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Arr CHI 1975-07-03 My Mission Is To Stop the Crimes --etc
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ANNOUNCER: The following is an
arrival address and conversation,
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 3rd of July
1975, in Chicago, Illinois.
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DEVOTEE: Your Divine Grace, this is
Royal Kennedy from NBC television.
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ROYAL KENNEDY: How do you do?
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DEVOTEE (1): She would like
to ask you some questions.
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I would like to know why
are you visiting Chicago?
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PRABHUPĀDA: Just now I have seen one
article in the Times, four five pages article,
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“Crime…,” and what is that?
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BRAHMĀNANDA: “Why
and How to Solve It.”
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“Why and How to Solve It.”
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It’s the cover story of Time.
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So if you are serious, you can take
our method and suggestions.
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Then you can stop this crime.
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- You have a way to stop the crime?
- Oh, yes, I have.
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Can you explain a little bit more?
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How do you do it?
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That we have to suggest.
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The social, political, educational,
cultural—everything has to be changed.
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So if you come, we can give you
in details how it can be done.
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Can you tell me how you feel
about this welcome that you got?
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Yes; of course, by God’s grace, wherever
I go they welcome me like that.
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Are you used to anything
a little bit more serene?
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Serene; of course, our whole
propaganda is serene.
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Yes.
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We are distributing
God consciousness.
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It is the most serene movement.
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People has to learn it very nicely.
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Thank you. [break]
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My message is to stop the
crimes of your country.
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This is my sum and substance.
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We have read the article in the
Times, “Crime and How to Stop It.”
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So if you take my advice,
that can be stopped. [break]
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- …opportunity to propagate.
- Yes.
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- Crimes and how to stop…
- Why and how to stop it.
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Why and how to.
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That is answered in Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement, actually. [break]
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…condition of the world, simply
full of criminals, that’s all.
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And our is… pāpī tāpī jata chilo hari-
nāme uddhārilo [Hari Hari Biphale]
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This is our movement.
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Crimes means pāpī, sinful.
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And this is the only remedy
for reclaiming the sinful.
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Simply by law if you want to suppress
them, it will not be successful.
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Deliver them.
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Then you also come, I mean
to say, come along with them.
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Not that these criminals only should
be delivered, and you will go on,
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continue with criminal
activities, slaughterhouse,
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and killing the child in the womb.
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You are criminal
yourself, the whole state.
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- So reception was very nice.
- Oh, yes.
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- So we are going to the temple?
- ŚRĪ GOVINDA: Yes, Śrīla
Prabhupāda. [splice]
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…śāstra says, pāpī tāpī jata chilo hari-
nāme uddhārilo. [Hari Hari Biphale]
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Simply by this chanting, all
these things can be stopped.
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There is no doubt about it.
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They are spending
so much money
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uselessly going to the moon planet
and this planet, and for stopping crime.
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The same amount may be spent
for distribution of prasāda,
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and chanting Hare
Kṛṣṇa in a mass scale.
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Everything [indistinct]
[will be all right].
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Mass scale.
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Simply organize nice prasādam
distribution and mass joining Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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Just see [the effect].
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There is proof of it just in Berkeley
where we have our Ratha-yātrā.
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The police say that this… Or
we have our parades there,
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and they are all peaceful,
whereas other groups,
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- they have parades, and they always…
- “Window-breaking.
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Window-breaking crowd.
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We are not like that.” [splice]
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- Let them have this O’Hare Kṛṣṇa.
- Yes, O’Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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Suggest the
establishment manager.
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- That’s the name of the airport.
- Huh?
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That’s the name of the airport.
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What is that?
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- He said the name of the airport is… O'Hare
- PRABHUPĀDA: Oh; O’Hare?
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- [indistinct] This is airport A’Hare?
- O'Hare?
- We, O'Hare.
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- Hare?
- O'Hare.
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- O’Hare.
- I think that is an Irish name.
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Who was he?
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Who was O’Hare?
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We chant O Hare. [splice]
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“Crime, Why and How to Solve It.”
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So we can solve this.
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Why not invite them to
hear us how we can solve?
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Arrange meetings in big, big circle.
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We shall give the solution.
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It is a good opportunity
for preaching.
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You have got Times paper?
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Yes, time magazine, it’s the
cover story this month.
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Not here.
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- In five or ten minutes.
- Yes, bring.
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We shall take this
opportunity to preach.
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“Crime, Why and What to Do?”
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We shall give all solution.
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We can arrange big, big meetings on this
point, “Crime, Why and What to Do?”
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A very suitable heading it is.
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harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā
[SB 5.18.12]
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Unless he’ll take to God
consciousness, all this rascaldom,
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so-called advancement of civilization,
all condemned, everything.
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All rascals.
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So why we will not,
will there be crime?
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There must be.
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This is the result of
modern civilization, crime.
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You cannot check it unless
you take to Kṛṣṇa cons…
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They are all violating
the laws of nature.
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Nature brings you from evolutionary
process to the human life,
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and if we misuse, then we suffer.
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This life is specially meant
for understanding God.
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athāto brahma jijṣāsā
[Vedānta-sūtra 1]
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This is the only business.
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jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā
na yaś ceha karmabhiḥ
[SB 1.2.10]
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jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā
[SB 1.2.10]
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- Find out this verse.
- NITĀI: First Canto, Second Chapter.
