Text 25] A Description of Jambidvipa 113

to the northern side of [lavrta-varsa for the benefit of those who
live there. Because of these flowing rivers, all the people have
ample supplies of milk, yogurt, honey, clarified butter [ghee],
molasses, food grains, clothes, bedding, sitting places and orna-
ments. All the objects they desire are sufficiently supplied for their
prosperity, and therefore they are very happy.

PURPORT

The prosperity of humanity does not depend on a demoniac civilization
that has no culture and no knowledge but has only gigantic skyscrapers
and huge automobiles always rushing down the highways. The products
of nature are sufficient. When there is a profuse supply of milk, yogurt.
honey, food grains, ghee, molasses, dhotis, saris, bedding, sitting places
and ornaments, the residents are actually opulent. When a profuse sup-
ply of water from the river inundates the land, all these things can be
produced, and there will not be scarcity. This all depends, however. on
the performance of sacrifice as described in the Vedic literature.

annad bhavanti bhitani
parjanyad anna-sambhavah

yajnad bhavati parjanyo
yajnah karma-samudbhavah

“All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains.
Rains are produced by performance of yajria [sacrifice]. and yajfa is
born of prescribed duties.” These are the prescriptions given in
Bhagavad-gita (3.14). If people follow these principles in full Krsna
consciousness, human society will be prosperous, and they will be happy
both in this life and in the next.

TEXT 25

aagntat a saat samt adtafagaaegineamuaa-
AGAMA MATA IMA IAAT Aid TAM Aa Maas
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