US - India cooperation

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Prabhupada: You convince the authorities of America that my logic,

andha-pangor nyaya, lame and blind logic. America is blind by money.

Dhana-madandha, when one gets too much money he becomes blind.

Dhana-durmadandha. Tasmad bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadandha. To get too much

riches means he becomes fool and blind. He doesn't care. So this blindness

of America... And we Indians, we have no money, but we have got culture.

Combine together, then things will be very nicely done for the good of the

whole world. Simply money is not the end; there must be culture. Take that

culture, Vedic culture, and use it by American money, then the whole world

will be paradise, Vaikuntha. In India one paper, Sunday, they have published

a nice article about us: "Krsna Consciousness Catches On."

Hari-sauri: It begins by saying that the Krsna consciousness movement has

had an amazing cultural impact on India in the last two years.

 

Morning Walk -- July 17, 1976, New York.

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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

 

> Prabhupada: You convince the authorities of America that my logic,

> andha-pangor nyaya, lame and blind logic. America is blind by money.

> Dhana-madandha, when one gets too much money he becomes blind.

> Dhana-durmadandha. Tasmad bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadandha. To get too much

> riches means he becomes fool and blind. He doesn't care. So this blindness

> of America... And we Indians, we have no money, but we have got culture.

> Combine together, then things will be very nicely done for the good of the

> whole world. Simply money is not the end; there must be culture. Take that

> culture, Vedic culture, and use it by American money, then the whole world

> will be paradise, Vaikuntha. In India one paper, Sunday, they have published

> a nice article about us: "Krsna Consciousness Catches On."

> Hari-sauri: It begins by saying that the Krsna consciousness movement has

> had an amazing cultural impact on India in the last two years.

> Morning Walk -- July 17, 1976, New York.

 

Unfortunately, it works both ways; now the Indians have caught on to the

blindness, and in their obsession with Western money, have thrown almost all of

their culture into the sea.

 

It takes only one generation of neglect to erase thousands of years of

cumulative wisdom, cultural refinement, and spiritual attainment.

 

Just visit Bangalore to witness this, or see:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4646948.stm

 

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