≻ You are defrauded The other hidden hand: the world of the cheater and the cheated, where everyone is cheating, and being cheated, no exception. The mother of all cheating is the bodily concept of life and godless civilization. More≻ Upcoming Trend in Currency? If you say, "No, I don't want paper. Give me gold dollar," then you are finished. Your currency will be finished. More≻ Our leaders are demons (and so are we) "The demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world." More≻ Osama bin Laden killed They are simply engaged in killing business... More≻ Speculators Making a Killing You have to introduce this metal coins, value. The whole cheating scheme will fail. More≻ A better communist model for prosperity Without being educated properly, the mass of people are following in the footsteps of the vested interests by exploiting natural reserves, and therefore there is acute competition between individual and individual and nation and nation. More≻ OM NOM NOM From the highest executive in his skyscraper office down to the coolie in the street—all are working with the thought of accumulating wealth, legally or illegally. More≻ Yard Exercise The so-called Egyptian revolution is comparable to the prison warden letting all San Quentin prison inmates out of their cells for the weekly one-hour yard exercise. More≻ Qualifications for the top job The four leaders of the human society, namely the sannyasis, the brahmana, the king and the public leader, must be tested crucially by their character and qualification. More≻ Self-sufficiency the backbone of civilization Here the rascals are advising, produce bolts and nuts, tire, and drill petrol. They are not producing food. And the so-called government men, they are levying taxes, and they are enjoying. They haven't got to produce food. More≻ Living on Edge Just as the nation thinks it is well-protected when it has good defense measures, so an ordinary man thinks that if he has a strongly built body and a very faithful wife, nice children, good bank balance, some property, securities, these things will give him protection. More≻ What TSA Fails to Detect We are Krishna's part and parcel, all living entities, but we do not see each other. You cannot see me, I do not see you. "No, I see you." What you see? You see my body. More≻ Hyping up the dollar with the Yellow Peril Hype We are educated in such a way that we think we are millionaires by paper only. As soon as there is some catastrophe, millions of such dollars could not buy bread. More≻ Military spending has ruined the economy Why so much money should be spent for military? They are not kshatriyas. They are demons. More≻ Afghanistan-Pakistan War: Third World War in the Cross Sights Next war means atomic war. All these rascals will be killed automatically. I will kill you, you'll kill me. More≻ Democracy in China? Democracy Is No Solution At All! ...A good number of pot heads, drug offenders, fraudsters, pornographers, prostitutes, child rapists, pedophiles, and dead people and millions of other people with bad judgment and degraded behavior voting... More≻ Brazil Elects Clown to Congress But there is no question of grudging against government; because we are not Krishna conscious, therefore we are electing our representatives, fools and rascals. More≻ Church of Money and Consumerism This ignorance about the eternity of the living being and the change of covering in the material world has played havoc in the structure of modern human society. Consequently there are many problems, multiplied by various plans of modernized man. The plans for solving the problems of society have only aggravated the troubles. More≻ “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s Your whole body requires food. That does not mean you have to supply food to the ears, to the eyes, to the nails, to the rectum, to the... No. You give food to the stomach; it will be distributed. So Krishna says, maya tatam idam sarvam. That we have already studied. So if you love Krishna, then your love will be distributed.< More ≻ Civilians fair game in war Now the war is between people to people, nation to nation. They support with men and money. So therefore they are also killed by nature's law. More ≻ Without Principles At the present moment, human civilization does not care for religious principles. It is, however, greatly interested in economic development without religious principles. More ≻ Assured Destruction Everyone will be killed, either by violence in war, or by cancer, Altzheimers, liver disease, prostate cancer, heart attack, tuberculosis, dacoits, thieves, air pollution, food poisoning, snakebites, automobile accident, or whatever. More ≻ Employment Strategies The government should see that everyone, as he is trained up, he is working according to his quality and occupational duty. More ≻ Finding the right job: mapping vocations to qualifications One should work according to his own nature; no work is abominable, if performed in the service of the Supreme Lord. More ≻ Voting for Strangers Unless people are very much trained up, the election by the mass is not very good. Rather, first-class men, they should nominate that "This man should be president." More ≻ Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark If you bring a dozen dogs and put them together in a room, will it be possible to keep them peaceful? Similarly, if human society is filled with men whose mentality is on the level of dogs, how can you expect peace? More ≻ The More the Merrier? Krishna will arrange a fight between the demons in which all their military power will be engaged and both parties of demons will be annihilated. More ≻ Your Tax Dollars At Work Better learn how to make svaha for Krishna. Otherwise you will have to make svaha for Maya. More ≻ Every Man Must Die! The Christians think they are Christian, the black man thinks he is black, the white man thinks he is white, the Jew thinks he's Jewish, the American thinks he's American, the Greek Man thinks he's Greek. But this is the biggest fraud in the entire history of human civilization. More ≻ Taxed to Death
Government's only duty is that government gives me land and I pay tax: whatever I produce, take one fourth. Finish. All taxes. If I don't produce, there is no tax. More ≻ People Mill
Forget, forget good government for millions of years, unless you establish this varnashrama-dharma. More ≻ Bailing Out Let them be without industry. Come to us. We shall give them food. Yes. Just like that hunter.... More ≻ Economic Correction: Revert to gold, land, cattle, grains ...Gold is such a metal, any part of the country, any part of the world you go, you get immediately value.. More ≻ The Business of Governments In place of one king or supreme executive officer, in a democracy there are so many quasi-kings: the president, the ministers, the deputy ministers, the secretaries, the assistant secretaries, the private secretaries, and the undersecretaries.. More ≻ Food for Thought: satisfaction is key to local economies ...Within the village you can get everything. Village economy. Everything very cheap.. More ≻ You can't eat paper currency ...As soon as you keep money in the bank it will decrease the value. This is... Money is decreased, value of all over the world. Because it is not money actually; it is paper, cheating. Real money is gold. But they will now allow to keep the gold.. More ≻ Culling the Herds ...They are killing cows in the thousands. Therefore they are unfortunate in spiritual consciousness, and nature disturbs them in so many ways, especially through incurable diseases like cancer and through frequent wars and among nations.. More ≻ The Bank Robbers: going for the big loot If I have to be punished as criminal, as thief, let me plunder the government treasury and then let me go to jail. So this is our policy: if we have to submit to somebody, why not the best and perfect? More ≻ Economists a Threat One may profess a high philosophy, but when one is in need of money, he becomes a cheater. In this material world, so-called scientists, philosophers and economists are nothing but cheaters in one way or another. More ≻ Government Gone Rogue Formerly, ministers were appointed by the king and were not elected. Consequently, if the king was not very pious or strict, the ministers would become thieves and rogues and exploit the innocent citizens. It is the king's duty to see that there is no increase of thieves and rogues either in the government secretariat or in the departments of public affairs. More ≻ BP in Alaska: Skirting the Moratorium The conditioned soul, due to madness only, engages his full energy and intelligence in sense gratification, and to achieve this end of life he willfully commits all sorts of misdeeds. More ≻ BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster: At the Front Line and Behind the Scenes Just like a mad driver drinking drives recklessly to die, that's all. But he is thinking, "Oh, I am going with so much great speed." He does not know that he is going to die after few minutes. And that is their development. More ≻ Duty and Discipline One has to sacrifice everything for the good will of the Supreme Lord, and at the same time discharge prescribed duties without claiming proprietorship. Arjuna did not have to consider the order of the Lord; he had only to execute His order. More ≻ Partners in Crime: Nepotism and corruption amounts to US$4 million a week ending up in hands of Taliban? All these habits, or so-called advancement of civilization, are the root causes of all irreligiosities, and therefore it is not possible to check corruption, bribery and nepotism. Man cannot check all these evils simply by statutory acts and police vigilance, but he can cure the disease of the mind by the proper medicine, namely advocating the principles of brahminical culture or the principles of austerity, cleanliness, mercy and truthfulness. More ≻ Absolute Power over the Internet You cannot avoid Krishna. Just like you cannot avoid government control. That is not possible. Either you are in jail life or you are in free life, you are always under government control. More ≻ Make an Example of Them When the executive heads are strong enough to curb all sorts of dishonest miscreants, in any part of the state, certainly they cannot flourish. When the miscreants are punished in an exemplary manner, automatically all good fortune follows. More ≻ Defense Fail: The Threat is Not Iran; It's Death You may try to make very good arrangement for defending, but your life will never be saved. More ≻ Who Belongs in Debtors' Prison? In India, there is a proverb: hira and khira. Hira means diamond and khira means cucumber - it has no value, a few cents. And diamond is very valuable. But if somebody steals khira, he's criminal, and one steals hira, he's also criminal. More ≻ Restoring Honest Money Money is not required. You require things. Just like instead of money, you are getting papers. Money means gold. Where is gold? You are cheated. More ≻ American Dream turned nightmare? No, it's a rude awakening All such positions of economic development, although created with great endeavor and hardship, are vanquished very soon. More ≻ A Permanent Solution for Israel-Arab Strife It is our practical experience in this material world that the same person who is one's friend today becomes one's enemy tomorrow. More ≻ The Futility of Blockades and Flotillas Like small particles of sand, bodies come together and are separated by the force of time, and people falsely lament for unification and separation. More ≻ Lies we ignore I am educated in such a way that I falsely claim some land as my land, I falsely claim something which is not at all mine. But we are educated in that. This is called national education. More ≻ India headed for lower, not higher, quality of life The development of hard and difficult industrial undertakings always hinders the progressive cultivation of the human spirit. More ≻ Information and sensory overload turning us into numbskulls Our news, we have to canvass, "Will you kindly take this? Will you kindly take this." They are not interested. They're interested in this material news – radio, paper, magazine, edition after edition. ... So they have no time to read a little news we are giving about God. More ≻ Law of the Wall Street Jungle: "Me First" The demoniac man knows no limit to his desire to acquire money. That is unlimited. He thinks only of how much assessment he has just now and schemes to engage that stock of wealth further and further. More ≻ Rein in the madmen In the religious war, the kshatriyas were fighting, not the shudras, not the brahmanas, not the vaishyas. There was a caste for fighters. Not like this, where a shudra is elected as president, he is not fighting, he is in a safe place, and he is simply directing, "You go and fight." More ≻ Gold Prostitution and Broken Promises Instead of paper currency, actual gold coins should be used for exchange, and this will stop prostitution of gold. More ≻ Phantasmagoria The great ocean of material nature is tossing with the waves of time, and the so-called living conditions are something like foaming bubbles, which appear before us as bodily self, wife, children, society, countrymen, etc. More ≻ India's food grain reserves left to rot There is enough food. Punjab still produces food grains. Bengal still produces rice, but they are stocked by government men, and they are mishandling. They are lying on the station for dispatch, but they will not be dispatched. More≻ Brazen ThievesThe government is top-heavy, and without increasing taxes the government cannot maintain itself. When taxes are collected they are utilized for the sense gratification of the government officials. More≻ The Ides of March 2010 & Nadi Leaf Predictions for 2012 and BeyondShrila Prabhupada in his rare but insightful comments on demonic politicians pointed to the “false flags” of the sinking of the Lusitania, the Viet Nam War and the colossal “Moon landing” hoax. False flags are staged events that have been orchestrated specifically to bring about particular changes. More≻ Governments FAIL: states and municipalities bankrupt - IOU paychecksFirst of all, the government is cheating. He is giving me paper in the name of money, and forcing me to accept it. More≻ Bill Gates Backing Vaccines Connected to Eugenics, Population Reduction
If everyone only takes as much he requires, there is no problem in the world. But he wants to take more. More ≻ Prognosis for New World Order
In the present confused state of humanity, Krishna consciousness, the chanting of the holy name of the Lord—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare—is the only remedy for setting the world aright. More ≻ Riding the Money-Go-Round The demoniac man knows no limit to his desire to acquire money. More ≻ Operation Enduring Warfare Neither party knows how to defeat nor surrender; neither is concerned for the innocent citizens who are caught in the conflict and have nowhere to go. More ≻ Protecting Cows in the Land of Dharma Let the cow be protected. You can take the cow's milk and use this milk for making so many nutritious, delicious preparations. Aside from that, as far as meat-eating is concerned, every cow will die—so you just wait a while, and there will be so many dead cows. Then you can take all the dead cows and eat. More ≻ Unqualified for the Job Because the candidates are all rascals, the people have no alternative but to elect a rascal. More ≻ Dungeons of Demons The dungeons of mines, factories and workshops develop demoniac propensities in the working class. The vested interests flourish at the cost of the working class, and consequently there are severe clashes between them in so many ways. More ≻ From Villages to Ghost Towns Gandhi's program was very nice, village organize so that they may not come to the city and help the capitalists. Remain satisfied in the village. But where is that satisfaction? That is the failure. More ≻ Global Economy a Malignant Growth This Vedic civilization was that keep some land and keep some cows. Then your whole economic question is solved. More ≻ "We prefer our mud cookies!" The sadhu has the thankless task of impressing upon them the importance of devotional service. More ≻ Leveled
In the villages of India you would find a simple mud house or a cow dung house with a straw roof – practically no expenditures in building and maintaining a house, and no loss when the house is destroyed. More ≻ Not even fit for the trash can
Unless we are educated in the science of the soul, we won’t be prepared to die when the time comes. More ≻ No objections to using the name Krishna If you think that this Krishna name is not very suitable, you can accept any name. That doesn't matter. Our proposition is you chant God's name. That is our proposal. Therefore it is universal. If you like, you can chant Jehovah or you can chant Allah, but we request you that you chant God's name. More ≻ Forecast: Global Food shortage in 2010 Farmers are producing, and you are eating, but you are not producing. Therefore gradually your food will be shortage. You are depending on others. The farmers, they do not produce food for human being. They produce food for the cows. More ≻ Politics in the Guise of Religion They create some religion to derive some material benefit as they create political organization for mutual undisturbed sense gratification. More ≻ Dairy farmers urged to explore value-added products
Farmers need to expand their thinking. Milk can be easily converted into so many products and marketed locally for added value. Even small dairy farms can venture to make use of excess milk or rejected milk to produce and sell innovative milk products at minimum cost. More ≻ Pax in Terra, War on Maya
If the aim of spiritual realization is missed, the whole plan of materialism is sure to be frustrated and that is the law of Nature. More ≻ Unwanted Population
Mad pursuit of money, material goods and sense gratification is using up the planet's resources and good will. More ≻ Authority to Tax
If a king cannot give protection to citizens from thieves and rogues both in the government service and in public affairs, he has no right to exact taxes from them. More ≻ Goldman Sachs eyeing new office in Somalia?
