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."
The Primary Problem is Set Aside
Misguided policies bring us full circle
Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
The Lost History Of Helmand Afghanistan
If you look beyond the soldiers, and into the distance, what you are really seeing are the ruins of one of the biggest technological projects the United States has ever undertaken. Its aim was to use science to try and change the course of history and produce a modern utopia in Afghanistan. The city of Lashkar Gah was built by the Americans as a model planned city, and the hundreds of miles of canals that the Taliban now hide in were constructed by the same company that built the San Francisco Bay Bridge and Cape Canaveral.
...Almost immediately things started to go wrong. In 1949 the first, small diversion dam was built. But it raised the level of the water table in the whole area. And that brought salt to the surface.
The American engineers realised this meant that the whole project probably wouldn't work. But at that very moment President Truman made a speech promising to give aid to poor countries. It was the start of the Cold War and Truman was going to use development projects and American money to stop countries from becoming communist. go to story
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If the basic principle is wrong, then all their plans for becoming happy is also wrong. So he does not know what is the important factor. So when he comes to know that he is not this body, he is spirit soul—he studies what is the nature of the spirit soul, what is the necessity of the spirit soul—then he becomes happy. If he is under misconception... Suppose if I take you, Mr. Singer, as the coat, and I take care of the coat and not of you, person, then is that very good proposal? So that is going on. 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
Starting off on the wrong foot
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."
Actually there are innumerable problems in material life, but the
primary problem of BIRTH DEATH, OLD AGE AND DISEASE is set aside
by foolish materialists who are focused on solving innumerable
secondary, irrelevant problems, and this tactic then results in the
morphing of those problems into an infinite, exponential flood of
more problems, which ultimately drown the foolish materialist in a
sea of self-made, unsolvable problems.
THE PREMISE IS THE PROBLEM. If the premise is wrong (the bodily
concept of life), the conclusion must also be wrong. Thus we (this generation) are the end product of thousands of years of historical blunders which have brought us to the brink of self annihilation with the invention of ATOMIC bombs.
Still the foolish, godless leaders continue to indoctrinate each
successive generation of innocent school children and students by
perpetuating the BODILY CONCEPT OF LIFE in their schools and
universities, thereby producing frustrated, angry, morose, perverted
depressed, sex-lusty, drug and alcohol-addicted graduates, the
majority of whom are saddled with student loan debts totaling 40 thousand, 50 thousand, 60 thousand dollars or more.
Armed with a college degree for which the student has gone into debt
for the next 10 or 15 years, he or she goes searching for a JOB (the position of a street dog or prostitute) only to find there are no JOBS, and if fortunate, the highly educated and highly in-debt job seeker has to accept employment as a flipper of burgers, or sales clerk at a WALMART department store — and that only if he is lucky.
Therefore the intelligent person will think and must conclude that it
is better to ABANDON SHIP and embrace the life preserver of Srila
Prabhupada's teaching of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam,thereby beginning the long journey, Back to Home, Back to Godhead. At least in this endevour "There is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can save one from the most dangerous
type of fear." The fear of repeated birth and death.
Prabhupada remarked in this connection, "You have gambled away so
many lifetimes attempting to enjoy material sense gratification. Why
not take a chance and gamble one life in the determined effort to go
back to Godhead, and solve all problems WHOLESALE?"
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