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We have given all solution.
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Now our business is how to
push it through these leaders,
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who are now thinking,
“Crime, Why and What…?”
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They are thinking.
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They must think.
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If they actually want welfare of
the country, they must think.
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And here is the medicine; yes?
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kāmasya nendriya-prītir
lābho jīveta yāvatā
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jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā
nārtho yaś ceha karmabhiḥ
[SB 1.2.10]
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“Life’s desires should never be
aimed at gratifying the senses.
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One should desire to live
only because human life
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enables one to inquire
about the Absolute Truth.
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This should be the
goal of all works.”
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kāmasya nendriya-prītiḥ
[SB 1.2.10]
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Purport?
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“The completely bewildered material
civilization is wrongly directed
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towards the fulfillment of
desires in sense gratification.”
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Simply wine, women, beach, and
sporting, jumping like monkeys. [splice]
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Read it.
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“In such civilization,
in all spheres of life,
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the ultimate end is
sense gratification.
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In politics, social service, altruism,
philanthropy and ultimately in religion,
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or even in salvation, the very
same tint of sense gratification,
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is ever-increasingly predominant.
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In the political field the leaders
of men fight with one another,
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to fulfill their personal
sense gratification.”
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In India, these are all foreseen.
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I have already discussed all this.
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Then?
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“The voters adore the so-called leaders
only when they promise sense gratification.
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As soon as the voters are dissatisfied
in their own sense gratification,
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they dethrone the leaders.
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The leaders almost always disappoint
the voters by not satisfying their senses.”
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Then the protest
meeting, procession.
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But nobody will be satisfied,
able to satisfy them,
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because they do not know, how to
keep the mass of people satisfied.
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They do not know.
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lokasya ajānataḥ vidvān
cakre sātvata-saṁhitām
[SB 1.7.6]
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These rascals, they do not know.
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All set of rascals, the so-
called philosophers, scientists.
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I have always said they are rascals.
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Now they are coming,
“What to do?”
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They will face so many problems,
“What to do?”… This is the beginning.
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The whole world will be in chaos if they
do not take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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So many “What to do?” will come.
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Just tell them, “And
here is the remedy.”
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Now it is the time for preaching.
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They are thinking.
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They were sleeping.
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Now they are thinking,
“What to do?”
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They were blindly following
sense gratification.
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Now it has come to the
stage, “What to do?”
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“What to do?”… This is athāto
brahma jijṣāsā: [Vedānta-sūtra 1]
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“Now enquire about Brahman.”
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This is the statement.
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Hm, then?
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“The same is applicable
in all other fields;
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no one is serious about
the problems of life.
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Even those who are on the path of
salvation desire to become one with the
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Absolute Truth and desire to commit
spiritual suicide for sense gratification.”
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That is also another sense gratification,
to become one with the Supreme.
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“But the Bhāgavatam says that one
should not live for sense gratification.
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One should satisfy the senses only insofar
as it is required for self-preservation…”
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We don’t say that
“Stop altogether.”
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No.
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We say, “No illicit sex.”
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We don’t say, “No sex.”
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So we should indulge
in sense gratification,
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as far as it is required for the
maintenance of the body,
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and balance time, we shall save for
brahma-jijñāsā; this is civilization.
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Otherwise it is animal civilization.
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So that has come now.
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So the American people, the leaders,
they are now thinking, “What to do?”
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And call big, big men,
and give our program,
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“Here is to do; come here to do.”
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This is opportunity.
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Then?
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“Because the body
is made of senses,
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which also require a certain
amount of satisfaction,
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there are regulative directions
for satisfaction of such senses,
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but the senses are not meant
for unrestricted enjoyment.
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- For example, marriage…”
- That is not enjoyment.
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Just like sex indulgence.
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If you indulge in more than
necessary, then you will be impotent.
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Nature will stop.
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You know impotency?
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That will be there.
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Impotency; this homosex is
also another sign of impotency.
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They do not feel sex
impulse to woman.
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They feel sex impulse in man.
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That means he is impotent.
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It is impotency.
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So things are coming
so rubbish now.
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This is the time for preaching
our program, standard.
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Then?
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“For example, marriage,
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or the combination of a man with
a woman, is necessary for progeny,
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but it is not meant
for sense enjoyment.”
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Now this progeny is bother.
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It is sense enjoyment, homosex.
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Progeny, they don’t want;
they’re not interested.
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Only sense gratification.
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This is another sign of impotency.
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When after enjoying so many
women, they become impotent,
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then they artificially create
another sex impulse in homosex.
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This is the psychology.
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So people are degraded so much.
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Especially in the… Everywhere, not
specially this or that; everywhere.
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This is Kali-yuga.
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But thoughtful leaders, they
are thinking, “What to do?”
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That’s very good sign; and take
advantage and give them program,
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exactly to the direction
of Bhagavad-gītā.
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Then the world will be saved.
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Otherwise it is doomed.
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It is a fact.
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This is the opportunity
for preaching.
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You can take that
paper and heading.
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There are so many headings.
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Each heading reply.
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We are the only persons who can
give solution; there is no other,
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group or any man in
the world; we are only.
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So let them take advantage
of our knowledge,
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and apply in the society to the…
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That’s all right.
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Now all the sannyāsīs have got
the good opportunity to preach.
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Hmm.
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