"What is the difference between you and me? ... I am just going and plundering. So you are also plundering, I am plundering." More ≻ What is more elusive than gold?
Unfortunately, on earth there is such a scarcity of gold that the governments of the world try to keep it in reserve and issue paper currency. More ≻ No Atheists in Foxholes, and now it's "In Gold We Trust"
I have no money. I give you simply paper. I promise to pay hundred dollars. What is the use of that promise if I have no money? More ≻ Licensed to Kill (and making a killing)
He is my enemy, and I have killed him, and my other enemies will also be killed. More ≻ The Naked Truth
Due to lack of Krishna consciousness, people are being fooled by so-called leaders and planmakers. Consequently, the sufferings of the people are increasing. More ≻ The Daily Kill What is the news value of a story of traditional ritual animal sacrifice in distant Nepal? "Sacrifice of 250,000 animals" grabs our attention momentarily, but it is scarcely noteworthy in comparision to the number of animals slaughtered day to day for tables around the world. Let's put things into perspective. More ≻ Invaluable Cows As men are made after the form and features of the Supreme Lord, so also the cows are made after the form and features of the surabhi cows in the spiritual kingdom. More ≻ God Loves Meat?
In Bhagavad-gita Lord Krishna advises go-rakshya, the protection of cows. More ≻ Quota of Wealth
This complete arrangement affords the proper quota of wealth for everyone according to his real needs, and thus everyone may live peacefully according to the principle of plain living and high thinking. More ≻ God didn't show up for work
From the highest executive in his skyscraper office down to the coolie in the street—all are working with the thought of accumulating wealth, legally or illegally. More ≻ Not worth its weight in gold
Formerly British government, in the beginning, to prove their honesty, as soon as you go to the currency for changing, they will offer you, "You want coins or paper currency?" More ≻ Gold, straight up!
Gold-standard currency is based on falsehood because the currency is not on a par with the reserved gold. More ≻ Week's Money Roundup: Gold Rush
I have no money. I give you simply paper. I promise to pay hundred dollars. What is the use of that promise if I have no money? But you want to be cheated. I cheat you. That's all. You are satisfied of being cheated by me; so I take the advantage and I cheat you. I give you a paper. That's all. More ≻ Expect a rise in price of rice
The point is from God's arrangement, there is enough food within this planet. There is enough land, enough food-producing prospect. But we have arranged in such a way that in one part the people are suffering, and one part, they are throwing the grains in the water. This is not God's arrangement. This is our arrangement. More ≻ Exploiters and Exploitees
The point is that in any society there must be a leader, there must be directors, and there must be workers, but everyone should be so satisfied that they forget the difference. More ≻ Don't underestimate the value of Money
Somewhere along the line, things have turned upside down, so that money is no longer valued according to goods or services; rather, goods and services are valued in terms of money - tangibles surrendered for the intangible. More ≻ Counterfeit and Inflated Money
The most ruinous practice to the government and the economy is COUNTERFEIT and INFLATED MONEY. More ≻ What is wealth, what is value? Money is not what it used to be
Human opulence means the society must have enough gold, enough jewelry, enough silk, enough grains, enough milk, enough vegetables, like that. That is opulent. More ≻ Making money does not amount to prosperity
Human prosperity flourishes by natural gifts and not by gigantic industrial enterprises. More ≻ What is Astonishing
The individual person finds it impossible to grasp or accept that not only has he wasted his entire life, and will waste the little remaining, but the whole history of the world must be dismissed as meaningless struggle for an imaginary concept of bodily identification. More ≻ The Primary Problem is Set Aside
Here is the typical example of Bhagavatam's teaching how "the solution undertaken to solve one material problem becomes a bigger problem than the original problem attempted to be solved." More ≻ Pulling Off The Great Bank Robbery
"Find out what happens when you tell the investment firm that you want to make a huge investment anonymously. It can't be done." It is important to understand the significance of the above quote ... and this latest bank robbery in the US. More ≻ Who is going to keep money in the banks?
This banking, "fanking," everything will collapse automatically. There is no money, who is going to keep money in the bank? More ≻ Idle Offerings to Deity
I wish that the Balaji's estate, Balaji's money, should be spent for spreading Krishna consciousness, not for any other purpose. That is my request. More ≻ Cows join in protest
A cow is born in America, and a gentleman is born in America, but the state takes care of the gentleman, not of the cows. More ≻ Peace Price
Peace can be had when one understands that God is the proprietor of everything. One's friends, one's mother, one's mother's father and the President are all guests of time. When this knowledge is accepted, then there will be peace. More ≻ End of Empire
One may be very proud of possessing a vast empire, but such empires are impermanent; after one hundred or two hundred years, everything is finished. All such positions of economic development, although created with great endeavor and hardship, are vanquished very soon. More ≻ Psst... Dollar is in Distress
In Kali-yuga, however, the king or government has no well-protected treasury, and the only means of circulation is currency notes made of paper. More ≻ Bloodsuckers
The governmental power will go to the rascals and thieves, rogues. And their only business will be how to exploit the people. More ≻ Still believe in change?
You elect somebody by your vote, again condemn. That means the electors, the voters, have also no experience, and neither the man who is voted, he is also very good man. More ≻ Dancing Dogs
The master says, "Please dance," and the dog dances, because he knows that unless he performs, he will starve. More ≻ The Decree that Cannot Be
Things ought to run even more smoothly if they were also to decree that there shall be no birth, death, disease and old age... More ≻ Imaginary Money
If I have got power to print paper and distribute it as money, you are dissatisfied, getting hundred rupees, you want two hundred, so what is to me? I print and give you. This is artificial inflation. More ≻ Why Commercial Dairies Can't Stop Killing
There's a difference between market-oriented production and a subsistence production that markets the surplus. More ≻ Who can save you?
Everyone is thinking like that. My nation, my community, my philosophy, my politics will save me. No. Nothing can save you. More ≻ Save the Children
It is the duty of the state, duty of the father, duty of the teacher, duty of the spiritual master to give chance to the small children to develop in such a way that he becomes fully realized spiritual soul at the end and so that his miserable life in the material existence is over. More ≻ Village Economy
The modern civilization has discovered severe types of dangerous industries, and laborers are attracted for high wages. But they should not accept such work. More ≻ Putting out the Fire
The house is burnt into ashes, and they are looking the formality, "Yes, we must put some water." More ≻ In God Fed We Trust
They are educating people that "I promise to pay. This is money," but actually he's receiving some papers. This is not brainwash. And we are talking of God, that is brainwash. More ≻ Life of Service
Perfect knowledge is that "My constitutional position is to serve." Bring any man in this world. Who can say that "I am not servant"? Is there any man or woman within this world, within this universe, who is not a servant? More ≻ Avoiding Questions and Answers
They have no knowledge; therefore they avoid these questions. But we take up these questions very seriously. More ≻ Your Government At Work for the Public Interest Special Interest Groups
Their only aim is that so long he is in the office, "Let me collect some money," that's all. More ≻ Not Possible to Check Population Growth
They are not going back to home, back to Godhead. Therefore it is crowded. More≻ The business of saints Philanthropists and altruists do not realize that it is impossible to improve people's material conditions. Material conditions are already established by the superior administration according to one's karma. More ≻ Daylight Robbery
The whole society's now combination of cheaters and cheated. That's all. The cheated want cheaters, and cheaters take the opportunity of the cheated. More ≻ Got Trust?
Without God consciousness, there cannot be any education. There cannot be any good qualities. You do not know this. Simply you are crying in the wilderness. More ≻ Culling the Cows
And other countries, they are starving for want of milk. Therefore I say the United Nation simply barking dogs. More ≻ Got Work?
It is the duty of the king to see that everyone in the social orders is fully employed in the state. More ≻ Make a Life, Not a Living
"I am interested to eat four chapatis, which can be very easily available. So why I am working so hard?" But that sense does not come. He is working, working, working, "More money, more money, more money, more money, more money." More ≻ Food converted to greed
Human civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of artificial greed and power... More ≻ Enough land for food production
If people produce food grain in all the lands available all over the world, they can feed ten times population than it is at present. Krishna has made such arrangement. More ≻ No Such Thing as Too Much Milk
There is no question of waste of milk at any stage. One must know how to do it. So you can keep as many cows as possible and collect as much milk from them. You can utilize. More ≻ Making cows happy is good for the planet
If you keep the cows happy, then cow will supply large quantity of milk. If the cow knows that you are going to kill it, she is always afraid, always fearful: "Oh, this man will kill." More ≻ Gold from a Vending Machine
He does not consider that "I am not getting a hundred dollars. I am getting a piece of paper." More ≻ Prepare for War
HANSADUTTA: So Prabhupada, is there something we should do to prepare ourselves for this disaster? More ≻ Killing Foods Although there are immense potencies within the earth for the production of grains, fruits and flowers, this production is checked by the earth itself when it is misused by nondevotees, who have no spiritual goals. More ≻ Aiming for the Good Life There are so many millions of people, they are trying for economic development, but still you'll find somebody is living in palace building and somebody is living in slum. More ≻ Making Peace with Nature "All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains. Rains are produced by performance of yajña [sacrifice], and yajña is born of prescribed duties." More ≻ Shame on Hindus, Shame on India Cows are sacred no more in India. I was shocked to learn yesterday from a godsister, Jahnavi devi dasi, that India has become the world's 3rd biggest beef exporter. More ≻ Danger in Every Step This material world is certified by the Lord in the Bhagavad-gita as a dangerous place full of calamities. Less intelligent persons prepare plans to adjust to those calamities without knowing that the nature of this place is itself full of calamities. More ≻ Death Camps Beget More Death Camps Sometimes during war, soldiers keep their enemies in concentration camps and kill them in very cruel ways. These are reactions brought about by unrestricted animal-killing... More≻ Pirates on the High Seas, Pirates on the High Seats of Government Modern heads of state are rogues and thieves who plunder the citizens instead of giving them protection. Rogues and thieves plunder without regard for law, but in this age of Kali, as stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam, the lawmakers themselves plunder the citizens. more≻ Pick and Choose Your News Human form of life is especially meant for realizing himself, "What I am?" That is the mission of human life. Athato brahma jijñasa. This life is meant for inquiring about Brahman. ... As we inquire every morning, "What is the news today?" Immediately we pick newspaper. more≻ Mirage in the Desert As one has subtle dreams at night, when the living entity is awake he lives in gross dreams of nation, community, society, possessions, skyscrapers, bank balance, position and honor. more≻ Managing Earth's Population There cannot be overpopulation, because there are already ananta [unlimited] living entities, what to speak of overpopulation. It is already there, you cannot count. more≻ Cows in Distress The next symptom of the age of Kali is the distressed condition of the cow. more≻ Fort Knox Con Job? If you say, "No, I don't want paper. Give me gold dollar," then you are finished. Your currency will be finished. more≻ Secular government oversees the suppression of spiritual culture Now, especially in our country, we say it is Hindustan, Bharatavarsha. So we are not giving the bharatiya or Hindu spiritual cultural education. So that's a great loss of the secular state. more≻ The great dollar gamble Ron Paul was saying that has become the new logic. Pump as much money into the economy as they can, so they will trigger a 10x-20x inflation in a few years, and then the current debt will be easier to pay off. more≻ Legislators to vote on controversial food safety bill At the present moment the so-called executive heads are more or less selected from materially ambitious persons who simply look after their own personal interests... more ≻ Guilty as Charged
By the order of a judge, one person is released from jail, and another is imprisoned, but the judge is not responsible, for the distress and happiness of these different people is due to their own activities. More ≻ Desperate for Work
...All the villagers, they have been drawn in the city for producing bolts and nuts. Now eat bolts and nuts. More ≻ Robbery in the name of government
It is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam that in this Kali-yuga government men (rajanyas) and those connected with the government, as well as exalted government ministers, secretaries and presidents, will all simply collect taxes for sense gratification. More ≻ Who controls government purse strings?
