During a recent visit to Aravade, I could not sleep during the middle of the night because there was so much noise coming from nearby fields. It took me quite some time to realize what was going on. Someone was ploughing his field with a tractor at night to avoid the midday heat. To add to the noise pollution, he had a radio blaring film songs at a volume that was even louder than the tractor's engine, so he could hear the radio over the tractor. It was a complete cacophony. The entire atmosphere was surcharged with nonsense, film music and noise made by the tractor engine. Forty to fifty years ago, this never happened; there would be pindrop silence at night.
Technology has given the villager the freedom to act unrestrictedly.
Extracted from "God made this Land (Upcoming Book of Guru Maharaja)" | | Your suggestion that the devotees visiting Vrindaban engage in preaching and chanting and not in gossiping is very good. We have sacrificed our life for Krsna's service, where is the scope for sleeping and gossiping? You can see in my example, not a single moment is wasted.
Letter to Gurudas, February 5, 1977 |
