So suppose today is 6th December. Now seven o'clock, morning, seven o'clock, 6th December, passed. Can you bring it again by paying one crores of gold coins?
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January 15, 2008]Gold price skyrocketing, but it's time we can't afford
Buying time
The Daily Reckoning Jan 14, 2008
- BILL BONNER and the Daily Reckoning Crew
Trouble is Here - And He's Brought Friends
"Silver is selling at over $16 per ounce, with $20 not that far away. So silver and gold are moving quite a bit in tandem. Up. Up. Up. Why? Because - not to put too fine a point on it - the U.S. Federal Reserve is signaling that its long-term goal is to put the dollar into the tank. Politically, the Fed needs to satisfy a bunch of spendaholic politicians who cannot prioritize spending or say no to special interests. And the Fed wants to bail out some big banks and a few hundred thousand 'favored' members of a politicized class - people with economic and political clout. So the Fed is pursuing policies that will directly wreck the savings and work of hundreds of millions of people, both U.S. citizens and foreign dollar holders.
"For decades, people have put their trust in the dollar as a store of wealth. In effect, people put those dollars in trust. Remember when a local merchant would put the first dollar he ever earned in a frame above the counter? People admired the dollar. People trusted the dollar for the long run. The work you performed today - for which you were paid - would come back to you years down the line when you pulled those dollars out of savings. People were going to save those dollars and invest them later or use them to pay tuition so the kids could go to college - if not retire on those dollars.
"Not any more. Now investors everywhere are watching the Fed and bailing out of dollars into precious metals. Just the other day, the Financial Times referred to gold as the new global currency. go to story
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Earning money is not your first business
excerpt from lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.6.4, Vrindaban, December 5, 1975
PRABHUPADA: So activities... Rupa Gosvami has forbidden,
atyaharah prayasash cha
prajalpo niyamagrahah
laulyam jana-sangash cha
shadbhih bhaktir pranashyati
[Nectar of Instruction 2]
There are six kind of activities which will increase your transcendental importance of life, and there are six kinds of activities which will destroy your whatever little devotion you have got. These, in the Upadeshamrita you will find, how you can increase and how you can finish. So about finishing, if you are actually advancing in spiritual life, if that is your aim, then these six things should be avoided. The first thing is atyahara, eating too much than necessity, or collecting more than you require. For maintenance of your body you have to secure some monetary benefit—but not more than what you require. People are not satisfied. At the present moment everyone is trying to get more and more and more and more and more. There is no satiation. This kind of endeavor is forbidden. It will not help you. But people are mad after money. If he is getting, say, five hundred rupees, he says, "No, why five hundred? Five thousand." And if he gets five thousand, then he says, "Why five thousand? Five lakhs." And if he gets five lakhs, then he says, "Why five lakhs? Five crores." This is there. The whole world is going on. They are never satisfied. You go to any rich man: "Sir, you have now enough money. Please come to our meeting in the morning, seven-thirty." "No, I have no time." He's earning money.
So everyone thinks, "To earn money is my first business. That is... And to work for it, that is my first business." But that is forbidden. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam this is forbidden. Why forbidden? Because you cannot get more than what you are destined to get. That is not possible. If by your karma, karma-phala, by result of your karma, if you are to get some happiness, you will get that much, not more than that. So what is the use of endeavoring? Therefore it is said, tat-prayaso na kartavyo yata ayur-vyayah param. Simply waste your time. Suppose you are doing some business and earning money. And if somebody says that "You cannot get more than five hundred rupees per month," then why you'll work so hard? But because they have no information—they do not take consultation from the right person—therefore they are trying uselessly. The human life was meant for understanding Krishna. Instead of using the energy for understanding Krishna, they are spoiling the energy unnecessarily to earn money. This is the modern civilization. The whole Western world, how they are spoiling their life unnecessarily. We should be satisfied in the economic position as we are put into.
So in another place Narada Muni says,
tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido
na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adah
tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah sukham
kalena sarvatra gabhira-ramhasah
[SB 1.5.18]
Your material gain, happiness or distress, you are destined to get. You'll get it. Nobody tries to get distress. If you ask anybody that "Why you are working so hard?" nobody says that "I am working so hard, I want distress." Nobody will say. Everyone will say, "I'll be happy. I'll get happiness. Therefore I am working hard." "No, this is distress." "Yes, this is distress, but I'll get happiness after this." This is called maya [illusion]. He is undergoing distress, but he is thinking, "I'll get happiness." This is called maya. So there is no use. This is shastric injunction. You have to see your future through the shastra. So don't waste your time in that way.
This duration of life, human life—Prahlada Maharaja has begun with the words durlabham manusham janma—this life is very, very important, and after many, many births you have got it. So you should always remember that every moment of this life is so important. How much it is important, that is explained by Chanakya Pandit. Anyone can understand. He is not a, I mean, Krishna conscious person but moralist. He was prime minister. He says, ayushah kshana eko 'pi na labhyah svarna-kotibhih. Your duration of life... You have got a certain years' duration of life. You cannot live more than that. If you have got your duration of life for fifty years, you can live up to fifty years, not hundred years. These are all destined. It is useless. So therefore it is very important. In the Bhagavata, in another place it is said, turnam yateta anumritya pateta yavat nihshreyasaya. The same thing repeatedly. Here Prahlada Maharaja also says that durlabham manusham janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam. First of all you have to consider that we have got this human form of life after many, many hundreds and thousands, millions, 8,400,000 different forms. Durlabham. So therefore it is, although temporary... Everyone knows that "I'll not live forever." But even though it is temporary, adhruvam, not eternal, it is arthadam. It is said, arthadam. Whatever little life you have got, you can attain perfection. This is the advantage. You can attain perfection.
