Bhagavad-gita
As It Is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
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[Posted June
2, 2007]
The
Coming War
His Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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- June 1, 2007 - J.R. NYQUIST When Big Enemies Encounter Small Nothings ...Most Americans are unaware of Moscow and Beijing’s enmity.
They have been fooled, just as the U.S. Government has been fooled.
This is due to a sophisticated deception campaign operating on many
levels. For example, there is an ongoing campaign to hoodwink American
academics through university exchanges. There has been extensive false
advertising about free market reforms in Russia and China. There is
also deception through handshakes and hugs at high-level summits where
leaders supposedly look into one another's souls. False defectors and
double agents have also fooled the FBI and CIA.
...A serious man sees no danger in being clueless about sports,
celebrities or fashion. At the same time, to be clueless about enemies,
about those who are out to destroy you, is very dangerous indeed. Such
ignorance, in fact, is shameful and no excuses will be excepted once
cities have been bombed and whole regions devastated. If you think this
is an exaggeration, then you haven’t read much history and have no idea
of the precipice upon which civilization stands today. go
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Because
one has identified himself with a nation, when the
nation confronts another nation, so he has to sacrifice his life for
the nation. But we say, if I have to sacrifice my life—which I do, at
some point I have to give up this life—then let me sacrifice for the
highest cause, Krishna. Love of Krishna.
And even if I fail, if I don't
perfect, Krishna says there is no loss. There is no loss in that. When
one sacrifices for a material cause, he's just a loser. Look at all
those Germans who sacrificed. And the Americans who sacrificed. What
did they gain? Or when they went to Vietnam, what did they gain? Now
they're giving loans to Vietnam. And Russia…. This material see-saw is
all on the mental plane. Who is my friend today will be my enemy
tomorrow, and who is my enemy today will be my friend tomorrow. There
is no continuity. There is no permanence. It will come and go. more
Prabhupada: Yes. 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.
Tamal Krsna: [Surprised] Oh!
Prabhupada: Yes.
Tamal Krsna: Next war...?
Prabhupada: Your country,
America, is very much eager to kill these communists. And the
communists are also very eager. So very soon there will be war. And
perhaps India will be the greatest sufferer.
Tamal Krsna: Greatest...?
Devotees: Sufferer.
Srutakirti: Sufferer.
Prabhupada: Because America
is aiming to start the war from India.
Devotee: Oh!
Prabhupada: Yes. Because
India and Russia, they are...
Brahmananda: They are...
Friendship.
Prabhupada: No. Side by side.
If the war is started from India...
Rupanuga: So India will
become...
Prabhupada: And the Russians
are ready here already, I have heard, with soldiers and... Not
soldiers. I mean to say.
Hansadutta: Missiles.
Prabhupada: Yes. They are
also vigilant.
Visnujana: Will that help our
preaching, Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: Preaching will be
very nice after the war when both of them, especially Russia, will be
finished.
Rupanuga: They want to make
India the battleground?
Paramahamsa: Also,
Prabhupada, Atreya Rsi said that the Arabs are preparing for the war.
They're buying billions and billions of dollars worth of missiles and
jets and tanks from America.
Prabhupada: Yes, so they are
being prepared. War will soon start.
Visnujana: The Arab men all
go to America to be trained in the armed forces there.
Prabhupada: Hm?
Visnujana: In all the armed
forces centers in America, they train the Arab nations to fight.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Visnujana: They let the young
men come into the U.S.A. to learn how to use the missiles and
everything.
Pancadravida: Recently, this
Bhutto of Pakistan, he was very happy because they were talking about
lifting a ten-year holding on arms from the United States, and now,
they say, Pakistan will soon get arms from America.
Prabhupada: Yes, they are
getting. They are already getting. The Pakistan will start the war with
India. And then everything will be...
Devotees: Oh! Whew!
Devotee: Pakistan will start
a war... [devotees talking among themselves.]
Pancadravida: They have
started the war maybe eight times. What will the
devotees do while the war is going on?
Prabhupada: Chant Hare
Krishna.
Devotees: Jaya! [laughter]
Prabhupada: You have got only
business.
Pancadravida: Will we stay in
the cities or will...?
Prabhupada: We can stay
anywhere. We have got our Mayapur, Vrindavana. But the danger is the
government will say that "All Americans go away." That is the danger. I
am thinking of that position. What shall I do at that time?
Pusta Krsna: Take Indian
citizenship?
Prabhupada: Eh?
Pusta Krsna: Indian
citizenship?
Prabhupada: If you take, it
is very nice. Then they will ask you to go to war. [laughter]
Tamal Krsna: Will this war
spread to many different countries and continents?
Prabhupada: The actual war
will be between America and Russia.
Rupanuga: What about British
devotees, British citizens? Would the British be asked to leave,
British citizens? Commonwealth citizens?
Prabhupada: Britishers are
now finished. They have no importance.
Pancadravida: He means if
British devotees came to India, would they be asked to leave.
Prabhupada: No, no, I mean to
say... I am speaking of politics. Devotees are the same... Oh, British
citizens...? They may...
Rupanuga: You say the
Americans might have to leave. What about the British?
Prabhupada: But they,
generally, during wartime...
Visnujana: Everyone.
Prabhupada: ...they ask all
foreigners.
Tamal Krsna: Oh, I see.
Jayapataka: During the last
war, the Christian Mission of Krishnanagar, they had many Italian
priests also, but the government gave them permission to stay, although
India was at war with Italians.
Prabhupada: In the missionary
consideration, they can do that.
Jayadvaita: What will be the
position with the Chinese if the Russians and Americans fight?
Prabhupada: Well I am not a
politician. [laughter] China does not war, not want war. They want to...
Tamal Krsna: Develop.
Prabhupada: Construct.
Rupanuga: They're not ready.
Prabhupada: Yes. They are not
very much interested in war.
Paramahamsa: Srila
Prabhupada, you said that this war will destroy the demonic
civilization.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Paramahamsa: Does that mean
that it'll destroy all the cities and all the industries?
Prabhupada: War means
destruction of all cities. That is natural. You have got experience in
Europe so many times.
Hansadutta: Cities and
industries.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Hansadutta: Cities and
industries.
Prabhupada: Yes, that is the
main target.
Hansadutta: Nobody's
interested in a farm.
Jayadvaita: Without separate
endeavor, pure devotees are automatically expert in politics,
economics, everything.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Jayadvaita: Without separate
endeavor, a pure devotee is automatically expert in everything.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Jayadvaita: Politics,
economics.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Jayadvaita: Sociology.
Prabhupada: Yasmin
vijñate sarvam evam vijñatam bhavanti. If you know
Krishna, then you understand everything. That is the Vedic injunction. Yasmin
vijñate. If you simply understand Krishna... In Bhagavad-gita,
it is also said that "There will be no more anything to understand." In
the Ninth Chapter? What is that verse? Can anyone say?
Jayadvaita: The Fifteenth
Chapter.
Prabhupada:Avashishyate.
Jñatavyam avashishyate. You cannot...?
Santosa:Yaj
jñatva...
Prabhupada: ...cannot recite,
the whole verse?
Santosa: Yaj
jñatva neha bhuyo 'nyaj.
Prabhupada: That is the
second line. First line?
Santosa: Sa evam
guhyatamam vakshyamy asheshatah.
Prabhupada:Vakshyamy...
Yes, that is the verse. Yaj jñatva anyaj jñatavyam
na avashishyate. Krishna consciousness is such a great science
that if one becomes expert, then he knows everything.
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.
