If society is guided by political diplomacy, with one nation maneuvering against another, it will certainly sink like a stone boat. Political maneuvering and diplomacy will not save human society.
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July30, 2007]Playing One Side Against the Other: stone boats sink
Ablogistan July 31, 2007
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Funding Both Sides of the War
What am I talking about? A recent report reveals that Saudi Arabia has been trying to hinder the Maliki government by supplying funding and volunteers to join the Sunni insurgency. Half the foreign fighters that enter Iraq each month are estimated to come from Saudi Arabia. Just last week the Bush administration expressed frustration over the Saudi's involvement. Yet only a few days, the administration promised $20 billion in high-tech weapons sales to Saudi Arabia over the next 10 years.
Why sell weapons to a country funding an insurgency that is taking American lives and undermining the mission in Iraq? To isolate and put pressure on Iran, says Condoleezza Rice. go to story
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In danger of sinking
excerpt from purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.7.14
We, the conditioned souls, have fallen in the ocean of nescience, but the human body fortunately provides us a good opportunity to cross the ocean because the human body is like a very good boat. When directed by a spiritual master acting as the captain, the boat can very easily cross the ocean. Furthermore, the boat is helped across by favorable winds, which are the instructions of Vedic knowledge. If one does not take advantage of all these facilities to cross the ocean of nescience, he is certainly committing suicide.
One who boards a boat made of stone is doomed. To be elevated to the stage of perfection, humanity must first give up false leaders who present boats of stone. All of human society is in such a dangerous position that to be rescued it must abide by the standard instructions of the Vedas. The cream of these instructions appears in the form of Bhagavad-gita. One should not take shelter of any other instructions, for Bhagavad-gita gives direct instructions on how to fulfill the aim of human life. Lord Sri Krishna therefore says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam sharanam vraja: [Bg. 18.66] "Give up all other processes of religion and simply surrender to Me." Even if one does not accept Lord Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His instructions are so exalted and beneficial for humanity that if one follows His instructions one will be saved. Otherwise one will be cheated by unauthorized meditation and gymnastic methods of yoga. Thus one will board a boat of stone. which will sink and drown all its passengers.
Unfortunately, although the American people are extremely eager to get out of materialistic chaos, they are sometimes found to patronize the makers of stone boats. That will not help them. They must take the proper boat offered by Krishna in the form of the Krishna consciousness movement. Then they will be easily saved. In this regard Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura comments: ashmamayah plavo yesham te yatha majjantam plavam anumajjanti tatheti raja-nity-upadeshtrishu sva-sabhyeshu kopo vyañjitah. If society is guided by political diplomacy, with one nation maneuvering against another, it will certainly sink like a stone boat. Political maneuvering and diplomacy will not save human society. People must take to Krishna consciousness to understand the aim of life, to understand God. and to fulfill the human mission.