How perfection? Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita,
sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam sharanam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
mokshayishyami ma shuchah [Bg. 18.66]
This is perfection. Krishna says that "You give up all these nonsense engagement. Simply surrender unto Me, and I shall give you relief." Our continuation of material life means full of sinful activities. We act some way, and we get a similar body. And again the life continues and again we get another body, another body, another body. But in the human form of body, you can get the highest perfection, Krishna consciousness, and that will stop your continuation of this material life.
mamaivamsho jiva-bhutah
jiva-loke sanatanah
manah-shashthanindriyani
prakriti-sthani karshati
[Bg. 15.7: "The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind."]
By mental concoction and sense gratification he is continuing this material existence.
So every man, the same instruction is there, that this human form of life is only meant for Krishna consciousness. But the rascals, they will not hear. Therefore Narottama dasa Thakur sings, hari hari biphale janama gonainu: "My Lord Hari, I have simply wasted my time." Actually, if one is not Krishna conscious, he is simply wasting his valuable time. Hari hari biphale janama gonainu. How? Manushya-janama paiya radha-krishna na bhajiya janiya shuniya bisha khainu. The same thing as Prahlada Maharaja says. This is called mahajana. The one mahajana is speaking something, another mahajana will say something else—that is not mahajana. Mahajana means evam parampara praptam [Bg. 4.2]. What Prahlada Maharaja said millions of years ago, Narottama dasa Thakura is saying the same thing. Prahlada Maharaja said, durlabham manusham janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam, and the same thing is being repeated by Narottama dasa thakura: hari hari biphale janama gonainu. So, why should we waste our time? Just see practically. We are asking people that "Don't waste your time. We are opening hundreds of centers. You come with us. Little prasadam you require. We shall supply. You chant Hare Krishna." "No. No. I shall do the same thing, trying for this, trying for that, trying for something else, something else. No." Nobody is satisfied that "My life is meant for Krishna consciousness. Here is a chance to develop Krishna consciousness. Let me live here peacefully and let me eat the prasadam and chant Hare Krishna." You'll will find no customer. This is maya.
daivi hy esha gunamayi
mama maya duratyaya
mam eva ye prapadyante
mayam etam taranti te
[Bg. 7.14: "This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it."]
It is very, very difficult. But still, Vaishnava, he will advise. A moralist who knows shastra, he will also advise, just like Chanakya Pandit. I was saying, Chanakya Pandit said, ayushah kshana eko 'pi na labhyah svarna-kotibhih. Formerly there was exchange for... Means of exchange was coins, gold coin. Even in India, even in Muhammadan rule, there was gold. Not this paper, cheating: "I give you money, one thousand rupees, some paper. That's all." Where is money? But people are satisfied. "Yes, I have got one thousand rupees. It is written there. That's all." But actually money is the gold, gold exchange. So therefore Chanakya Pandit said... This means at that time there was gold coin exchange. Even in our childhood we have seen in India there was coins, gold coins, silver coins, everywhere, all over the world. In England there was pound, gold coin. So Chanakya Pandit said, svarna-kotibhih. Svarna means gold coins, and koti means ten millions. So suppose today is 6th December. Now seven o'clock, morning, seven o'clock, 6th December, passed. Can you bring it again by paying one crores of gold coins? Hm? That "Let me get back again seven o'clock, 6th December, 1975, again"? No. It is gone forever. So just see the value that you cannot get back even a moment of your life by paying millions and millions of dollars. How time is valuable, just calculate. Therefore Chanakya Pandit, sa chet nirarthakam nitah ka no hanis tato 'dhika. If you waste your time, such valuable time, for nothing, just imagine how much loser you are. But we do not know. Therefore Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said, kirtaniyah sada harih: [Chaitanya-charitamrita Adi-lila 17.31] "Your life is meant for chanting the holy names: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. Therefore you should simply chant always, consistently." This is the advice. This is properly using the moments of time. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said that tat-prayasa. If you foolishly endeavor for making some economic development, then what is the gain? Ayur-vyayah param. You have got this valuable life. Every moment is so valuable. That means you are wasting your valuable life by such endeavor to improve your economic condition. It is not possible. Tad ayatnatah. If you get distress without endeavoring for it, you will get happiness without endeavoring for it, because that is destined. You cannot get more or less. You have to... You'll get it.
Therefore, whatever little life we have got, instead of wasting for improving economic condition, let us use it for advancing in Krishna consciousness. That is life. Who understands this philosophy, this rascal world? Nobody understands this philosophy, but this is real philosophy: not to waste your valuable time for improving your economic condition. That is not possible. You have to utilize every moment to see how we are improving Krishna consciousness.