Krishna Consciousness & Ecological Awareness: Excerpts from Vedic Ecology by Ranchor Prime

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Excerpts from Vedic Ecology by Ranchor Prime

"The human being is the elder brother of all other living beings. He is endowed with intelligence more powerful than animals for realizing the course of nature and the indications of the Almighty Father. Human civilization should depend on the production of mother nature without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and sense gratification."

-Srila Prabhupada (excerpt from commentary on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.4)

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Srila Prabhupada on Farm Communities

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ISKCON Cow Protection

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