They can have rains from the sky by chanting.

[Pankaja_Dasa 1]

 

 

Morning Walk

and Room Conversation

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August 9, 1976, Tehran

 

Parivrajakacarya: All they had to eat was the milk of sheep and goats and sometimes when they would camp near a farm they would have vegetables. Sometimes. And then the meat of the sheep.

 

Prabhupada: And these dates. In the desert the date tree grows. Sometimes they eat camel also. Do they not?

 

Parivrajakacarya: Yes. But I don't think if they...

 

Prabhupada: They cannot be strictly vegetarian; it is not possible.

 

Parivrajakacarya: It is difficult.

 

Prabhupada: But even they eat meat they can chant Hare Krsna, there is no harm.

 

Parivrajakacarya: But now they are farming in the desert. The Iranian government has started farms. They are irrigating the land with water, and when they put water on the desert they get all kinds of vegetables and grains very easily. So if they do that then they can become vege... They have no excuse. The excuse of the people is that "We have to eat meat."

 

Prabhupada: They can have rains from the sky by chanting. The rain will fall from the sky. Who can check it? Krsna gives the water from the sky. Yajnad bhavati parjanyah [bg. 3.14].

 

Parivrajakacarya: They say in the books that this area used to be all forest with many, many trees two to three thousand years ago. It was a very thick forest. But since then it has become desert, the rain has stopped since then.

 

Prabhupada: Because the yajna stopped.

 

Pradyumna: The Sahara Desert used to be all trees, very fertile. Sahara Desert in Africa, it is the biggest desert in the world. Nothing...

 

Prabhupada: Sahara, Sahara.

 

Pradyumna: Sahara Desert. It used to be very rich thousands of years ago, but then became desert.

 

Hari-sauri: It's supposed to increase its size by ten miles every year.

 

Pradyumna: Desert growth. Formerly, that city Carthage used to be there. Carthage was fighting Rome. Carthage was very rich, all farms.

 

Prabhupada: Cartharian civilization was very big civilization. The thing is that the more people become sinful, they'll be disturbed by this natural atmosphere. Therefore I'm surprised that moon planet is inhabited by pious inhabitants, how there can be desert?