This is the policy. "Cheat him. Without giving money, give him paper, and get his labor, and produce goods." More ≻ Do your part for the Green Movement: Say NO to beef
The more we attempt to exploit material nature according to our whims of enjoyment, the more we shall become entrapped by the reaction of such exploitative attempts. If we have sufficient grains, fruits, vegetables and herbs, then what is the necessity of running a slaughterhouse and killing poor animals? More ≻ Government's duty to intervene and protect the cows
In modern human society, spiritual knowledge is neglected, and cow killing is encouraged. It is to be understood, then, that human society is advancing in the wrong direction and is clearing the path to its own condemnation. A civilization which guides the citizens to become animals in their next lives is certainly not a human civilization. More ≻ World Food Production Set for Catastrophe
In these days of drought, people can gain relief from scarcity of rain and food by the simple method of the Hare Krishna yajña. More ≻ Happy Cows
In other farms the cows do not deliver as much milk as in our farms; because our cows know very well that we are not going to kill them, they are happy, and they give ample milk. More ≻ Investment Wisdom
Just see the value that you cannot get back even a moment of your life by paying millions and millions of dollars. How time is valuable, just calculate. Therefore Chanakya Pandit said, sa chet nirarthakam nitah ka no hanis tato 'dhika: if you waste your time, such valuable time, for nothing, just imagine how much loser you are. More ≻ Economic Rescue Plan
Because they can pay in this paper, the bank will advance. You have to introduce this metal coins, value. The whole cheating scheme will fail. More ≻ Dharma and Gold
Just like they have made twenty-carat gold, fourteen-carat gold, sixteen-carat gold. That is mixture. That is not pure gold. We are preaching, "If you say it is religion, it is pure religion, not carat, fourteen-carat religion or twenty-carat religion." More ≻ Just in time for Valentine's Day
You are already feeling burden because there are so many bull calves. You were asking me, "What we shall do with so many bulls?" More ≻ Rescue for the taxpayers perps
Due to their unauthorized plans for economic development, the price of commodities is rising daily all over the world, so much so that is has become difficult for the poorer classes, and they are suffering the consequences. More ≻ Our Fallible Leaders
Real leader means who does not commit mistake, who is not illusioned, who does not cheat and who has no imperfect senses, who has, or, other words, one who has got perfect senses. So if you say, "How it is possible for the conditioned soul?" "Yes, it is possible if you follow the perfect." More ≻ Network of Demons
The demoniac person thinks: "So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more." More ≻ United States of the World
Now you have got the United Nations. Now, if they are sane men, they should pass resolution, "The whole world belongs to God, and we are all God's sons. So let us make now United States of the World." More ≻ A President in need of solutions
Because they do not read Bhagavad-gita, they do not know how to maintain the whole society, therefore there is now chaos. Therefore it is needed. The government—they must study Bhagavad-gita. More ≻ Looking for work?
Let them go to the farm. We are therefore organizing farm. As soon as they are jobless, "Come on. We shall feed you. We shall give you food." There is no scarcity of food. More ≻ Rebooting civilization with spiritual culture
The society is not in stable stage. Just like in America, they are also in trouble now. They are asking money from the federal government. They cannot make solution. So as soon as the monetary source will decline, this civilization will be finished. ...Because there is no culture. They are not standing on culture. They are standing on money. More ≻ Going Local
By God's arrangement, anyone in any part of the world can live very peacefully if he has some land and a milk cow. There is no need for man to move from one place to another to earn a livelihood, for one can produce food grains locally and get milk from cows. More ≻ Plain Living, High Thinking
Live in open place, produce your food grains, produce your milk, save time, chant Hare Krishna. Plain living, high thinking, ideal life. Artificial necessities of life do increase your so-called comforts, but if you forget your real business, that is suicidal. More ≻ Our false standard of living, no longer sustainable
PRABHUPADA: Here is a revolution against this modern civilization. They are simply after economic development, and here it is condemned. It is condemned that this kind of endeavor is simply wasting the balance of our life. More ≻ Artificial Necessities and Artificial Money
Everyone is engaged in earning money, and the money is kept in the bank, which then offers money to the public. In this cycle of activities, everyone is engaged in getting more and more money, and therefore the ideal goal of human life is being lost. More ≻ Honor and Dishonor
"People will always speak of your infamy, and for one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death." — Bhagavad-gita 2.34 More ≻ Let's get physical: gold coins stop prostitution of gold
The price of commodities becomes artificially inflated because of bad money, or artificial currency notes. Bad money drives away good money. Instead of paper currency, actual gold coins should be used for exchange, and this will stop prostitution of gold. More ≻ Economic Models and Cows
If you have cows and if you have got land, then you till the land, get grains, and there is milk, there is fruit, there is flower. Anywhere, you can live peacefully. Whole economic question is solved. More ≻ The cheating goes on as long as you accept to be cheated
Money means gold. So instead of possessing gold, you are possessing some paper, written there, "hundred dollars." And you are such a fool, you are satisfied. You are being cheated. More ≻ Best of times, worst of times: struggle for existence
This Krishna consciousness movement has been started to give an opportunity to all the members of human society, who are misled by foolish leaders. More ≻ Instead of protecting the meat industry, promote cow protection
In rare circumstances, when people are suffering for want of grains, meat-eating or flesh-eating can be allowed, but not otherwise. The maintenance of slaughterhouses for the satisfaction of the tongue and the killing of animals unnecessarily should never be sanctioned by a government. More ≻ They Voted for Change: yesterday's law scrapped today
What is the result of their legislation? They enact something today just to whimsically repeal it tomorrow. More ≻ Vote of Confidence
I have got a particular lust within me, and when I find somebody corroborating with that particular lust, oh, I accept him, that leader. That is my position. Therefore I do not follow anyone's leadership, but I follow my own leadership. More ≻ Made to Serve
Despite becoming the highest executive in the land, one has to give service to the people. If that service is not given, one is likely to be usurped, fired, or killed. In the material world, service is very dangerous. If there is a little discrepancy in one's service, one is immediately fired. More ≻ Ready for World War III?
HANSADUTTA: So Prabhupada, is there something we should do to prepare ourselves for this disaster?
PRABHUPADA: What?
HANSADUTTA: This coming war.
PRABHUPADA: You should simply prepare for chanting Hare Krishna. More ≻ Guile, Gall and Gullibility
Chanakya Pandit has advised, vishvaso naiva kartavyah strishu raja-kuleshu cha: "Never place your faith in a woman or a politician." More ≻ India's culture given up to imitate the West
Material advancement will never make us happy, that's a fact. People have not become happy. In India they say that we neglected this material side, therefore not developed. But actually that is not the fact. They have lost their own spiritual culture; therefore they are not... More ≻ Electile Dysfunction
They are electing a big animal as president. And when he begins to eat, animal, big animal, then they protest, "Oh, now he's not proper president. Get him down, get him down." But why you sent him? "Because we are pigs; we have no other knowledge. We appoint another big pig as our president." More ≻ Consumed by avarice
Materialists are inventing so many artificial necessities, and those who have money, being allured by such artificial necessities, try to accumulate money to possess more and more. This is the idea of modern economic development. More ≻ Worth More: Gold; Worthless: Paper currency
The price of commodities becomes artificially inflated because of bad money, or artificial currency notes. Bad money drives away good money. Instead of paper currency, actual gold coins should be used for exchange, and this will stop prostitution of gold. More ≻ Taking Unnecessary Risks - from the top down
In the material world one has to work for the maintenance of the body and soul, but how can one perform such work in a way that is favorable for the execution of Krishna consciousness? More ≻ Overturning the Downturn of Kali-yuga
The earth is "overpopulated"—not in terms of mere numbers of people—but in the numbers of demonic people, those intent upon the cultivation of ignorant atheism and its attendant nihilistic self aggrandizement at the expense of all others. More ≻ Who really knows what to do?
We see that in some countries the government changes from party to party, and therefore the men in charge of the government are more eager to protect their position than to see that the citizens are happy. More ≻ Thrown Into the Wilderness
The nature is made so, whatever you do, for the time being you relish that "I have done something, I am now very comfortably situated," and so on, so on, but time will come, you will be kicked off from your position. You will be again thrown into the wilderness. More ≻ Vote of No Confidence
This is going on, legalized cheating. You have to accept this paper money. That's all. Don't ask for gold. And there is no honesty at all. More ≻ There's one right answer and a whole lot of wrong ones
Forty years ago the Founder-Acharya of the Hare Krishna movement, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, spoke of things we see happening today, and presented Krishna's socio-economic plan, as given in Bhagavad-gita... More ≻ 90-year-old woman a symbol of the times
If a person is able to care for or give protection to old parents, a chaste wife, children, the spiritual master, brahmanas and other dependents but does not do so, he is considered already dead, although he is supposedly breathing. More ≻ An Alternative Socio-Economic Model
If you have got grain, then you are rich. And if you have got cows, then you are rich. This is the standard of Vedic richness. They don't say, "Keep some papers and you become rich." More
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≻ Taking More Than Our Quota
"One may claim proprietorship to as much wealth as required to maintain body and soul together, but one who desires proprietorship over more than that must be considered a thief, and he deserves to be punished by the laws of nature." More ≻ Messin Wi' De Tar Baby
There was a fire in a house, and they came late, when the business was finished. And still they were insisting, "We shall pour some water." Everyone asked them, that "What is the use of?" "No, this is our system." More ≻ Passing the Buck
In the modern setup of democratic states the citizens can have no cause for grievances, because the whole administration is conducted by the people themselves. If the people themselves are dishonest, the administrative machinery must be corrupt. More ≻ Plundered In Kali-yuga, as stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam, the ruling class will be no better than plunderers because the third-class and fourth-class men will monopolize the affairs of the government. Ignoring the religious principles and brahminical rules and regulations, they will certainly try to plunder the riches of the citizens without consideration. More ≻ Prepare for Crash Landing
When a fiat currency, such as what the Federal Reserve Notes are, collapses, it is often FAST and Furious — and devastating. When the German Mark collapsed, in just a matter of days the currency lost value by 1000 times. In DAYS. Say the value of the US dollar drops by 1000. Last week you went to the store to buy a gallon of milk, say at $4 a gallon. This week that same gallon will now cost $4,000!!!!!!! More ≻ For the People, By the People
So these rascals, the rascal guardians, you have to fight with them, but not with sword or any other weapon; the sankirtan movement. More ≻ Sold out to debt and a false standard of living
Chanakya Pandit asks, "Who is happy?" He answers, "The man who does not work away from home and who is not a debtor—he is happy." Very simple. Yet now we see that practically everyone works away from home and everyone is a great debtor. More ≻ No Right to Tax
If a king cannot give protection to citizens from thieves and rogues both in the government service and in public affairs, he has no right to exact taxes from them. More ≻ Eaten Alive
Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled about five thousand years ago, yet government men are referred to as Rakshasas, or carnivorous demons. More ≻ The Manipulators
They are tireless in their efforts to illicitly amass great wealth merely to gratify their sensual urges. On the other hand, their competitors are no less expert in cheating them of their black wealth. How can such ruthless competition aimed at stealing one another's illegally-earned money bring about peace and prosperity? More ≻ Soft Cow Dung Laughing
We may think ourselves very safe because we have a big bank balance, but actually no one is safe. Eventually everyone will dry up and be thrown in the fire. More ≻ Military Draft on the Agenda
Human civilization means accepting this varna-ashram [organization of society according to occupations]. There must be classification. Not that everyone is the same, everyone on the same level. More ≻ Prolife Politics
The king represents all living beings, the aquatics, plants, trees, reptiles, birds, animals and man. Every one of them is a part and parcel of the Supreme Lord (Bhagavad-gita 14.4), and the king, being the representative of the Supreme Lord, is duty-bound to give proper protection to every one of them. This is not the case with the presidents and dictators of this demoralized system of administration, where the lower animals are given no protection while the higher animals are given so-called protection. More ≻ Sticking it to the taxpayers who vote for them
That is predicted in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that in Kali-yuga the mlecchas (means the rejected from human society), such persons, rogues and fools and rascals, they will take the post of king. They are unworthy to be kicked, but they will take the post of government. And what will be their business? They will eat the citizens. That's all. Vital force. Vital force, blood-sucking, tax. More ≻ In the Guise of Protectors
The various states of the world are preoccupied with arranging for military strength. Sometimes they spend sixty-five percent of the government's revenue for this purpose. But why should people's hard-earned money be spent in this way? More ≻ Does your vote count?
The thieves and rogues of modern democracy seek election by misrepresentation of votes, and the successful rogues and thieves devour the mass of population. More ≻ Produce food grains, not beef
Instead of cutting the throat of the cows, you can grow your food. Why you are cutting the throat of the cows? After all, you have to get from the land. So as they are—the animals which you are eating—they are getting their eatables from the land, why don't you get your eatables from the land? More ≻ Riding on Scandal
The public will understand that "I also eat meat, I also drink, do the same thing. Why the leader should be something, saintly person? After all, he is our leader. So we are of the same character. So why the leader should be something different?" More ≻ Prepared to Lead?
Somebody says that "You become vice-president." So why shall I become vice-president? Because I know I shall not be able to do anything. So why shall I waste my time? So another rascal, he will be ready. "Oh, offering vice-president?" But I know that if I want to manage the state, I have to make the people sinless. So if I propose that "Stop this slaughterhouse," so who will accept me? More ≻ Bambi Obama's running mate a warmonger?
