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Imported quote 14964 It is significant in this verse that the government and the natural guardian, the father, should educate subordinates and raise them to Krsna consciousness. Devoid of Krsna consciousness, every living being suffers in this cycle of birth and death perpetually. To relieve them from this bondage and enable them to become blissful and happy, bhakti-yoga should be taught. A foolish civilization neglects to teach people how to rise to the platform of bhakti-yoga. Without Krsna consciousness, a person is no better than a hog or dog. The instructions of Rsabhadeva are very essential at the present moment. People are being educated and trained to work very hard for sense gratification, and there is no sublime aim in life. A man travels to earn his livelihood, leaving home early in the morning, catching a local train and being packed in a compartment. He has to stand for an hour or two in order to reach his place of business. Then again he takes a bus to get to the office. At the office he works hard from nine to five; then he takes two or three hours to return home. After eating, he has sex and goes to sleep. For all this hardship, his only happiness is a little sex. Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham. Rsabhadeva clearly states that human life is not meant for this kind of existence, which is enjoyed even by dogs and hogs. Indeed, dogs and hogs do not have to work so hard for sex. A human being should try to live in a different way and should not try to imitate dogs and hogs. The alternative is mentioned. Human life is meant for tapasya, austerity and penance. By tapasya, one can get out of the material clutches. When one is situated in Krsna consciousness, devotional service, his happiness is guaranteed eternally. By taking to bhakti-yoga, devotional service, one's existence is purified. The living entity is seeking happiness life after life, but he can make a solution to all his problems simply by practicing bhakti-yoga. Then he immediately becomes eligible to return home, back to Godhead. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (4.9):
(More...) Imported quote 16280 This does not mean that all civic activities for the maintenance of the body and soul together should be stopped altogether. There is no question of stopping the activities as there is no question of wiping out the temperature altogether. We have already tried to explain the matter by our expression to make the best use of a bad bargain. Culture of spiritual knowledge has to be done with the help of this body and mind and therefore maintenance of the body and mind is required to reach our end. The normal temperature should be maintained at the point of 97/98 but it is not to be increased to the degree of 107 foolishly. The Great Sages and saint of India wanted to maintain the normal temperature by a balanced progress of material and spiritual knowledge. They never allowed to misuse the human intelligence for the matter of diseased sense gratification. Human activities diseased by a temperament of sense gratification have been regulated in the Vedic literatures under the name of Apavarga Bartma or to the way of salvation. They are called by the name (1) religiosities (2) economic development (3) sense gratification and (4) salvation. At the present moment the people have no interest either for religiosity or for salvation. They have only one aim of life sense gratification and in order to fulfill this end of life they have different plans of economic development.
(More...) Imported quote 18574 So Vedic culture, or the representative of Vedic culture, Maharaja..., King Rsabhadeva, He advised His sons, "My dear sons, this human life, human form of life, is not meant for working hard like the animal. This is not." Nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke kastan kaman arhate viḍ-bhujam ye [SB 5.5.1]. Kastan kaman. Kaman means we require some necessities of life, but civilization should not be made in such a way that one has to live at the cost of sacrificing everything. This is not human civilization. Kastan kaman. Everyone wants something. That is required. So long the body is there, we must have to eat, we must have to sleep, we require sense gratification and protection, or security. This is required. But the Vedic civilization was very simplified. Simplified. A class of ideal men, the brahmana-they are ideal-they are simply assimilating the Vedic knowledge and guiding others-ksatriya, vaisya, sūdra-how to live peacefully. The ksatriya, they are meant for giving protection to the people, security. And the vaisya is meant for producing food. And sūdra, because they cannot do anything independently, they must serve these three masters: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya. So this is very scientific.
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