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From: Bhakti Vikasa Swami <Bhakti.Vikasa.Swami@pamho.net>

Prabhupada: Actually there is no problem. Why there should be problem? There
are 8,400,000 species of life. Out of that, human being are 400... Out of
that, 80%, they are uncivilized. So all these living entities have no
problem for eating. This 20% or 15% people who are called as civilized, they
have problem. They have created problem. At least in India, say, hundred
years before, there was no problem for eating, even for the sudra class or
any... No, there was no... The society was so made, there was no problem.
Why fifty years? In 1933 or '36 in Vrndavana somebody wanted milk, some
pilgrimage amongst ourselves. So went to a house. So, "Can you supply us
some milk?" "Ah, how much you want?" So it was about ten pounds. So she
supplied immediately, one woman, and when she was offered price, "Oh, why
shall I take a price for ten or twenty pounds of milk? Oh, you can take it."
That is my practical experience. Milk was so freely available. So simply we
are creating problems by godless civilization. That is a fact.

Hamsaduta: Once you said we are making solutions to self-created problems,
and we think it's advancement.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Hamsaduta: We've created a big thing and then make so many solutions.


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