scientific method to perfect life
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Imported quote 14840 My dear boy, all of us are bound by the Vedic injunctions to the divisions of varnasrama according to our qualities and work. These divisions are difficult to avoid because they are scientifically arranged. We must therefore carry out our duties of varnasrama-dharma, like bulls obliged to move according to the direction of a driver pulling on ropes knotted to their noses.
(More...) Imported quote 14841 It is best, therefore, to accept the injunctions of the Vedas, which are mentioned in this verse as yad-vaci. In accordance with those injunctions, everyone should find out whether he is a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sūdra and should thus be educated accordingly. Then his life will be successful. Otherwise, all of human society will be confused. If human society is divided scientifically according to varna and asrama, and if the Vedic directions are followed, one's life, regardless of his position, will be successful. It is not that brahmanas will be elevated to the transcendental platform but not the sūdras. If the Vedic injunctions are followed, all of them-brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sūdras-will be elevated to the transcendental platform, and their lives will be successful. The injunctions in the Vedas are explicit directions from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The example cited in this verse is that bulls tied by ropes in their nostrils move according to the direction of the driver. Similarly, if we move according to the instructions of the Vedas, the perfect paths for our lives will be set. Otherwise, if we do not move in that way but act according to our whimsical ideas, our lives will be spoiled by confusion and will end in despair. Actually, because people at the present moment are not following the instructions of the Vedas, they are all confused. We must therefore accept this instruction by Lord Brahma to Priyavrata as the factual scientific direction leading to the success of life. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (16.23):
(More...) Imported quote 17732 This para-upakara, doing welfare activities to others, that is meant for India. But the Indian should first of all make his life perfect. Bharata-bhūmite haila manusya-janma yara, janma sarthaka kari' . First of all the Indians are requested to make his life perfect, because how to make life perfect, the process and everything is in India, because here there is varnasrama-dharma, the division of the human society: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sūdra, and asrama. Now these things are rejected by the Indians, but this is the most scientific method for making life perfect. This is the most scientific method. This was the answer of Ramananda Raya when he was questioned by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "What is the aim of perfection of life, and how to accomplish it?" This is the question was given by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So the answer was, immediately,
(More...) "The aim of human life, the goal of human life, is to satisfy the Supreme Lord, Visnu." Visnur aradhyate. Na te viduḥ svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. These rascals, they do not know that human life is meant for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Kuntidevi therefore requested Krsna, sneha-pasam imam chindhi. We are, I mean to say, bounded here by the material energy in so-called sneha-pasa: society, friendship and love. People do not want to leave this material world. Even at the time of death... I have seen so many person. That is natural. The old man is dying, and he is thinking that "So many of my business remained unfinished." So he calls his dear son, "My dear son, if, if you... You take charge of the family, and so many things I could not finish, you do it." You see? He does not know where he is going. I have seen in Allahabad one big man, he was dying at the age of fifty-four. He was of my age. And he was requesting the physician, "My dear doctor, can you not give me four years more to live so that I could finish my business?" This so much attraction, so much attraction. They sometimes cry, that "What will happen to my this boy, that children, that..."
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