Present fighting, the politicians, out of their whims, they declare war, that is not religious fighting; that is abominable. That is to serve their political ends. When the politicians cannot control the mass of people being dissatisfied, they make a clique to declare some war so that all their attention may be diverted. This is politics. More ≻ This democracy is demon-crazy
In Aprilish, a devotee blogger even compared Obama to Brahma. Yeah, Lord Brahma. There were other postings gushing about how super awesome Obama was and how Krishna is blessing us with him. Someone certainly drank the Kool-Aide on this one. More ≻ Varnashram: progressive, cooperative society
The whole Vedic civilization is meant for making people brahmana. Not to keep him in ignorance, not to keep him in the position of a shudra. The whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence one can be elevated to the highest grade. More≻ When spending millions on propaganda is justified In ordinary political rallies, millions of dollars are spent for propaganda to elect an unknown man as leader. We are also making propaganda, but for the real leader—God, or Krishna. The Vedas say that God is the leader of all living entities. To make this fact known, we are prepared to collect unlimited amounts of money and spend it to glorify Krishna. More ≻ A Headless Society
At the present moment there is no intelligent class of men. But kalau shudra-sambhavah. Therefore things are all in chaos. Everywhere you go, any part of the world, nobody is happy, either in family or community and society, nationwide, you take. Everywhere is distrust, unhappiness, godlessness. Because the intelligent class of men is finished. More ≻ Indian Government Official: "Let them eat rats"
People are now addicted to eating animals, in spite of having an ample supply of grains, fruits and milk. More ≻ Neither Pakistani Nor Indian
Next life, you can take birth in Russia, or you can take birth in India—there is no certainty. But according to Bhagavad-gita, you can understand at the time of death, if you are going on thinking, "Oh, Pakistan is my enemy," then you get a birth in Pakistan. More ≻ Tigers are for Killing and Getting Killed
This demonic civilization is simply meant for being shot down by the laws of nature. Therefore you'll find revolution, war, in the western part of the world. They are being shot down by the laws of nature. They are thinking, "If we become tigerlike, our life is successful." But they do not know that if you become tigerlike, demon, you are just become suitable for being shot down. More ≻ Trespassers will be shot
How much fighting is going on between nation to nation, person to person, community to community. ...The people go there, fight with one another. Then the United Nations... What is that United Nations? I have already explained many times, assembly of barking dogs. That's all. United Nations. They will never unite. More ≻ Who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil?
GUEST: How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krishna or not?
PRABHUPADA: Yes.
GUEST: For example, a soldier fighting in a war...
PRABHUPADA: Yes. Then you have got to talk with Krishna...
GUEST: Or somebody...
PRABHUPADA: Just like Arjuna talked.
GUEST: No, I mean, for example, you know, somebody dropping bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How does he know...? More ≻ End of a Lifetime of Unfinished Work
So human life should be for determining where I am going when I finish this life. When this body is finished, am I going to take another body because I have so many plans and desires which I could not fulfill in this body? Or am I going to be liberated and not accept another body to repeat the struggle of existence? More ≻ An extreme proposition after Marx's heart: Disband religious communities for the good of the state
HAYAGRIVA: [Carl Jung] says, "If the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption." More ≻ Cows' milk: essential food and socio-economic component
Anyone can live only on milk. If you have got the opportunity to drink one pound milk maximum, not very much—half-pound is sufficient; suppose one pound—then you don't require any other foodstuff. Only this cow's milk will help you. It is so nice. And it gives very nice brain... More ≻ World War III Dead Ahead
The world is headed for such a breakdown in the fever of war, and these atomic weapons will certainly be used. There is no precedent in history where men have created weapons and then put them aside and become peaceful. More ≻ Poorest Billionaires
First of all, the government is cheating. He is giving me paper in the name of money, and forcing me to accept it. More ≻ Who Keeps His Promises?
The politicians, they have made the minds of general people, general public, that they're very much interested what the politician says. Every day he's simply speaking all nonsense; still, they're interested. More ≻ Transforming the Untouchables
The shastras do not speak of untouchables. Everyone is eligible to practice Krishna consciousness and return to Godhead, provided the necessary spiritual qualifications are there. More ≻ Reconstructing Civilization
Now they are trying to destroy us. And we are trying to destroy them. The conflict is already there. And this is now psychological fight. And then there will be actual fight. And we must take part in that fight. More ≻ Inflation Cheats Beggar
Because I know that paying you a piece of paper, I can cheat you, therefore I am printing notes, to cheat so many people. Therefore inflation. But when there will be no possibility to cheat you, then there will be no inflation. Here I have got the opportunity, because I know that pushing forward a piece of paper, I can cheat so many people. So there must be inflation. More ≻ Heroes and Good Government
The relationship between the citizens and the government should be exactly like that between father and son. When the sons in a family are well trained, they are obedient to the father and mother, and when the father is well qualified, he takes good care of the children. More ≻ Politics As Usual: that elusive thing called Truth
A politician, he cannot become actually truthful. Then the whole business will be spoiled. More ≻ Vedas unlocked from Sanskrit
The Vedic mantras are received not by learning Sanskrit, but by hearing from the authorized person. Therefore it is called shruti. It is in Sanskrit because there was no other language. Sanskrit was the only language. So now they're being translated into English. So it doesn't matter whether it is in Sanskrit or English, one has to learn it by hearing from the proper person. More ≻ Electing a person like me
This election, we are selecting another person. He is also like me. I am a pashu [animal]. How can I select a person who is not pashu? More ≻ Feeding Industry's Insatiable Appetite
A huge arrangement exists for the production of large-scale industrial and agricultural products, but all these products are meant for sense gratification. Therefore despite such productive capacities there is scarcity because the world's population is full of thieves. More ≻ Change is nothing new in this game
They enact something today just to whimsically repeal it tomorrow. One political party utilizes a country for one purpose, and the next moment another political party forms a different type of government and nullifies all the laws and regulations. More ≻ Beef and the degradation of the human race
Beef is forbidden in the scriptures, and the bulls and cows are offered special protection by followers of the Vedas. But in this age of Kali, people will exploit the body of the bull and the cow as they like, and thus they will invite sufferings of various types. More ≻ Dangerous Times
You can rise up to a very nice post, just like the President Kennedy. Oh, with great endeavor he rose up to that post, and all of a sudden he was shot down. So this material world is like that. You cannot have, I mean to say, undeterred, without any impediment, pleasure. More ≻ Mantra War
At the present moment this warfare is carried on gross weapons. But finer than that, there is mantra war. More ≻ Back to the Land
Our farm projects are an extremely important part of our movement. We must become self-sufficient by growing our own grains and producing our own milk, then there will be no question of poverty More ≻ Give us a leader we can look up to
Therefore leaders must be very ideal men. Then automatically the country or the society becomes nicely situated. More ≻ America can save the world, but can America be saved?
On April 4th 1975, in Sri Dhama Mayapur Srila Prabhupada made a very unique and amazing request to his American disciples. I was seated perhaps 10 feet away from His Divine Grace when he said the following and these words have haunted me ever since. More ≻ Fit for duty: physical fitness is not the main criterion
The American boys, who have simply been trained as shudras, are not at all fit to fight in battle. More ≻ China: the Far West
Human civilization began in the East, in India, with the Vedic civilization, and has moved westward ever since. More ≻ How much food do you need?
Material facilities, I think you American boys and girls, you have got material facilities better than any other nation. At least better than India, that I can say by my experience. And I have traveled in so many countries, in Japan also I have seen, but still you are better positioned. More ≻ Promises, Promises
Sometimes the washerman sits on his back and takes a bunch of grass and puts in front of the ass, and the ass wants to take the grass. But as he moving forward, the grass is also moving forward. More ≻ India's spiritual culture
One reason I came to the West is that modern India has rejected spiritual knowledge. Today Indians think that if they can imitate Western technology, they will be happy. More ≻ Revolution
The American Revolution has no special significance. The point is that when people become unhappy, they revolt. That was done in America, that was done in France, and that was done in Russia. More ≻ Oil prices gone to hell and humanity likewise
You require lamp. So you finish that lamping business as simply as possible. In the balance time you save you improve your self-realization. More ≻ Farming Priority: grow foods locally for human consumption
They are growing food grains for the animals, and the food grains are eaten by the animals, and the animal is eaten by man. They are producing food grains. More ≻ Service and Servitude
I join some political party because I am finding out the opportunity how I can become a minister or how I can capture some power by going through this political party. This is my real aim. I do not go to serve the country. Maybe one or two. But my real purpose is how to get some opportunity, some position. Therefore I am not serving that party but I am serving my ambition. More ≻ What is worth praying for?
We do not ask or pray for catastrophes, yet they come without invitation. Similarly, whatever happiness is there for our enjoyment will also come without our asking for it. More ≻ Revive Local Economies, Self-sufficiency
They will see that it is possible to live locally without movement, and still highly cultured men, self-sufficient. More ≻ Recipe for Gold
Apart from this, if one takes a hint from this verse and learns how to mix mercury with bell metal by properly heating and melting them, one can get gold very cheaply. More ≻ Overpopulation a Myth
This theory of overpopulation is nonsense. It is also nonsense. There cannot be overpopulation. But there is restriction, by nature. Nature will restrict production of food if there are demons. More ≻ Fiat currencies fail
It is on trust only: "Yes, government will pay me." They'll never pay, but so long the government goes on, it will go on, that's all, cheating will go on. And as soon government fails, you throw in the street, no one will care for it. More ≻ Extinct Species: the petrodollar
What is your position? You have a bunch of paper and think, "I am a millionaire." What is the value of that paper? Is that not cheating? More ≻ Food crisis is not the real problem
Actually it is not a question of over population but of equal distribution of food. More ≻ Overhaul the Society
The vaishyas must be engaged in producing foodgrains, but they are not interested. They are interested for opening factories for bolts and nuts and tires... More ≻ The War Against Evil
If society creates animals, then how can it expect peace and prosperity? In spite of so many big universities and all educational facilities, this society is producing hippies and frustration amongst the youth because we are spirit soul and cannot become happy simply by amassing material comforts. We must have spiritual life. More ≻ Who is controlling water and oil?
Suppose you have got some water. How long it will be conserved? The water supply is stopped. Now suppose it's the ocean. There's enough water, but if Krishna desires, it will be dried up. Then, where you will get water? So what is the meaning of their such conserving? More ≻
Worldwide shortage of food grains
But people's attention has been diverted in the industrial activities. They are given allurement, "Come here. I shall give you twenty rupees per day. You give up your agricultural activities. You come in the factory. More ≻
Animal Welfare vs Sacred Cow
We are drinking the milk of the cow, and in exchange, if we cut the throat of our mother, that is not civilization. More ≻ Votes Without Value
They themselves do not know the highest perfectional aim of life. Therefore, votes cast by them actually have no value, and thus persons elected by such irresponsible votes cannot be responsible representatives... More ≻ Looking for Honesty in a Leader?
...If a man is honest, you can trust him. This is our experience. So similarly, if the leaders be good according to this standard, then the whole human society will be happy. More ≻ The Old Man, McCain
The greatest enemies of progressive spiritual culture in human society are the old fossils of political parties who are blind themselves and who try to lead other blind men. More ≻ Out of Work, Out of Order
If you want to pay to the worker, [you have to pay] a big, big salary. So they want to save. They are taking machine, and they think they will save money, so many workers. But the workers are becoming unemployed. The government has to give them welfare. The government will tax. More ≻ The Great American Export: Faux Freedom
A dog in the park is jumping very fast, walking. But as soon as the master, "Come one. Come one," immediately, "Yes, sir." "Give me your neck." "Yes, sir." Chain. More ≻ "Banking, Fanking" - Banks will Collapse
So this banking, "fanking," everything will collapse automatically. There is no money, who is going to keep money in the bank? More ≻ Wheat Shortage: Grains Diverted to Feed Livestock
According to the law of necessity, first of all human society must try to produce food grains and vegetables, but if they fail in this, they can indulge in flesh-eating. More ≻ What Americans look for in a president
If one is woman-hunter and drunkard and meat-eater, oh, his social position is very nice, up-to-date. Up-to-date. This is modern civilization. More ≻ Itching for a Fight
Simply they fight and loss of life and money, energy. War must be for the good. If there is some war, it must be for some good. But where is that goodness? More ≻ Food Prices Soaring
Human civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs. More ≻ Change You Can Forget About
So this is our mental creation only—"This is good, this is bad." We are doing that. Just like in political field. "This party is nice. This party's bad." But any party goes in the power, your condition is the same. More ≻ Guilt by Association: Choose Your Friends Carefully
So this association is very, very important. By association... Sangat sañjayate kamah. If you associate with good association, then you become good. And if you associate with bad association, then you become bad. Therefore we are establishing Krishna conscious society. More ≻ Metal Worth More Than the Money
Things of value, they're disappearing. Just like formerly people used to have some dishes of valuable metals. Now it is plastic. This is the advancement. More ≻ No Class Equals Low Class Government
The shudra is not fit for government management. As such we find so many difficulties in the government because the head or the head man, they are all shudras. They have dressed like administrator, but they are shudras. This is the symptom of Kali-yuga. More ≻ Conflicts of Interest
Due to their greed for material position, they falsely present themselves as leaders before the people and collect their votes, although they are completely under the grip of the laws of material nature. More ≻ Money Owns "Democracy"
RAMESVARA: Just like one of their arguments is that these rich bankers, they can control how much money is being printed.
PRABHUPADA: Yes, suppose I stand for presidency, and I take money from bank and bribe and get vote.
RAMESVARA: So they can actually create, by their control, a depression.
PRABHUPADA: Yes, money can buy. The real thing is money. That is stated in the Bhagavata. Money is the criterion in the Kali-yuga. More ≻ Who is that Superior Person?
Now it is up to you to select who is that superior. But the principle is there. Now so many political parties, they have selected one god. Somebody has selected Churchill. Somebody has selected Gandhi. Somebody has selected somebody, somebody. But they must have to select. Our proposition is: "If you are selecting somebody to worship, why not the perfect? More ≻ Where is that most valuable thing?
