So here description of cow-killing is already done. Now in this age, Kali, these things will be lacking. First thing is that no protection for woman. Woman requires protection by the father, by the husband and by the elderly children. But that is now finished. Practically no protection. They are, under the name of so-called freedom, loitering in the street. It is a very abominable condition of life. Now these things are very prominent in the Western countries especially. In India they are still dragging the Vedic culture. So woman are given protection. The father gives protection to the woman, child, and up to sixteen years, utmost. Then she must be married. The father's duty will be finished when the daughter is given to a suitable boy to take charge. That is marriage system. Marriage system is that it is necessary, necessary for social equilibrium. And it is the duty of the father to get the daughter married to a suitable boy. And when she is married, then the father's duty is finished. Unless she is married, the father's duty is not finished. This is Vedic culture. It is called kanya-daya. Kanya means daughter, and daya means obligation. Kanya-daya.

There are so many debts. Putra-rna, pitr-rna, deva-rna, bhutapta.

So there are so many debts. First to the demigods, then to the rsis, saintly persons. Because we get knowledge, Vedic knowledge from the rsi, we must be debtor. Guru-rna. Debtor to the spiritual master, to the sages, to the saintly persons, because we are getting knowledge from them. Therefore the Vyasa-puja is there. Once in a year the disciples are worshiping the spiritual master and trying to repay what he has received from the spiritual master. Devarsi-bhuta. Similarly, in our ordinary dealings also, you are my friend, I am your friend, you are getting some help from me, I am getting some from you. So we are debtors, obligation. Devarsi-bhuta, apta. Apta means relatives or family. We are indebted to the father, mother, elderly family members. In this way we are implicated with so many debts. Devarsi-bhutapta-nrnam pitrnam [SB 11.5.41].

So you can liquidate the debts simply... It is practically impossible. Therefore, if you take shelter of Mukunda, saranam saranyam, the worthy of taking shelter... If you take shelter of anyone else, he cannot give you protection. Krsna says, aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami. If you cannot liquidate your debts, you become sinful. But if you surrender to Krsna, Krsna says,

But so far the debts of the daughter, it is not debt, it is called daya, kanya-daya. Debt you can take insolvency, but daya means it is so obligatory, there is no such question that you can get relief from it. It must be... Therefore the word is used, kanya-daya. Still in India, the process is as soon as the girl is grown up the father is very anxious to find out a suitable boy and hand her over. Then... So that protection will be finished. It is already finished, at least in the western countries. There is no obligation of the father how to get the daughter married. Therefore the question is, "Whether you are lamenting that in this age of Kali these things will happen: cow slaughter, no obligation for the daughter..." And balan, children. They are also not taken care of. Not only that, they are taken care of, but now child or baby is being killed. This is Kali-yuga. This is conclusion(?)

And how one can be happy? So many sinful activities are going on. How they expect to become happy? It is not possible. Therefore it is being asked that "Whether you are thinking of all these things and therefore you are unhappy?" Sober man becomes unhappy. Para-duhkha... Especially Vaisnava. A Vaisnava has no problem for himself, but he has many problems for others. Because a Vaisnava... That is Vaisnava, unhappy by seeing others unhappy. That is Vaisnava. That is a first-class Vaisnava, para-duhkha-duhkhi. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu. By His practical example... He was a very learned scholar, many students, very respectable. He was so respectable in Navadvipa that in one night He collected a hundred thousand of people to challenge against the Kazi's judgment, civil disobedience. Kazi acted against sankirtana, so Caitanya Mahaprabhu challenged, "Now, tonight, we shall perform sankirtana with 100,000 of people." And 100,000 of people gathered together and chanting and went to the house of Kazi.

