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Therefore they are accusing us of frauding, cheating, but they do not understand. Even if we take some money from others by so-called fraud or cheat, but it goes to Krsna... Just like Gurukrpa Maharaja. If you say if he's taking by this way or that way, but what he is doing? He is not smoking with that money. He is not drinking. He is sending to Krsna. Therefore he is giving the best service. So people may say, "Nonsense people. They're doing this, doing that." But he is giving the best service to Krsna because he is not accepting a farthing out of this. And these so-called worldly, honest men, they may be very honest, moral, but they are taking everything for their sense gratification. They are dishonest. They are the greatest fraud. Krsna's money they are taking for their own satisfaction. The greatest fraud. Stena eva sa ucyate. What is that? Ye pacanty atma-karanat. Bhunjate te agham papaḥ [Bg 3.13]. Stena eva sa ucyate [Bg 3.12]. What is that? Everyone is thief. Everyone is taking Krsna's money for his sense gratification, and they are advertising they are very moral. What is that?    (More...)

Nitai: "In charge of the various necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajna, sacrifice, supply all necessities to man. But one who enjoys these gifts without offering them to the demigods in return is certainly a thief."    (More...)

Prabhupada: So anyone who is simply exploiting the resources of nature, the so-called industrialist, others, they are taking all goods from Krsna. Now, suppose you are making some machine. In making machine, you want the iron. But have you produced the iron? Wherefrom you have got the iron?    (More...)

Prabhupada: From the mine. So who has created mine? Your father has created this mine, that you are taking this iron? That means you are thief. You are thief. The iron is not your property. The iron is there already. If it is already there, you must conclude it is somebody's property. So you are taking it away without asking the proprietor. Then are you not thief? What is the meaning of stealing? If you take something without asking the proprietor, that is stealing. So the iron is there; you are taking from the mine, iron. You may convert into various things. That is another thing. But the original iron, to whom it belongs? Krsna declares in the Bhagavad-gita, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg 5.29]: "I am the proprietor." So He is the proprietor. Sarva-loka, all planets. So in this planet, when you find this iron, then whose property it is? When you find it, you must know it belongs to somebody. And who is that person? Without asking that person, without taking permission of that person, if you take away, are you not thief?    (More...)

The so-called civilization, they are all set of thieves, rogues. And they are formulating rules and regulation for others' fraud, those who are devotees. They are themselves fraud. Everything belongs... Suppose you have got this iron, stealing from the mine Krsna's property. Then if by some way or other I take your iron and give it back to Krsna, so I am fraud or you are fraud? You do not possess anything. But you are claiming that you are proprietor of this thing, that thing, which you have taken by stealing. And if your stolen property, I take it from you and return it to Krsna, then who is fraud? You are fraud or I am fraud? Who is fraud? But they have made their own laws. They will steal, they will plunder, and still, they are honest gentlemen.    (More...)

Just like the income tax department. They will take away all your hard-earned money, and they will enjoy themselves, and they are government officer, that's all. And if you keep money, "Oh, you have kept property without knowledge of government. Take it away." This is going on. So in this Kali-yuga it will happen so. The some rogues and frauds, they will combine together and make a government and take others' property, and they will remain honest, and he is fraud. That's all. This is Kali-yuga. The combined company of frauds, they will remain honest, and those who are servant of Krsna, they are frauds. Ulta bujhali rama. Just the opposite. What can be done? This is the Kali-yuga.    (More...)

Anardhena nyaya-rahitam. In this Kali-yuga, if you have no money, then you will never get justice, because you have to bribe up to the high-court judge. That is going on. At least in India it is going on. You bribe, and you take favorable judgment. Is it not? Yes. And that is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Anardhena nyaya-rahitam. Everywhere you have to bribe. That means you require money. So unless you pay money, you will never get justice. This is Kali-yuga. Therefore a poor man cannot get justice. He cannot bribe. The other party will... If he has got money, he will bribe. He will get justice, and he will suffer.    (More...)

Just like Gandhi, he refused to take justice from the British court. That was one of the items. He said that "There is no justice. So we shall deny to take any judgment from the British Court." That was his, one of the items. He never... When he was prosecuted, he never defended. He said, "Why shall I defend? There is no justice here. Why shall I spend my money for defending? No, you can do whatever you like. You are in power." Gandhi did always like that. "Here is no justice, so why shall I plead for justice?" That was Gandhi's philosophy, noncooperation. Whenever he was arrested, he will simply stand. That's all. Of course, he was given a seat. Such a big man, the court would offer him a seat. But he will never plead yes or no. "No, whatever you like, you can do. I don't expect justice from you." That was Gandhi's... He'll never plead. And all his followers did that. Therefore they were all sent to jail. And by going to jail they got svaraja. And he declared, jail svaraja ke mandira hai: "If you want to get svaraja, independence, you must be prepared to go to jail."    (More...)

Therefore at the present moment, all the government men, their first qualification is whether he went to jail during this movement. Yes. The more one suffered imprisonment, he is given more exalted post. Not only jail; in the jail they were beaten very severely. Some of them were given poison. So many big, big leaders, they died just coming out of jail. They were given slow poison. C. R. Dasa, Jyotindra Mohan, Sen Gupta. And the Gandhi, therefore, he would not take any food from the jail. He would carry his one goat, and take the milk of the goat and some chapatis made, two chapatis and a little peanuts. That's all. He would not accept anything from the jail. Because he knew that "These men can give me poison." Actually, they gave so many people slow poison, and they died. Just after coming back from the jail they died.    (More...)

This is the world. It is going on. It is simply full of suffering. Simply we are after this phantasmagoria, that our running after something which is actually not fact; it is illusion. So this is the life in the material world. So this Krsna consciousness movement is to save the person from this illusory life of material existence. Let them come to Krsna and go back to home, back to Krsna. This is our movement-the greatest beneficial movement. We don't want to keep these people in ignorance. They are in illusion, ignorance. So our business is to enlighten him. Kota nidra jao maya-pisacira: "You are sleeping. Get up, take this opportunity and be Krsna conscious. Go back to home. Give up this nonsense place, duḥkhalayam asasvatam [Bg 8.15], full of miseries, cheating."    (More...)

Prabhupada: That is Vivekananda: daridra-narayana-seva. The answer is that if you do not prepare rasagulla for Krsna, then there will be no supply of rasagulla. So everything will be finished. Because bhunjate te tv agham papa ye pacanty atma-karanat [Bg 3.13]. Anyone who is preparing rasagulla for himself or expanded himself, so they simply become implicated with sinful activities. So if you are... Suppose if you prepare rasagulla, stealing from the shopkeeper sugar and..., then how long you will go on? One day you'll be captured. Stena eva sa ucyate [Bg 3.12]. What is that verse? Stena eva sa ucyate. [Transl. He is a thief who does not give to Bhagavan. Therefore yajna] Yajna-purusa. Real point is to satisfy. You cannot supply rasagulla, but if you supply rasagulla as prasadam, then the rasagulla-eater is benefited, you are benefited, and Krsna is pleased.    (More...)