So that is very advanced stage, when one knows that everything is made of matter, so what is the value? Why you can't give more value to the stone, because originally everything is made of matter? There is one thing, panditah sama-darshinah [Bg. 5.18]. But that is when one has attained a very perfectional stage, not for the ordinary man. Ordinary man, you cannot say that "I treat a piece of stone and piece of gold the same way.' More ≻ Artificial Dependence on Imports
You must have sufficient food grain to feed the human being and the animal, and everything will be peaceful immediately. Because people, if one become hungry, he is disturbed. So give him food first of all. That is Krishna's injunction. Is that very impossible, impractical? No. You grow food more and distribute. So much land is there, but we are not growing food. More ≻ Violence at the Table
According to Vedic scriptures, civilization begins with the cultivation of food. Barbarians are those who do not know how to cultivate the land and instead eat animals. More ≻ Carrying On Gandhi's Principles
Gandhiji, minus his spiritual activities, is an ordinary politician. But actually he was a saint amongst the statesmen and his basic principle was to overhaul the very foundation of present civilization by the novel philosophy of satyagraha and nonviolence. More ≻ Breaking out from conditional life
This is called conditioned life. There are so many instances. Just like even on this planet if you want to go to other countries, say, America, you have to fulfill so many conditions. Passport, visa, then P-form and so many other forms. Not easily. This is called conditioned life. We have no freedom to move. More ≻ What Economic Problem?
Those who are not human beings, the animals, the birds, the beasts, and the worms, the trees, they have no economic problem. I see in India the sparrows, they were chanting and dancing and eating. Here also I see the same sparrows. They have no economic problem because they are depending completely on nature's law. And because we have violated nature's law, we have got economic problems. We have created our economic problem. More ≻ Social Organization with a Spiritual Perspective
Sometimes people boast, We have gone from the hut to the skyscraper. They think this is progress. But in the Vedic system of civilization, one thinks about how much he is advanced in self-realization. More ≻ Bankrupt Economy For the People, By the People
The artificial way of living depending on factories and tools can render so-called happiness only to a limited number at the cost of millions. More ≻ Gold price skyrocketing, but it's time we can't afford
So suppose today is 6th December. Now seven o'clock, morning, seven o'clock, 6th December, passed. Can you bring it again by paying one crores of gold coins? More ≻ Prosperity Means Sufficient Food Grains
Trade is meant only for transporting surplus produce to places where the produce is scanty. But when traders become too greedy and materialistic they take to large-scale commerce and industry and allure the poor agriculturalist to unsanitary industrial towns with a false hope of earning more money. More ≻ Fixing the Blame on Worthless Leaders
The age of Kali means mismanagement and quarrel. And the root cause of all mismanagement and quarrel is that worthless men with the modes of lower-class men, who have no higher ambition in life, come to the helm of the state management. More ≻ Get to safety off the well-beaten track
If you have got grain, then you are rich. And if you have got cows, then you are rich. This is the standard of Vedic richness. ... They don't say, "Keep some papers and you become rich." All rascal, one thousand dollar "I promise to pay", a piece of paper. Practical, we have got enough food grains. More ≻ Not At All Safe and Secure
You have created this material civilization, very advancement. That is all right. But whether you have made any security arrangement that you'll be able to enjoy them? Is there any arrangement? Eh? This requires little brain. Because at any moment we may be kicked out of the situation. There is no guarantee. More ≻ Democratic Ways
The thing to take note of is that no demon will compliment other demons' plans. Every demon will declare that since his plan is the most wonderful, all others must vote for him. Then an opponent will say that in actuality his plan is the best and hence he should rightfully be given all the votes. More ≻ One Nation Under God
BTG: In the United States there has traditionally been the separation of church and state. PRABHUPADA: I am not talking about the church. Church or no church—that is not the point. The main thing is that the leaders have to accept that there is a supreme controller. More ≻ Voting in the Dark
They are simply changing some form of government, electing one rascal, again rejecting, another rascal, another rascal. Because they are all rascals, they have no other alternative than to elect more rascal. More ≻ Gone in a Flash
Sometimes politicians act most sinfully for their own sense gratification. It is not unusual for a politician to kill the opposing party. More ≻ Votes - even a great quantity - do not qualify a leader
Again election, as if election will change their quality. They remain... Let them remain as rascal, and simply by election, in place of one rascal, another rascal will improve it. This is the... Let them remain rascal, but get vote. More ≻ Land of Plenty
That is our mission that you produce food grains sufficiently and give protection to the cows so that food grains and milk will give you all benefits of economic question. More ≻ Who Owns America?
The land is there, and it is the property of God, but we are simply thinking, "I am the proprietor. I own this, and I own that." More ≻ My God
He's Lord of everyone. Therefore everyone can say "my Lord." That does not mean if somebody says "my Lord," He becomes monopolized. More ≻ Calling for Government Accountability
The government should not simply exact taxes for useless squandering; the tax collection should be utilized for the public welfare of the state. More ≻ Back to the Fields
After all, you will eat some bread and some fruit or some flower. Why you have invented so big, big factories? More ≻ Rascal Currency
But, they have lost all gold. There is no gold, simply paper. That's all. Simply blessing, "Yes, you'll get money." More ≻ Rough Times
In this age, if one man can maintain his wife and children, he will be considered a great man. More ≻ The Mother of All Mistakes
They are taking care of the shirt and coat, not the person who is putting on the shirt and coat. This is the mistake of the modern civilization. More ≻ We've got a job for you
Unemployment indicates that we are not serving Krishna. With Krishna, there is no unemployment. More ≻ Don't Expect Justice
Just like Gandhi refused to take justice from the British court. That was his one of the items. He said that "There is no justice. So we shall deny to take any judgement from the British Court." More ≻ The Role of Truthful Men in Society
Beginning from the president and down to the ordinary man in the street, nobody is truthful. Now the president in your country is being questioned so many ways because he has proved himself not truthful. So this is a forgotten story, truthfulness. More ≻ Got Silver? Got Gold?
The way of Vedic civilization is that whatever was used in household affairs had to be valuable. In case of need, such items of value could be exchanged immediately. More ≻ Getting Value for Your Money
So long the paper money you can exchange, there is value. Otherwise it is paper only. But if you have got actual commodity—grains and cows—then you can eat in any circumstances. More ≻ Money is Not Wealth
If people become enlightened, "No, we are not going to accept this piece of paper as one thousand dollars. We must have gold," so many things will be solved immediately. More ≻ Economic Policy a Recipe for Quicksand
No one has ever achieved the results he desired from material activities. On the contrary, everyone has been frustrated again and again. More ≻ Averting the Downfall of an Empire
Because of the poisonous effects of Kali-yuga, the Srimad-Bhagavatam says, dasyu-prayeshu rajasu: the government will adopt the policies of dasyus, or plunderers. More ≻ Will they ban gold?
Formerly in the currency, when you go to take some exchange, it was the etiquette of the teller to ask you, "What you want, silver money, gold money or paper money?" More ≻ Dollar at Zero Value
To determine what the value of the dollar is in relation to gold, or for that matter, what the value of anything might be to anything else, we must first establish what the goal or the "most valuable thing" is... More ≻ Bringing the War Home
They cannot make them sane and normal condition. They have no such policy, neither they do know it. So what to do? "Blow him. We cannot manage them." More ≻ Arms Out of Control
This is demonic. Kshatriyas' business is to see that the four orders of life are maintained properly, not increasing military strength only, overburdened. More ≻ Package Deal: Food, Clothing and Shelter Included
But to give food, clothing and shelter without giving knowledge of Krishna is useless, because the original cause of his suffering will remain; and it will continue to aggravate him in the future, not only in this life, but in the next life and the next, until he becomes enlightened as to why he is suffering. More≻ No Profit in Economic Development There is no profit in economic development, because even if we develop very nicely, as in America and Europe, the problems of life will remain the same. More≻ Bombs Over Baghdad Nothing more sobering than having to put some little child's brain matter back in their head while still trying to focus on speaking Krishna Katha to the dying child. More ≻ "Reap what you sow"
What does capitalism mean? If I can cheat you, that's very good. The more I can cheat–oh, a very good man, good businessman, entrepreneur, industrialist, investor. Even if someone has cheated all innocent people who have put their trust in him, he's regarded as a "good" man, "successful" man. More ≻ War Karma
The Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill," and they are simply engaged in killing business, and still they want to be happy. Just see the fun. Therefore Krishna says, "Yes, you be killed by occasional world war. You must be killed. You have created this situation. More ≻ Get to the Root Cause
Ultimate welfare, or ultimate charity, is to give the knowledge of Krishna. Christ called the fishermen and said, "Now you become fishers of men." He was concerned with missionary work, not with feeding and clothing people. He was concerned with enlightening people about their eternal relationship with God. More ≻ When Karma Matures
Nature's law is that every action has a resultant reaction. Governments have created many atomic weapons, and in due course of time, when the karma, or reactions mature, these weapons will be used, and the whole world will be enveloped in the fury of war. More ≻ Serving the Wrong Masters
You can go on giving service in this material world under so many designation, but you will never be happy, and the person to whom you are giving service, he will be not happy. More ≻ That's not money; it's paper
And what is this nonsense, keeping some paper and thinking he has got money? How cheating it is going on, from government's side. And therefore artificial inflation. You can print, so the price is increased. Because you haven't got to pay him real money, you print and pay him... More ≻ Responsible Government Means Respond
Rama-rajya means responsible government. Even during the time of Lord Ramachandra, one brahmana's son died. So he went to the king to challenge that "What kind of king you are that in the presence of the father the son is dying?" This is responsible government. More ≻ Rally to Save America
On April 4th 1975, in Sri Dhama Mayapur Srila Prabhupada made a very unique and amazing request to his American disciples. More ≻ Intrinsic Value: Accept No Substitutes
Like gold, whether we know the value or not (like a child may not know), the Holy Name has its own intrinsic value; whereas PAPER MONEY has NO NATURAL or intrinsic VALUE; it is simply a VIA MEDIUM to GOLD. More ≻ Shifting the Burden
Human society in the name of civilization is creating one kind of trouble to avoid another kind of trouble. More ≻ Restoring Money's Worth
Everyone can understand this is pure cheating. I give you a hundred dollars, a piece of paper. That's all. And you accept it. You want to be cheated. You thought, that "I have got now daily, hundred dollars. So let me work very hard." He does not consider that "I am not getting a hundred dollars. I am getting a piece of paper." More ≻ Bid to Escape Punishment
Sometimes, however, a criminal may escape punishment by the state, but this is not the case with God's law. One can cheat others, commit theft and hide, thereby saving himself from the punishment of the state, but one cannot save himself from the superior law, the law of nature. More ≻ Just One More Thing
Everyone feels spiritual life is very nice, but "I have to do this, I have to do that." One Christian saint prayed, "O Lord, please save me, but not today." More ≻
Spaced Out
All of us are insignificant. Even this planet Earth is insignificant. It is just a speck on which we are sitting and floating in outer space. More ≻ Why "God told me to do it" and "God speaks through me" doesn't fly
That is not possible. That is simply bogus thing, that you keep your sinful life, at the same time you want to see God, you want to talk with God. That is not possible. More ≻ Good War, Bad War and Collective Responsibility
In war either the husband or the brother or even the father or sons go to fight. And when they are killed, a fresh enmity is created, and thus a chain of actions and reactions increases... More ≻ To Vote or Not to Vote
INTERVIEWER: Vote for this man or that, what spiritual difference would it make, is that the way you put that?
BALI-MARDAN: Yes, as long as the candidate is not God conscious it wouldn't make any difference which way we vote, but if he's God conscious, then we'll vote. More ≻ Separation of Church and State Doesn't Mean Abolishing God
They've declared in the Constitution, "In God we trust." Now they must take it very seriously. What does it mean by "God"? What does it mean by "trust"? More ≻ The Truth is Out There
BUT WHO WANTS IT? Today I came across a post by Peter Mehlman at The Huffington Post: "Just Give Me Some Truth". Mr. Mehlman notes that: "...no matter what crimes the Bush administration commits, nothing sticks. Approval ratings plummet but still: no big trials, no major special prosecutors, no impeachment hearings, no outrage, no one convinced." More ≻ Democracy: the problem and the solution
The youthful generation of the present day is very enthusiastic in trying to overthrow the government in different parts of the world. But unless people are Krishna conscious like Dhruva Maharaja, there will be no appreciable changes in government because people who hanker to attain political position by hook or by crook cannot think of the welfare of the people. They are only busy to keep their position of prestige and monetary gain. They have very little time to think of the welfare of the citizens. More ≻ Fanaticism is Not Religion
Religion does not mean that you stamp some stereotype religion, "I am Christian," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Buddhist," and then fight. That is not religion. That is fanaticism. Religion means how one has become devoted to God. More ≻ Terror Alert: Living in Fear ... of Chillis?
REPORTER: Sir, this is the real present ugly reality here. We are being threatened.
PRABHUPADA: Huh?
REPORTER: This siren is a, shall I say, a very ugly reality before us.
PRABHUPADA: You are already in ugly reality always, twenty-four hours. [laughter] Suppose there is no blackout. Still, if you go in the street, is there guarantee that you will go home? More ≻ Yet Another Lunatic Mission
Hard-earned money is coming from the public and that they are spending it by shooting big rockets off to other planets. All they do is promise to bring back more dust. First they may get a handful of dust, then they promise to bring back tons of dust. More ≻ Protest for the Right Cause
Thousands assembled together and formed parties, chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra [Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare] and making a tumultuous sound of protest. More ≻ Religious books in prisons to be censored selected
The principles of religion are truthfulness, cleanliness, mercy and self-control. Our leaders are neither truthful, merciful, nor self-controlled. More ≻ Where Does the Money Go?
Unlawfully accumulated money is now being snatched from miserly citizens by various methods of state taxation for the future civil and international war fund, which is spending money in a wasteful and destructive manner. More ≻ 'Nobody has proved that Ram did not exist'
According to rationalists, anything that cannot be proven does not exist. Therefore, since God's existence has not been proven, he too does not exist. I want to ask them: "Has it been proven that God does not exist? So, why are you so eager to believe that God does not exist." More ≻ Evidence or Mythology?
