Therefore Rsabhadeva says here that tapo divyam putraka yena sattvam suddhyed. This human life is not meant for, I mean to say, spoiling by working hard like the animals, as we have said that, kastan kaman. Kastan kaman. We require something, some because we have got this body. Very easy solution is given by Lord Krsna: annad bhavanti bhutani. You produce foodgrains. Why you are going to produce tools and implements and… Of course, we do not condemn. But at the sacrifice of producing foodgrains, we simply open big, big tire factory. When I go to Delhi I see, from Vrndavana, hundreds and thousands persons are coming from the village on cycle to go to the tire factory, Goodyear tire factory. So now eat tire instead of getting food grains.

So this is misdirected civilization. Krsna does not say that you produce tire tube. Krsna says annad bhavanti bhutani: “You produce anna.” This is practical solution. We have therefore started in Europe and America farming. And they are very happy. In our latest Back to Godhead the description is published about our farm in France. We have got a very palatial building. We have named it New Mayapur, Chateau d’Oublaise. I cannot pronounce this French word. So anyway, our men, there are about three hundred men living there. Last time, four months, five months before I was there. It is very nice place. We are getting our own fruits, own vegetables fresh, and we are getting fresh wheat and milk. It is so happy life.

So government is also advertising “Go to the village.” Actually that is life. Go to the village. Mahatma Gandhi also wanted to organize this life, but unfortunately you have changed. Now we have got place in Hyderabad about six hundred acres of land. We are also trying here. We have already done in Mayapur. We are producing our own food, our own cloth, own milk, and we are chanting Hare Krsna. This is the simplest life.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.1

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bombay, December 25, 1976