{"id":683,"date":"2012-02-14T17:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/?p=683"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:40:38","slug":"bhagavad-gita-handbook-human-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/2012\/02\/14\/bhagavad-gita-handbook-human-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagavad-gita: Handbook for Human Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><div id=\"attachment_684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-684\" src=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/files\/2012\/02\/urban-migration-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"urban migration\" title=\"urban-migration\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/files\/2012\/02\/urban-migration-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/files\/2012\/02\/urban-migration.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Globalism has herded people to the cities, causing alarming decline in self sufficiency.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/globalists-worst-nightmare.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Globalists&#8217; Worst Nightmare <\/a><\/h2>\n<p> <span class=\"cite-news\">Land Destroyer Report &#8211; TONY CARTALUCCI &#8211; Mar 11, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Self-Sufficiency: a universal solution to the globalist problem.  &#8230;By moving to the city, people give up private property, cease pursuing productive occupations, and end up being folded into a consumerist paradigm. Within such a paradigm, problems like overpopulation, pollution, crime, and economic crises can only be handled by a centralized government and generally yield political solutions such as quotas, taxes, micromanagement, and regulations rather than meaningful technical solutions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also, such problems inevitably lead to a centralized government increasing its own power, always at the expense of the people and their freedom. The effects of economic catastrophe are also greater in a centralized, interdependent society, where everyone is subject to the overall health of the economy for even simple necessities like food, water, and electricity. <a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/globalists-worst-nightmare.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to story<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"subheadline\">Any problem you propose, there is solution in the <em>Bhagavad-gita<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"related_post_cont\">\n<div id=\"related_post_heading\">Five topics of the Gita<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"related_post_title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnaworld\/2011\/07\/06\/introduction-to-bhagavad-gita-as-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"related_post_content\">We are suffering or enjoying the results of our activities from time immemorial, but we can change the results of our karma, or our activity, and this change depends on the perfection of our knowledge. We are engaged in various activities. Undoubtedly we do not know what sort of activities we should adopt to gain relief from the actions and reactions of all these activities, but this is also explained in the <em>Bhagavad-gita<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnaworld\/2011\/07\/06\/introduction-to-bhagavad-gita-as-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/krishnakatha.com\/d.php?g=161889\" target=\"_blank\">conversation with press representative, Calcutta, March 21, 1975<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>If you read <em>Bhagavad-gita As It Is<\/em>, there is everything explained, everything. All problems are solved. Any problem you propose, there is solution in the <em>Bhagavad-gita<\/em>. Now this poverty, as you raised this question, poverty, so what is written there in the <em>Bhagavad-gita<\/em>? <em>Annad bhavanti bhutani<\/em> [Bg. 3.14]. This is instruction, that &#8220;You produce food grain.&#8221; Now, suppose Calcutta is a big city. Who is producing food grain? Everyone is trying to purchase food grain. But who is thinking that &#8220;Wherefrom the food grain will come?&#8221; Just see the foolishness of the people. You have to produce food grain. And there is ample facility. But throughout the whole world there are hundreds and thousands of cities. Now, who is producing food grain? The solution is there in the <em>Bhagavad-gita<\/em>. He said, <em>annad bhavanti bhutani<\/em>. Krishna never said, &#8220;By motor tire <em>bhavanti bhutani<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Bhavanti<\/em> means flourish. Everyone is engaged in producing motor tire, car, and they are flattering the Arabians for petrol. The same energy, if it would have been engaged in producing food grain, then where is the poverty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globalists&#8217; Worst Nightmare Land Destroyer Report &#8211; TONY CARTALUCCI &#8211; Mar 11, 2011 Self-Sufficiency: a universal solution to the globalist problem. &#8230;By moving to the city, people give up private property, cease pursuing productive occupations, and end up being &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/2012\/02\/14\/bhagavad-gita-handbook-human-civilization\/\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48],"tags":[263,260,262,259,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/krsnanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}