same
me they want to become transcendentally advanced. This is
quite contradictory. One can advance in transcendental life by
process of nega va ng (nega ng) general prac ce of
materialis c life.
The exact adjustment is in Vaisnava philosophy, which is called
Yukta Vairagya, means that we should simply accept the bare
necessi es of our material part of life, and try to save me for
spiritual advancement should be the mo o of New Vrindaban, if
you at all develop it to the perfec onal stage. And I am always at

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