Speaking About Varṇāśrama

Twenty-five years of Śrīla Prabhupāda's talks on varṇāśrama and farm community development, compiled by Hare Kṛṣṇa Devī dāsī and edited by Sureśvara dāsa, in the second edition of 2024. The lectures, conversations and morning walks are given in full and in order, each headed by the city and the date: Montreal 1968, Moscow 1971, London 1973, Vṛndāvana 1974, Rome, Geneva, Māyāpur, New Orleans.

Read together they show a single argument being worked out in public over a quarter of a century, in front of very different audiences and against very different objections. Grow your own food. Every man should own some land. Petroleum against ox power. Machines and unemployment. Food grains or factories. It is the primary source the other books on this shelf keep returning to, and at 347 pages the most substantial of them.