Now, we have got evidence from the Vedic literature. But the other party, they have no evidence. They are simply speculationist. We can give some evidence. The Vedas are accepted by acharyas, and they are following, and they are getting the result. More ≻ No Sir, You are Not Safe
I am thinking, "Now I have got good home, good wife, nice children, nice bank balance. So I am safe now." More ≻ Trading in Junk
The central point is how to become advanced in Krishna consciousness by cooperation. This is India's civilization. There is no question of industry. Ugra-karma. It has been condemned in the Bhagavad-gita as ugra-karma, laboring very hard for livelihood. More ≻ Dyeing to be President
They are not leader; they are jackals. So jackals cannot anymore rule over. More ≻ Aid that Doesn't Work
Philanthropists and altruists do not realize that it is impossible to improve people's material conditions. More≻ Going Home However rich you may be, however prosperous you may be at your home or in your nation or in anyway as you think, but you have to think that "Actually these things are temporary. I am eternal. So what is my eternal function?"
More ≻ New Age Neo Conmen: Suck it Up, America It is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam that in Kali-yuga the heads of government will be plunderers and thieves. These thieves and plunderers take the money and property of the public by force or connivance. More ≻ Breaking History's Patterns: Change Yourself and the World will Change But you yourself can be Krishna conscious. You do not have to wait for the president. You can be Krishna conscious at once, so that at least your life will be successful. It does not depend on others. More ≻ From Superpower, it's a long fall to the bottom - but is USA more than halfway there? From history we can see that there were many powerful empires on the surface of the globe that were constructed with great pain and great perseverance, but in due course of time they have all been destroyed. More ≻ God and Politics But that means they do not understand what is meant by religion. They are thinking religion means some fanatical faith. They are meaning that. That is the whole world conception of religion. More ≻ Natural Consequences
Laws of nature means laws of God. It is executed through the machine of nature. More ≻ Out of Order - State of the Nation
Since the population is fallen in these democratic days, they can only elect a person in their category, but a government cannot run very well when it is run by shudras. More ≻ War Without End ...The so-called king and president is sitting very comfortably and the poor soldiers, they are fighting unlimitedly, and the war is going on for many years. More ≻ Where Gandhi's Good Intentions Failed: a wrong interpretation of religious principles If we do not follow the right person, mahajana — mahajano yena gatah sa panthah — then however I may be great in the estimation of the innocent public, that is wrong path. More ≻ Blind Leading the Blind
'What kind of leader I am? I do not know what is beneficial for me. I am such a leader. I am such a fool. I do not know my own benefit, and I want to become leader to lead others for benefit of life.' More ≻ Cheaters and the Cheated
We are worshiping the best nationalist, who is thinking in terms that "This place is mine," philanthropist or political leader. More ≻ One Common Enemy
And suppose war is stopped, nobody takes to war anymore. Now, how you'll stop the war of this material nature? More ≻ No Tikee, No Shirtee
It is very simple. Don't accept paper currency. It must be gold or some metal worth. Just like one dollar, it must be worth one dollar metal. More
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≻ Blind man, lame man
Our knowledge in spiritual life and your help, material opulence, combined together, there will be great change in the whole world. Cooperate with us. There is no loss on your part, but there is great benefit to the whole world. More ≻ Your Next Body Determined by Higher Authorities
You have to change your body. Next body you can get a cat's body or dog's body, a tree's body or a demigod's body or a Brahma's body or a Indra's body, Indian body, American body, serpent body, insect body, bird's body, aquatic, any, any... There is no guarantee. More ≻ Should be War against Demonism, Not Terror
Your leaders do not see this sameness between their demonism and the communists' demonism. America has to stop demonism. Then your nation will be the real leader of the world.
More ≻ Playing
One Side Against the Other: stone boats sink
If society is guided by political diplomacy, with one nation
maneuvering against another, it will certainly sink like a stone boat.
More≻ Wet Stool,
Dry Stool
Stool is stool, but somebody is saying that wet stool is better than
dry stool. What is this good and bad? More≻ Graduating to
gut fish and sweep floorsTechnology,
one is very expert in some particular line of technology, say, computer
machine... You know how to operate. It is a big qualification. But
unless he gets a job under some big establishment, he is useless. He
cannot live independently. More≻ They've Sold
Their Souls The grossly materialistic demons are so completely bereft
of spiritual knowledge that although at every moment they perceive the
transience of the material body, all their activities center on the
body. More≻ Holy
Cows, Sacred Bulls The principal sign of the age of Kali is that lower-caste shudras,
i.e., men without brahminical culture and spiritual initiation, will be
dressed like administrators or kings, and the principal business of
such non-kshatriya rulers will be to kill the innocent animals,
especially the cows and the bulls... More
≻ Bush, Nixon and the People: cow dung wet and dry President Nixon was thinking, "I am very fortunate. I have become the president of the
United States." Then he soon realized that he was most unfortunate.
More ≻ Dying Every Day Disrupts Life - Duh?
...daily, every day, every moment. At least every day we see so many deaths listed. If you go to the crematorium ground, you can see. ...But those who are still alive, they think death will not take place. More≻ Electing Dogs, Pigs,
Camels and Asses The public must be educated so that they may not elect
another big dog or big camel or big ass to the exalted post. It is the
public's fault. More ≻ Utilize Cows - Don't Kill "Discrimination is the
best part of valor." So you have to eat something, but if you have got
grains, vegetables, milk, very nice preparation, why should you kill
cow? More
≻ Conflict Without Resolution They have got simply
that barrel of gun. That's all. And that is very rude. And it will
never come to perfection. For the temporary time, this party may win or
that party may win. That will never... More ≻ Caught Out by System Failure In Kali-yuga, if you
have no money, then you will not be able to get justice. More
≻ War for Oil America also must
agree that this land of America is also Krishna's property. If you
think that the Arabian oil is Krishna's property, God's property, "we
shall take it, by force", then why the Arabians should not be allowed
to come from the desert and live in America? More≻ First Ever Hindu Prayer Shouted Down in Senate HANSADUTTA: So who is introducing any other God? God is one. CALLER: True,
true. But see, what you're saying to your people is that you can see
eternal life through Him or whoever. True? HANSADUTTA: Krishna. Krishna
means God. More
≻ High Stakes Confidence Game
If you
say, "No, I don't want paper. Give me gold dollar," then you are
finished. Your currency will be finished. More ≻ Demons at War This
is demonic. Kshatriya's business is to see that the four orders
of life are maintained properly, not increasing military strength only,
overburdened. Everyone is spending 75% of the revenue for military.
More
≻ Owned by a Prostitute
The great
politician Chanakya Pandit said, "Never put your trust in a diplomat
[politician] or in a woman." Those who are addicted to unrestricted
sense gratification can never be truthful, nor can they be trusted with
any faith. More ≻ Recognizing a Lost Cause
People
in general must understand the importance of Krishna Consciousness, and
they must in this democratic day send their real representatives who
can make right decisions whether there should be war or no war. More ≻ We the People ...There
are many who are not in agreement with the state power. But they [the
politicians] are posing themselves, that "we represent America".
More
≻ A President Without Regard
"Whatever
action is performed by a great man, common men will follow in his
footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the
world pursues." More
≻ Justice for All ... With Some Exceptions The courts do not know whom to punish and whom not. More ≻ Declaration of
Independence But if
they replace Nixon with another Nixon, then what is the value? They
must know how to replace Nixon with a saintly leader. More
≻ Unfair Taxation ...At the present
moment, "You go to hell, but you must pay the tax. And we divide the
tax amongst ourself." That's all. Finished. Or we employ the taxes for
fighting, for declaring war. More ≻ "Again Become a Mouse"
By the
grace of God, Krishna, you have become so powerful nation, rich,
beautiful, educated. By grace of Krishna you have become, but if you
forget Krishna, then you are again going to be mouse. More ≻ Human Civilization
Downgraded The human being, if he does not realize God, he's
simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then
nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." More ≻ Rogues and Thieves in the Name
of Nationalism A group of
thieves stole some things, and when they were dividing, one of them:
"Kindly, morally divide. Morally divide. Honestly divide." More ≻ Got Money? Inflation problem, I
suggested, make gold coins as medium of exchange. More
≻ Countries, Not Weapons, Headed for Scrap Russia and America are not buying and building arms so that
they can throw them in the ocean and become friends. More
≻ Krishna Consciousness is Not Hinduism One should clearly understand that the Krishna consciousness
movement is not preaching the so-called Hindu religion. More
≻ Resurrect Human Society, Not the Draft Of
course that is required; to protect the society, to protect the
country, a military arrangement should be there. No one will
disapprove. More ≻ Danger of Communism
Out of
these two, the communists are going to be powerful. This is the world
tendency. So if the world becomes full of communists, then the human
civilization will be finished. More ≻ Misdirected Aid Backfires
Many
may claim that in the modern age material scientists have helped
increase agricultural yield. But we fearlessly proclaim that it is
precisely such atheistic views that have brought the world to the
present acute food crisis. More ≻ Representatives of the People To
whom are the officials representing the people? In other words, to
which higher authority are the elected or appointed officials
representing the interests of the common people? More
≻ Loyalty to Unworthy Masters
Today
you are a nationalist, you are a very great follower of your country,
but tomorrow if you stay in your country you may be a cow being taken
to the slaughterhouse. More ≻ Mob Rule Nowadays these
democracies' mob rule means instead of one king there are 300,000 kings
in a state, and they are looting the hard-earned money by income tax,
and everything is so polluted. More ≻ The Coming War
All Western adventure to keep people in darkness. And that is going on.
Now it will be smashed by the next war. Next war will come very soon.
More ≻ Class Not by Birth, Nor by Economic Status The
four divisions of society—namely intellectuals, administrators,
merchants, and laborers—should be determined not by birth but by merit,
just as one becomes a doctor or a judge not by birthright but by merit
alone. More ≻ Outcastes Cast Away Hindu
Bondage The
whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence, one can
be elevated to the highest grade. More
≻ What Good will Impeachment Do?
Why this government should you try to change? Where is the better
replacement? First of all find out the better replacement. Then you
talk of changing. Where is the better replacement? More ≻ On the Way to
Dictatorship? The people have created democracy, which is also failing.
Now, by the laws of nature, the time is coming when dictatorship will
put the citizens into more and more difficulty. More
≻ Petro Dollar Jitters
There
is a standard price of gold, so when I pay you money, it must be, carry
the value in gold. That's all. Then there is no inflation. More ≻ Taxpayer Alert: who's getting
taxpayer-funded foreign aid? The welfare state
imposes upon its citizens scorching taxes in various forms—income tax,
sales tax, land tax, terminal tax, excise tax, customs tax, and so many
other taxes. More
≻ Body Armor that doesn't
Protect the Armed Forces If
Krishna saves, nobody can kill; and if Krishna wants to kill, nobody
can save. More
≻ Cheaters and the
Cheated
That means it is a association of cheaters and cheated. Somebody wants
to cheat and somebody's being cheated. More ≻ Replacing One Politician
with Another - No Change People
are thinking that with the change of some politician something new will
be done and they will be happy. More ≻ Democracy Unraveled
All
these rascals, politicians, they are trying to occupy the post: "I
shall become president, I shall become secretary, and then I shall
exploit the state like anything." More ≻ Whose Nature is it, after all? There is a mechanism
that we call "nature." And from it is coming everything we see around
us. Now, how is it that this mechanism is so perfect? And who is it
that has devised this mechanism? More ≻ Inflated Money, Egos and
Government: Cheating the People of Venezuela The cheating business
begins from the government. And why people will not learn to cheat?
More ≻ No Avoiding Danger -
Green Zone an Illusion If one is on the ocean
one may have a very
strong ship, but that ship can never be safe; because one is at sea, at
any time there may be dangers. The Titanic was safe, but on its first
voyage it sank... More ≻ Tax Law, US
Government & Krishna - fiction when convenient? When I was in
Calcutta, there was a rent tax passed by the government, and some
expert lawyer changed the whole thing by his interpretation. The
government had to re-enact, you see, because the purpose was foiled by
the interpretation of the lawyer. More ≻ Whose Hard-earned Money? Right, you don't
realise you have such a precious commodity in yourself, but you have
sold it for a few trinkets. More ≻ Press Conference - Zero Without God Religion means these four principles: What is God, what we
are, what is our relationship with God, and act accordingly and achieve
the goal of life. This is religion. So any religious system which does
not consider all these things, that is not religion. More ≻ Biodiesel and Blood When animals are
killed in a slaughterhouse, six people connected with the killing are
responsible for the murder. More≻ Don't
blow on boils - operate! In the year 1931 there was a huge flood in the Mednapur district of West Bengal, destroying
many villages and many people's livelihoods. At the same time Sarasvati
Thakura was contemplating his "Theistic Doll Exhibition" and collecting
donations for it. More≻ The Role of State in Freedom of Religion State duty is the freedom of religion, but the state must see that a person advocating particular type of religion, whether he is acting according to that religion. More ≻ Thou Shalt Not Kill
It is
said in the Bhagavad-gita, samo 'ham
sarva-bhuteshu: [Bg. 9.29] "I am equal to everyone." Otherwise
how He is God? God is not partial, that somebody should be killed and
somebody should be rewarded with ten thousand dollars. No. It is our
own work, we create such situation. More
≻ High Cost of War
The various states of the world are preoccupied with arranging for
military strength. More ≻ War is Natural
Prabhupada said war cannot be stopped. He said war is natural. It's
natural. War means accumulation of sinful reactions, taking its toll.
