suchandra Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 According Vedic teachings the human form of life is meant to get out of the cycle of repeated birth and death - transmigrating from one material body to another and go back home, back to Godhead. Bhagavad-gita warns us, watch out, it easily happens that this world is not inhabited by human beings but by varna-sankara - living beings who adopt this human body but only pretend to be on the level of human consciousness, but in fact are not. Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 1.40 adharmābhibhavāt kṛṣṇa praduṣyanti kula-striyaḥ strīṣu duṣṭāsu vārṣṇeya jāyate varṇa-sańkaraḥ SYNONYMS adharma — irreligion; abhibhavāt — having become predominant; kṛṣṇa — O Kṛṣṇa; praduṣyanti — become polluted; kula-striyaḥ — family ladies; strīṣu — by the womanhood; duṣṭāsu — being so polluted; vārṣṇeya — O descendant of Vṛṣṇi; jāyate — comes into being; varṇa-sańkaraḥ — unwanted progeny. TRANSLATION When irreligion is prominent in the family, O Kṛṣṇa, the women of the family become polluted, and from the degradation of womanhood, O descendant of Vṛṣṇi, comes unwanted progeny. Just like the monkeys in Vrindavan, they steal, estimate the value of their haul and by waving from above at Loi Bazar, trading it with that shopkeeper/fence who gives them the most bananas as reward. Is there a big difference how present world economy functions, how nature's resources like oil are being exploited? Bhagavad-gita says, when religion is destroyed and women are manipulated into lusty mentality and of course kick the already lusty men into even more lusty thinking, varnasankaras, so called human beings take birth and create hellish conditiones all over this planet. Now we find worldwide that the airpollution of the atmosphere is so intense that the sunlight is reduced by 10% causing a chain reaction in all our fragile ecosystems. "Why the Sun seems to be 'dimming' " http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4171591.stm Except two countries on earth, all the currencies belong to a handful of international bankers who charge huge amounts of interest which forces nations, countries, cities into indebtedness without end. International Nepal Solidarity Network http://insn.org/?p=1999 Since the international banking system is controlled from a headquarter, the world's media/newsoutlets seem to function exactly the same way when reporting about the daily news. "War on terror", "liberating" women from being good mothers into filthy thinking and brainwashing men to understand that materialistc values is the only thing that counts. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtan mission wants to spread the yuga-dharma, the chanting of the Holy Names of Hare Krishna and Hare Rama all over the world, but where are those human beings, with human consciousness to understand the process of chanting? Srila Prabhupada focused on philosophy, beginning with expelling our illusions, by using the tools described in sastra as the hallmarks of the uttama-adhikari -- logic and argument. Present world's elite seem to understand only one thing - stealing from nature and trading at the global world market. Nice kali-yuga hell and animal zoo out there! sańkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāḿ kulasya ca patanti pitaro hy eṣāḿ lupta-piṇḍodaka-kriyāḥ SYNONYMS sańkaraḥ — such unwanted children; narakāya — make for hellish life; eva — certainly; kula-ghnānām — for those who are killers of the family; kulasya — for the family; ca — also; patanti — fall down; pitaraḥ — forefathers; hi — certainly; eṣām — of them; lupta — stopped; piṇḍa — of offerings of food; udaka — and water; kriyāḥ — performances. TRANSLATION An increase of unwanted population certainly causes hellish life both for the family and for those who destroy the family tradition. The ancestors of such corrupt families fall down, because the performances for offering them food and water are entirely stopped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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