[Posted
June 14, 2010]
What does it mean June 10, 2010
- SORCHA FAAL
No turning back the clock. The doomsday prophets have gone hoarse screaming warnings about the economic, political and social fallout we can expect, even going so far as to predict that it will lead to nuclear war... but the actual scenario is far worse: Kali Yuga is accelerating, and there's nothing you and I can do to stop it. Nuclear war, global warming, drought and famine - maybe you can stock up now and hide away in your underground bunker for a while, but how can you expect to outlast the effects of Kali Yuga, which lasts 432,000 years and of which only 5,000 have passed? "I'll be long gone before then," most of us think, but many of us will be coming back - and the landscape is going to get worse, a lot worse. The real solution is to ensure that we don't have to take birth again in this material world.
PRABHUPADA: Scientific brain means there are so many problems, they are trying to solve it. That requires brain. But because they are poor scientists, they do not know how to make a solution of the ultimate problem. They are making tiny problems, that's all. There is power shortage, all right, let us invent some substitute of petroleum. Brain is being taxed. Again it is finished, again another. Punah punash charvita-charvananam [Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.30]. But they are so dull brain, they do not raise the question that we are making solution of one problem, another problem is ready. That brain they have not. So how long we shall go on solving the problems, another problem, another problem? Daivi hy esha gunamayi mama maya duratyaya [Bhagavad-gita 7.14]. He does not know that nature will not allow me to live peacefully. So we bring problems after problems. That is material life. Duhkhalayam ashashvatam [Bg. 8.15]. Daivi hy esha gunamayi. Everything is there. You discuss only Bhagavad-gita, you'll get so many subject matters to think and write. This is brain. We are solving one problem, another problem is there. Why this is happening? If there is any situation without any problem? That is brain. This world is a problem, and we want solution of the problem but we do not know how to solve it. Is it not? Do the scientists know?
SVARUP DAMODAR: They are trying.
PRABHUPADA: Not a single problem they have solved. Can you cite that? This big problem they have solved?
RUPANUGA: In fact you have said that they are creating a new problem each time.
PRABHUPADA: That is the nature. You cannot solve the problem. You will create problem. If you don't live natural life, then you will create problem. Just like the other creatures, other than human beings, they have no problems, because they are living naturally. So our human beings should also live natural life. Then his only problem is birth, death, old age, and disease. That he will be able to solve. That is the difference. The birds and beasts, they are living natural life, but they have no capacity to solve the problems. They are living a natural life. But the human being has the capacity to solve the problems. Real problem is birth, death, old age and disease. But they do not touch the real problem. Hmm? They avoid it because they cannot solve it.