We should stop birth and death, not war. More ≻ Send the President to
Iraq
When there was a war, the king was the first to fight. Just like your
George Washington. He fought when there was a war. But what kind of
president is ruling now? When there is a war he sits very securely and
telephones orders.
More ≻ Caught in the Economy Trap
And
bank will say that "You take money. You pay your bills. We'll give you
loan, we'll charge interest. And when you get your salary, then you
have to deposit it in the bank." And they'll adjust. And again you are
penniless. Again you take loan. The social arrangement is so made that
you simply depend on loan. More ≻ Sorting Heads, Arms from Legs The kshatriya class, they would come forward to be recruited by the military department. They will not go away. They will be very glad to accept military service, because in their blood the kshatriya spirit is there. More ≻ Jokes about Bankers
I'll
recite another very nice story... The story is that one poor man was
informed by his friend that "Money draws money." More ≻ Who's in Charge of the Climate? Nature is only a power, and behind the power is a powerhouse and a brain, just as behind electrical power there is an electrical powerhouse, where everything is conducted by the brain of
the resident engineer. More
≻ Wanted: Leaders of Good Character They are feeling the necessity of an honest leader, but they are themselves dishonest, the people. More ≻ Habituated to Unnecessary Things Chanakya
Pandit asks, "Who is happy?" He answers, "The man who does not work
away from home and who is not a debtor—he is happy." More
≻ Not Meant for Money
At the
present moment, because the whole population are shudras, as
soon as they get money, they spend it for wine, women, and squander it
away. More ≻ Self-sufficiency closer to the ideal civilization Whatever
he's grown he takes in a basket, goes to the market, immediately sold.
And they're all fresh. Collected in the morning, and it is sold by
eight o'clock. All fresh vegetables. There was no export, there was no
facility of transport. These rascals introduced transport. Big scale
transport, this railway. More ≻ Howling in the Market
What I
am? What is God? What is this material world? Why I have come here? Why
I am put into so much trouble? These are the inquiries. Not that
everyday go to the share market. That is not tattva-jijñasa.
That is indriya pritih, howling in the market. More ≻ Get Over the Obsession with Money Persons
who are interested in going back home, back to Godhead, should not only
engage in the service of realized souls but should give up the company
of materialistic persons. More ≻ Shelter from the Storm
The
wealth of the world actually belongs to Krishna, and every living
entity, man and animal, has the birthright to use God's property for
his maintenance. When one takes more than his maintenance requires—be
he a capitalist or a communist—he is a thief, and as such he is liable
to be punished by the laws of nature. More
≻ A Safe Prescription for Epidemic of Misplaced Faith Let this be the motto of life. We should not associate with the materialistic person, try to
associate with devotee, and always think that this world is for few
days. That's all. More
≻ Lunar Ski Holiday at Taxpayers' Expense They are already
exposed because they have left that expedition. That means they are hopeless. That is exposed. But foolish people will not ask them that "Why you have stopped this expedition?" They will again go on bluffing, and they will accept. More ≻ Consequences of Choice
There
is abortion. The body is killed. Contraception... The body is killed.
But the soul, he's not killed. If you make some inconvenience to the
soul, who has taken shelter in the womb, and you kill the body, then
he'll have to search out another body. More
≻ Four Wheels Off Track
In
human society either you become Christian, Muhammadan, Hindu, or
Buddhist; it doesn't matter. There must be some system of religion.
Human society without religion is animal society. More
≻ Governments, Climate and Karma If
the government or the chief of the executive power, the king, is just to
the point, dharmena, as it was said, "Abiding by the religious
principles, ruling over the country," then everything, even natural
elements, they become cooperative. More ≻ Man-made Food Shortage
Unless
the human society comes to the standard of executing Varnashrama-dharma,
it is not human society; it is animal society, no regulative principles.
More
≻ Secular Government, Freedom of Religion It doesn't matter whether one is Hindu or one is Christian, one
is Mohammedan or Buddhist. It doesn't matter. But it is a government
duty to see that one who is professing as Hindu whether he's executing
the Hindu principles of religion properly. More ≻ You Too Will Be Kicked Out
Today
you are a nationalist, you are a very great follower of your country,
but tomorrow if you stay in your country you may be a cow being taken
to the slaughterhouse. More
≻ The Clock is Ticking, But Time
is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The
duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in
cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one
day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or
ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. More ≻ The War Industry
The
big two wars of the world happened only on account of this industry. Do
you know that? The cause is the big, big industry. Germany industrial,
they produce goods. They must have market. But when they go to sell,
there is no market. Britishers will not allow to sell them. More
≻ Karma-free Welfare Work
We may
perform work which may be very altruistic or humanitarian in the
opinion of the world and yet be bound to material activity. So it is
not the action itself which is important but the consciousness in which
the action is carried out. More ≻ Out to Destroy The
unwanted administrators, puffed up by false power and military
strength, thus become engaged in fighting amongst themselves over
ideological conflicts and so exhaust themselves of all powers. More
≻ "Give it to Me," says Krishna
The
wealth of the world should be used for the welfare of all living
entities, for that is the plan of Mother Nature. Everyone has the right
to live by utilizing the wealth of the Lord. More ≻ Living a Life of Deception For a
transcendentalist, it is a suicidal policy to be intimately in touch
with the sense gratifiers of the world, because such a policy will
frustrate the ultimate gain of life. More
≻ Get Out of Danger
Now we have a certain body, and when this life is finished, we will never get such a body again.
More ≻ Worthless Money The modern economy is,
"Engage people in hard working to produce, and by artificial cheating,
secure the goods, commodities." More
≻ Solutions that Create Problems Man's attempts to adjust to the problems that nature
presents create new problems worse than the original problems. They
then try to solve the new problems, thus creating more problems.
More ≻ The Vanquishers are Vanquished So
many Hitlers, so many Napoleons, so many Churchills and others came and
gone. There was powerful British Empire, powerful Roman Empire. So
nobody's powerful. That's a wrong idea. In due course of time
everything will be kicked out and finished. That is the law of nature.
More
≻ Shortcomings of Marxism
We can
say with confidence—and they may note it carefully—that after the
Bolshevik Revolution there will be many other revolutions, because as
long as people live on the mental plane there will be only revolution.
Our proposition is to give up all these mental concoctions and come to
the spiritual platform. More ≻ The Direction of Care The law is cheating,
medical science is cheating, and the government is cheating. Top
government officials are charged with taking bribes. If the governor
takes bribes and the constable takes bribes, then where is the good society?
More
≻ Who's Wrong When Your Right is My Left? Somebody says "Keep to the left is right," somebody says "Keep to the left, it is wrong." More ≻ Krishna's Prescription for Good Governance This is going on: continually war, strain, politics, diplomacy, lecture, Parliament. There is no finishing of war. There is no finishing. It will go on. Just like same example: If you keep the dogs as dogs, they'll going on barking. It will never finish. So this is the civilization of dog work. It is not human civilization.
More ≻ Purify the Pollution
The
progress which is going on, let it go. But let it go, we do not want
that, but it has come so far, it is not possible to stop it. But here
is the remedy. You can purify it. More
≻ Of Friends and Enemies
In the
conditioned stage we think that some living beings are our friends
whereas others are enemies, and thus we are in duality. In the
liberated stage, however, the conception is that God is the master and
that all living entities, being servants of God, are one. More ≻ Misplaced Trust, Loyalties
and Votes
If the people become educated in Krishna consciousness, and if they
decide that "We shall vote for Krishna conscious leader," then there
will be happiness. More
≻ Capitalizing on Earth's Resources Everything belongs to
the Supreme Lord, and we can accept whatever we need, but not more.
That is knowledge. By the Lord's arrangement the world is so made that
there is no scarcity of anything. Everything is sufficient, provided
that we know how to distribute it. More ≻ The Inflation Game During inflation, the
debt collector loses while the debtor is getting ahead, because the
debt collector is getting nothing; whereas the debtor is getting
something in tangible goods. More
≻ War of the Politicians At the present moment,
the law is the civilians are not attacked. The military target is
attacked. That is the law. But they do all nonsense. More ≻ Population on the Rise
(or Fall into Lower Species?) The modern theory—the
population has increased— this is a nonsense theory. If there is
production is sufficient, where is the question of population
increasing? Let population increase. More
≻ Iron Curtain Deja Vu and Welcome (Not!) to the Nuke Club Very
quickly this Communistic feeling is aroused, and they fight, like cats
and dogs. "Oh, here is another dog! Here is another dog, coming from
another neighborhood." More ≻ Mud Eruption and Water Shortages: misuse of industry The
more we go on increasing such troublesome industries to squeeze out the
vital energy of the human being, the more there will be unrest and
dissatisfaction of the people in general, although a few only can live
lavishly by exploitation. More
≻ Poignant Reminder: Nobody's Safe
The
great ocean of material nature is tossing with the waves of time, and
the so-called living conditions are something like foaming bubbles,
which appear before us as bodily self, wife, children, society,
countrymen, etc. More ≻ Power to the People
If
somehow or other we can convince the majority of the United States
population to take to Krishna consciousness then the whole world will
become Krishna conscious. More
≻ Krishna's Socio-Economic Solution
Now
here is economics, politics and everything. So by Krishna consciousness
movement we want to see that everyone is getting nicely the necessities
of life. More ≻ My Muslim Brother
I was
hoping to read of the recent success the Sarajevo devotees had had in
book distribution, but instead I learned with great sadness of the
departure of a good friend of mine, Doctor Abdulah Nakas. More ≻ Cows and Karma
And
economically, also, it is very useful. Krishna has not recommended this
for nothing; it is not like that. Krishna's order has meaning. The cows
on our Hare Krishna farms are giving more milk than other cows—because
they are confident, "We will not be killed here." More ≻ Whole Human Society at Risk
ISKCON
MUST NEVER SEEK ACCEPTANCE FROM THE RELIGIOUS. ISKCON, SRILA
PRABHUPADA'S ASHRAM, SITS ABOVE ALL RELIGION. WE DEFINE THAT WHICH MOST
CLOSELY RESEMBLES HUMAN SOCIETY, or that social model created by Lord
Krishna, God Himself, to make this human birth OUR LAST! More ≻ First to Drop the Bomb
The
first party who will drop the bomb on the other party, he will be
victorious, and immediately the war will stop. More
≻ Incompetent Leaders
The
foolish leaders of a godless civilization try to devise various plans
to bring about peace and prosperity in the godless world under a patent
trademark of materialism, and because such attempts are illusory only,
the people elect incompetent, blind leaders, one after another, who are
incapable of offering solutions. More ≻ Preparation for Third World War
Rogues and thieves in the guise of
protectors arrange for a voting system, and in the name of democracy
they come to power by hook or crook and exploit the citizens. More ≻ No More Credit
Due to
the exhaustion of the pious results of their past deeds, Duryodhana, or
his father, Dhritarashtra, did not take the message very seriously.
More
≻ Water Supply Turned Off for Unpaid Debts
If you
don't pay debts, if you don't perform sacrifices, then there will be
scarcity of water. And one day it will come there will be no water.
More ≻ Stop the Killing, Stop the Cheating
Ignorance
is going as science. Irreligion is going as religion. So how long it
will go? People are becoming intelligent. More ≻ Un-united: cannot stop war
For
example, the United Nations is attempting to establish peace in the
world, but they cannot stop war. War breaks out again and again.
More ≻ False Claims to Justify
Encroaching on Others Proprietor
is the Supreme Lord; you are not proprietor. That is another point.
Falsely you are claiming proprietor. How you are proprietor? More
≻ We Need the Wholesale Solution:
war is only one symptom Absence
of war is not peace. Just think over. Suppose now there is no war. Do
you think that everybody is in peace? More ≻ Evacuation from Hell
The
Krishna consciousness movement is meant to help transfer souls out of
this material atmosphere into the spiritual atmosphere, where life is
eternal, full of knowledge and full of pleasure. The means for this
transfer is kirtan: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna
Krishna, Hare
Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. More≻ The Real Peace Formula We are simply guests on this planet for at most one hundred years. We come and we go, and while we are here, we are absorbed in the thought that “This is my land. This is my family. This is my body. This is my property.” More ≻ What is the Matter with the World?
The more the people are turning to the atheistic, the more things of
disturbing elements do appear before us. And that is the thing which
matters at present. This is a wrong type of civilization. More≻ Worldwide Contest of Military Might
Human
life is meant for attaining the highest perfection of Krishna
consciousness, but when people are godless and the presidents or kings
are unnecessarily puffed up with military power, their business is to
fight and increase the military strength of their different states.
More ≻ Dying for Recognition
Suppose
he has manufactured something that the earth will be finished. Then
he'll be also finished. So what is God's loss? There are millions of
earth-like planets floating in the sky. So one is lost. What is God's
loss? It is your loss, that you are finished. Is that very good
invention, to finish yourself? More≻ The Not So Holy Wars
It is
not meant for such a one who thinks that "My Hinduism is better than
your Muhammadanism," or he thinks, "My Muhammadanism is better than
your Hinduism." The matsaratam [envy], it is in religious
platform... There is matsara. That matsarata dharma,
that kind of religious system... More≻ Kill Inflation: insist on gold!
