Prabhupada:
Nobody is interested. That is the difficulty in this age. Na te
viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum durashaya ye bahir-artha-maninah [Srimad-Bhagavatam
7.5.31]. They do not know how one can become happy. They are simply
hoping against hope. Durashaya. Ashaya means hope, and dura
means which will never be fulfilled. Durashaya ye
bahir-artha-maninah. Pradyumna: You wrote that essay one time, "Hope Against
Hope." Prabhupada: Yes. Hope against hope is which is never
fulfilled. Mr. Asnani: Living in the fool's paradise. Prabhupada: Yes. "This plan has failed. Now let me this,
make this plan. And then again fail? All right, let me this." This is
hope against hope. He's thinking that "This plan has failed. Let me do
this plan." Again failed? "Again another, again another." Mr. Asnani: Foundation, as you said, is on the household. Hari-sauri: Moghasha. Prabhupada: Moghasha mogha-karmano mogha-jnana
vichetasah... [Bhagavad-gita 9.12]. Hari-sauri: Baffled hope. Prabhupada: It will never be fulfilled, but still, they
will make plan. The Napoleon made a plan. Hitler made a plan. Churchill
made a plan. Gandhi made a plan. Mussolini made a plan. But the plan
and planmaker—all washed away. Things are going on as it is. Therefore
Krishna says, sarva-dharman parityajya: [Bhagavad-gita
18.66] "Don't make plan. Take to My plan. You'll be happy. I'll give
you." This planmaking... Our government has got planning commission.
The planning commission has brought people in such a condition that
they are dying of starvation. And they are taking salary, big, big, fat
salary. This is going on. Mr. Asnani: And taking share from the black market also. Prabhupada: How you can expect good wishes from such
persons? Very precarious condition. Your son, you take care. Now, as
soon as you make a committee to take care of your son, then everything
is finished. Is it not? The committee members will finish the son and
the son's maintenance and everything. But that is going on. Formerly
there was one monarch. He was acting according to the Vedic
instruction. So he was responsible. And if there are many votes, by
vote a government, a combination of plunderers, what they will take
care of the people? It is impossible. Otherwise why there was need of
dragging down Nixon? He was elected, wrong elected. Wrong must be. The
people are wrong. 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. Punah punash
charvita-charvananam [Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.30].
And what is the guarantee that another man is right? Because the
process is wrong. Hari-sauri: They're continually re-electing a new man. The
got rid of Nixon, put Ford in. Now they've got rid of Ford; they've put
Carter in. And then they'll get rid of Carter, and they'll put someone
else in. Prabhupada: Punah punash charvita-charvananam
[Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.30]: "Again and again chewing the
chewed." But if they make it point that "If one is not Krishna
consciousness, I'll not give a vote," then everything will be perfect,
nice. Hari-sauri: Some countries fine you if you don't vote. If
you don't vote, they fine you just to make people vote, because they
know otherwise everybody's so disgusted... Prabhupada: Just see. I have never given vote. Since we
have got this sva-raj, as soon as the vote question, I go away.
Because I think, "Why shall I give this nonsense vote? None of them are
liked by me." I avoid it. In my grihastha life [household
life], the municipal board and the..., I avoid. I don't believe in.
