sports and gambling

[Guest guest]

> I like to play basketball very much. Is playing

> basketball one form of gambling? Should i give it up completely?

 

 

In this age, men are victims not only of different political creeds and

parties, but also of many different types of sense-gratificatory diversions,

such as cinemas, sports, gambling,

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.1.10

 

 

 

There is always someone who wants to gamble at nightclubs or enjoy so-called

sports. All these propensities are already within the hearts of the living

entities, but some living entities stop to enjoy these abominable activities

and consequently fall down to a degraded platform.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 4.29.4

 

 

 

If you indulge in intoxication, if you indulge in meat-eating, and if you

indulge in gambling and sporting—all nonsense—you cannot at the same time

become a yogi.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => TYS 4: The Goal of Yoga

 

 

 

And no gambling or unnecessary sporting. People are wasting time. So many

sportings they have invented-sporting balls, this ball, that ball. You see?

Human life is very short. We do not know when we shall die. Before that, we

must prepare ourself for the next life.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Initiation Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 19, 1968

 

 

 

And the fourth restriction is that you cannot take part in gambling or some

unnecessary sporting because you have to utilize your time. Your time is

very short. If you miss this opportunity of human form of life... Because we

do not know when death is coming. It is not that because I am old, I am

nearing death, and you are young, you are not nearing death. Who knows that

you may die before me? So there is no certainty. So the principle is that

because this human form of life is so important to perfect oneself in Krsna

consciousness, he should not waste even a minute. You see? So therefore we

don't allow unnecessary sporting. You see? This is simply waste of time.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco

 

 

 

>From the very beginning, they are trained to refrain from the following four

principles of degradation: 1) Sex life outside of marriage, 2) Meat eating,

or eating of any animal food, 3) All forms of intoxication, 4) Gambling and

idle sports.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Pope Paul VI — Montreal 3 August, 1968

 

 

 

MY INITIATED STUDENTS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO INDULGE in the following

principles of degradation: (1) All forms of intoxication, including coffee,

tea, cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, etc. (2) The eating of animal foods, such

as meat, fish, and eggs. Rather, their diet consists of Prasadam, especially

offered foodstuffs (vegetarian), (3) Unmarried sex indulgence, (4) Gambling,

or idle sports of any sort.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Selective Service System (for Tosana Krsna)

— Hawaii 20 March, 1969