Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 68

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TRANSLATION

Those who drink through aural reception, fully filled with the nectarean

message of Lord Krsna, the beloved of the devotees, purify the polluted aim

of life known as material enjoyment and thus go back to Godhead, to the

lotus feet of Him [the Personality of Godhead].

 

PURPORT

The sufferings of human society are due to a polluted aim of life, namely

lording it over the material resources. The more human society engages in

the exploitation of undeveloped material resources for sense gratification,

the more it will be entrapped by the illusory, material energy of the Lord,

and thus the distress of the world will be intensified instead of

diminished. The human necessities of life are fully supplied by the Lord in

the shape of food grains, milk, fruit, wood, stone, sugar, silk, jewels,

cotton, salt, water, vegetables, etc., in sufficient quantity to feed and

care for the human race of the world as well as the living beings on each

and every planet within the universe. The supply source is complete, and

only a little energy by the human being is required to get his necessities

into the proper channel. There is no need of machines and tools or huge

steel plants for artificially creating comforts of life. Life is never made

comfortable by artificial needs, but by plain living and high thinking. The

highest perfectional thinking for human society is suggested here by

Sukadeva Gosvami, namely, sufficiently hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam. For men in

this age of Kali, when they have lost the perfect vision of life, this

Srimad-Bhagavatam is the torchlight by which to see the real path. [...]

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 2.2.37