So the example is... He was at that time hardly twenty years old, but how much influence He had that simply by His order 100,000 people collected and chanted Hare Krsna mantra and challenged the Kazi, that "You are forbidding. We shall continue. Do whatever you like." So this is His popularity. And Laksmi-devi, the, directly the goddess of fortune, wife, most beautiful young wife. And seventy-years-old mother. So He has got obligation. But still, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Vaisnava, para-duhkha-duhkhi... That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Tyaktva su-dustyaja-surepsita-rajya-laksmim dharmistha arya-vacasa yad agad aranyam [SB 11.5.34]. He had no business to take sannyasa at very young age, only twenty-four years old, such nice family, good wife, mother. In a family where there is good mother and good wife, that is happy family. And one who has no good mother and good wife, then it is hell. This is Vedic culture. So Canakya Pandita said, mata yasya grhe nasti. If somebody has no mother at home, bharya capriya-vadini, and the wife is very harsh, dealing with the husband not very properly, aranyam tena gantavyam, he immediately give up that house and go to the forest. This is Canakya Pandita. That what is the use of such nonsense house?

So it is only Krsna consciousness movement trying to bring back Vedic culture so that people may be very happy. It is not a business; it is not a religious sentiment. It is a program to make everyone happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. This is Vedic culture. Not that "I exploit you, you exploit me, I cut your throat, you cut my throat." This is not human society. And this has begun already. Because you cut throat of the animalsyou are very expert, cutting throatnow you will cut throat each other. This is the... So a sober man, thinking all this downfall of the human civilization, he becomes very unhappy. He becomes, very unhappy. Oh. This human civilization, human being, human form of life, was given by God or the nature for cultivating Krsna consciousness, spiritual. That is not possible in the lower form of life, animals, the cats and dogs. And this is an opportunity given by nature's law. Now we get this body. Now you understand your position, what you are, to understand that you are not this body. So long in the lower grade of life you were under the impression that you are a body, the cats and dogs. They do not know that the body and soul is different. But it is the human form of life to understand that "I am not this body."

That education begins in the Bhagavad-gita in the beginning: dehino 'smin yatha dehe [Bg. 2.13]. Dehi means the possessor of the deha is within the body, not the body is the person. But no education. Throughout the whole scientific world, university education, there is no concern that "I am not this body; I am soul." Such a foolish, rascal civilization is going on in the name of advancement. No protection for woman, no protection of children, no respect for brahminical culture. So it is the animal civilization. Polished animal, that's all. Otherwise it is not civili... That is Vedic culture. Therefore...

And another: brahma-kule kukarmani, kukarmani. Ku means bad, and karma means work. So they are very much proud. Here, you have no such thing here because there is no question of brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra. Everyone is the same. So, but India still, there are four classes of menbrahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra. Here it is in Kali-yuga. Therefore kukarmany abrahmanye raja-kule kulagryan. Brahmana and ksatriya... Brahmana means the persons learned, very intelligent, the Vedic culture, knowledge in Vedas. Samo damas titiksa arjavam. These are the brahminical qualification. Control the senses, control the mind, very clean. Samo damas titiksa, tolerant, arjava, simplicity. These are the brahminical qual... Then jnanam, full knowledge. Not that I am talking of becoming a brahmana, but I have no knowledge. That is not brahmana, allowed. A brahmana must be very much learned. Brahmana's another title is pandita. Pandita means very learned, panditaji. Where is our pandita? He is not here?

So be careful that this material world is itself dangerous. Especially in this age of Kali, it is dangerous. It is stated in the sastra, padam padam yad vipadam [SB 10.14.58], every step there is danger. This is the position. Maya is so strong that you should always expect simply danger. But if you become Krsna conscious, you can overcome these dangers... Padam padam yad vipadam na tesam. It is not... This dangerous position is not for them. Who? Samasrita ye pada-pallava-plavam, one who has taken shelter of the lotus feet. It is a great ocean, just like the Pacific Ocean. It is just like a great ocean, big ocean of ignorance. As in the ocean, if you go, even on a boat, it is always dangerous, similarly, we are in the ocean of material civilization. There is always danger. But if you take shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna, param padam, then you overcome the danger and you go back to home, back to Godhead.

Thank you very much. (end)