...One
of the major issues always in political battles is how would you
control inflation, how would you solve the inflation problem? More ≻ Fallible Planmakers
Due to
their unauthorized plans for economic development, the price of
commodities is rising daily all over the world, so much so that is has
become difficult for the poorer classes, and they are suffering the
consequences. More
≻ False Money
Instead
of money, you are getting papers. Money means gold. Where is gold? You
are cheated. Money means gold. So instead of possessing gold, you are
possessing some paper, written there, "hundred dollars". More≻ Phantasmagoria
The
whole universe, or for that matter all material existence, is moving on
as jagat, simply for planning business to make one's position
very comfortable or secure, although everyone sees that this existence
is neither comfortable nor secure and can never become comfortable or
secure at any stage of development. More≻ The Worst Things are Already Happening
In the
last stage of Kali-yuga there will be no food grains, no milk, no
fruits. It will be a very horrible time. People will kill their own
children and eat them, just like animals. More
≻ Quarrels Breaking Out over Trifles
These
literatures in the modes of passion and ignorance are distributed under
different labels, but they can hardly help the spiritual urge of the
human being. More ≻ Improving on Nature
If
there is no rainfall, what this improvement will help? So that is not
in your hand. That is adhidaivika. It depends on the demigods.
If they want, they can stop completely, no rainfall. Then what this
improvement will do? More
≻ Lingering Effects of Eclipses
The
45th day, or thereabouts, following an eclipse is a particularly
sensitive period as it marks the end of an E.F.I. More
≻ Addiction to Technology
For
every technological advantage there is also a disadvantage, and that
disadvantage obliges us to create another technological program to
counteract it, which creates still another disadvantage, which obliges
us to create another technological program. More
≻ Unworthy of Their Posts
In
this verse it is very clearly stated that a kingdom, state or empire
must be governed under the instructions of saintly persons and brahmanas
like the Kumaras. When monarchy ruled throughout the world, the monarch
was actually directed by a board of brahmanas and saintly
persons. More
≻ Kashmir Blood on British Hands
When
the Britishers saw, "Now the soldiers are coming in national movement.
There is no hope. Better break this and go peacefully so that our
business may not be disturbed, our relation may not be disturbed. Make
a Commonwealth and so on, so on, hodgepodge. And do as much harm as
possible dividing Pakistan and Hindustan..." More
≻ Dog's Race
Just
like this fixed deposit. I am giving actual money; they are giving a
receipt. And it will increase. What increase? The same paper. And
gradually inflation is going on. More
≻ Spinning the Web
Where
is the question of freedom?" These things have come from the foreign
countries, freedom movement. What is freedom? Where are you free? You
are completely under the laws of nature. More
≻ To War or Not?
So take
direction from Krishna and take direction from Krishna's representative
and you do it; then there is no karma-bandhanah. ... Otherwise,
we are bound up by the reaction of every act. More
≻ Kill and Be Killed
... Even
the heads of religions indulge in killing animals while trying to pass
as saintly persons. This mockery and hypocrisy in human society bring
about unlimited calamities; therefore occasionally there are great
wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill
themselves. More
≻ Kautilya's Artha Shastra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India Kautilya—sometimes
called chancellor or prime minister to Chandragupta, something like a
Bismarck 3 —composed his Arthasastra, or "science of politics," to show
a wise king how to defeat his enemies and rule on behalf of the general
good. More
≻ In God We Trust; Others Pay Cash
Fox
News highlights the debate whether the words "In God We Trust" belong
in the town and city council buildings. (View video "God and
Government" at Fox News.) More
≻ Wanted: First-class Man
First-class man means with
qualification who can control the mind, control the senses, always very
cleansed and truthful, very simple, full of all kinds of knowledge,
practical application in life, then to have full knowledge of God,
these are the characteristics of first-class man. More
≻ You are Cheated
Money
means gold. Where is gold? You are cheated. Money means gold. So
instead of possessing gold, you are possessing some paper, written
there, "hundred dollars." And you are such a fool, you are satisfied.
More
≻ Rains from the Sky by Chanting
They
can have rains from the sky by chanting. The rain will fall from the
sky. Who can check it? Krishna gives the water from the sky. Yajnad
bhavati parjanyah [Bhagavad-gita 3.14]. More
≻ Can You Pass the Test? 30 Qualifications for Human Society Nowadays there is propaganda everywhere, all over the world, for a secular state, a state interested only in mundane activities. More
≻ A History of Hare Krishna in Russia
The
four days visit of Srila Prabhupada to Moscow in 1971 miraculously
brought many changes to that country of atheism. More
≻ For Russia, With Love
The
campaign is set to unveil a devastating saga spanning nearly four
decades in which Russian Hindus are alleged to have been variously
vilified by the Soviet state, the Russian Orthodox church, Russian
Islamist and Jewish leaders and far-right nationalist politicians such
as Vladimir Zhirinovsky. More
≻ New World Order: On the
Basis of Spiritual Understanding At the
present moment, the modern civilization on the basis of so-called
scientific knowledge and economic development is trying to avoid God
consciousness, or Krishna Consciousness—that is the defect of the
modern civilization. More
≻ War and More War, As Far
As We Can See
It is
the person who rules, and not the impersonal government. If the person
is perfect, the government is perfect. If the person is a fool, the
government is a fool's paradise. More
≻ Social Consciousness Does Not Lead to God Consciousness From 1922 to 1941,
Germany had the most intense social consciousness ever known on Earth,
but it did not lead to God consciousness; it led to material, or
demonic consciousness. More
≻ The Real United Nations
The
United Nations organization, they want to unite. For the last twenty
years the United Nations are trying to unite, but the result is we are
disunited. Instead of making one flag, the flags are increasing every year. More
≻ Can't Get No Satisfaction
So
much human energy is being diverted to making money, for the general
population has increased its capacity to make more and more dollars,
but in the long run the result is that this unrestricted and unlawful
monetary inflation has created a bad economy all over the world and has
provoked us to manufacture huge and costly weapons to destroy the very
result of such cheap money-making. More
≻ Nuclear Reaction - Collective Karma
The
general idea of the public is that it is the political leaders who are
the cause of nuclear armament, nuclear arms race, stockpiles of nuclear
weapons, of which statistics tell us there are at least fifty thousand.
More
≻ Advancement of Civilization
What has the
advanced, civilized man learned in his universities and schools if half
the world is not clothed, fed and sheltered? That means he hasn't
learned how to show compassion and kindness. He hasn't learned
anything. He has learned how to simply profiteer, how to capitalize on
others' misfortune. More
≻ Paper Currency is Cheating
This
is the civilization, cheating, bluffing. That's all. They don't care
for the citizens. And as soon as there is some agitation, they declare
war, so that they can be engaged, attention is diverted. This is going
on. More
≻ News Alert — March Forecast
The
news media is reeling with a major maritime disaster that occured
Friday 3 February. More
≻ Where is the Real Money?
How
cheating it is going on, from government's side. And therefore
artificial inflation. You can print, so the price is increased. Because
you haven't got to pay him real money, you print and pay him... More
≻ Who will drop it first?
Now
the nuclear war means it will not continue very long. The first party
who will drop the bomb on the other party, he will be victorious, and
immediately the war will stop. They are simply arranging how to drop
the atom bomb first. More
≻ Talks with Stillson Judah - Part II
We
must restore religious leaders in the world. Otherwise, there is no
question of peace or love or brotherhood. The United Nations is talking
all nonsense. Not a single nation is united, and brotherhood is a
farce. Brother means one father. More≻ Talks with Stillson
Judah - Part I
Scientists
have worked to create this bomb. It will be used. That is the next
chapter of material advancement: complete destruction. All advancement
will be nullified, because it is built on a false platform. More
≻ People's Government
All
these men are exactly like dogs, hogs, camel and asses. So by their
vote, by the votes of dogs, hogs, camel and asses, another big ass, big
dog, will be on the government. So what does he know, how to
govern? More
≻ No Such Thing as Non-reality
"This is American property," "It is African property," "It is this. It
is that," so many madness. But the shastra says, ishavasyam
idam, everything Krishna's. More
≻ The Age of Nuclear Weapons
The
result is that we have now come to the age of nuclear weapons for the
destruction of material civilization. By the law of nature, the nuclear
weapons have been produced for crushing the result of blind-materialism.
More
≻ Struggling Under Misidentification
There
was a great Hindu-Muslim riot. Now they fought, Hindus and Muslims, and
they died. After death, there lying piles of dead body. No more Hindu
and Muslim. It is simply lump of matter. More
≻ Godless Leaders
The
government leaders have no human interests or spiritual interests; they
have doggish interests. Iran is barking at America; America is barking
at Iran... More
≻ Everyone is After the Oil
...We
should know what is the aim of human life. Then we have to construct
the social political, everything, favorable to that end. But they do
not know what is the aim of life. That is the whole mistake. More
≻ You Are Corrupt;
Therefore Your Government Is Corrupt How
there can be, because the democracy? You are corrupt, therefore your
government is corrupt. You correct yourself, the government will be
automatically corrected. More
≻ Live And Let Die—Wars
Fought For Whim
So
these wars are declared not for Krishna's sake; by the politicians'
whims. So they must be responsible for this war. More
≻
Polished Animals
A
human being has higher duties to perform than animals who are always
engaged in simply feeding their hungry stomachs. Yet modern
soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of a hungry
stomach. More
≻ Spiritual
Communism—Talks with Professor Kotovsky in Moscow To
maintain the peace and prosperity of the whole worldly social order,
you must create a class of men very intelligent, a class of men very
expert in administration, a class of men very expert in production, and
a class of men to work. More
≻ Appearance of Terrorists
Not Astonishing
Yogesvara:
One problem that seems to be occurring more and more frequently is the
appearance of terrorists... More
≻ Krishna Consciousness is
Not Cowardice
When it was completely
impossible to settle up the things between the Pandavas and the
Kauravas, then Krishna said, "All right, then there must be fight." But
a conclusive war, "not lingering for some years." More
≻ America Has to Stop Demonism
Why
America went to Vietnam? To stop communism, but ... we have to stop
demoniac civilization. Then the human society will be happy and in
normal condition. More≻ Energy Problems will be
Solved As Soon As We are Localized [Oil
prices are close to US$58 per barrel, having fallen from their all-time high of more than US$70 per barrel. When the oil companies reported highest profits in history this year (ExxonMobil alone reported $9.9 billion in profits last quarter), public outrage prompted the US Senate to... More
≻ They Do Not Know Who is the Right Man
Any
rascal makes some intrigue, and he gets vote. And then they detect,
"Oh, he's the wrong man." Again another is taken. More
≻ Man is the Architect of His Own Fortune
The good fortune that the man
has evolved out for him at the present moment can be amply verified as
soon as we receive our morning newspapers. The sample good news that we
are receiving now in every morning are as follows... More
≻ Body Without Head and Arms
The
head gives guidance, and the arms give protection. Without a head and
arms, the body cannot function. This is the world situation today.
There is no head, there are no arms, and hardly a belly; only legs.
People are working very hard, but they are not even getting proper food
and shelter. More
≻ Crying for Authority, Leadership
After
all, they accept authority. Either the doctor or the television, is it
not? More
≻ A Global Economy at the Price of Civilization
Has
this civilization produced anything but quarreling individually and nationally? More
≻ World in Danger
There
can be no peace if the communists or capitalists or any other party
claims proprietorship over the resources of nature. More
≻ Democracy is Demoncrazy
Well,
I've listened to all the leaders talk, Seen how they'd rather ride than
walk. And heard them give the cons and pros,
Of things that everybody knows. More
≻ Failure to Quell Riots Proof of Failure in Leadership Therefore
we find periodic upheavals in society in the forms of battles, communal
riots and fratricidal quarrels. More
≻ Cheating Business
Because
I know that paying you a piece of paper, I can cheat you,
therefore I am printing notes, to cheat so many people. Therefore
inflation. More
≻ Over-intelligent, Uncommonly Stupid
The
more educated they are, the more stupid they are. That means they made
bigger calculations on the same mistake. They have invested more time
and energy on a mistake than the common man. So they are uncommon.
Uncommonly stupid. More
≻ Fools Elected by Fools
“Oh,
you should have democracy. You can vote.” Vote for what? [laughing] Two
men are running for office, and ten million people are voting. So what
is the big choice? Both of them are rogues. [laughter] Fool’s paradise.
More
≻ Picture Puzzles & Government Cover-ups
Unless one knows the goal, everything in life
remains a puzzle. Just like a child's puzzle… unless the complete
picture is known, it is impossible to put the pieces of the puzzle
together, and if a wrong picture is supplied, it becomes even more
puzzling and impossible to put the puzzle together properly. More
≻ World of Terror
We
speak of terrorism from the Islam world, but more terrifying than all
the terrorists combined is the terror of old age, disease, and
unavoidable and inevitable DEATH awaiting every living being, be he
Arab, American, black, white, man, woman, rich or poor. More
≻ Who are the Terrorists?
The
government leaders, the educators, the scientists and
pseudo-religionists who perpetuate by conventional habit the bodily
concept—all of them are terrorists. More
≻ Who will Win?
Recently,
a United States Military General commented at a news conference: "The
insurgents cannot win." But even if the insurgents do not fire another
shot, how will you win? You will die without any insurgent making any
other effort, so what is "win"? More
≻ Sri
Chanakya Niti-shastra
Sri
Chanakya Pandit, also known as Kautilya, or sometimes as Vishnugupta,
attained lasting fame over 2300 years ago for two reasons... More
≻ Who Really is Behind the 911 World Trade Center Collapse? And to What End?
The
demoniac want to make a show of religion and advancement in spiritual
science, although they do not follow the principles. They are always
arrogant or proud in possessing some type of education or so much
wealth. More
≻ Globalization in the Face of Disparity
Human society is no longer bounded by geographical limits to particular
countries or communities. Human society is broader than in the Middle
Ages, and the world tendency is toward one state or one human society.
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