Kamra devi dasi Remembers Srila Prabhupada

Following Srila Prabhupada

Interview DVD 11

Kamra: Prabhupada took a walking tour of the barn and the machine area, and Paramananda was a little bit apologetic because Prabhupada had been to New Talavan a few months ago and chastised them for having farm equipment. But actually they had farm equipment and it was standing outside in the weather getting rusty, and at Gita Nagari we had a lot of farm equipment but everything was very well protected. But Paramananda was very much self-conscious. So as he was showing Prabhupada the different equipment. He was saying, “This is a disk and it’ll do the work of so many men, and this is a plow and it’ll do the work of so many men.” And Prabhupada was very silent. But when Prabhupada gave his class later on that evening he said, “It’s not that we hate machinery. Everything can be used in Krishna’s service.” He also very much caught our mood that we didn’t want to be in the cities. So when Prabhupada noted that, he commented in his class, “It’s not that we hate the towns and villages. Everything belongs to Krishna.” So he saw our mentality, and he cut through it very effectively.