Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 72

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TRANSLATION

The city of Dvarakapuri was filled with the opulences of all seasons. There

were hermitages, orchards, flower gardens, parks and reservoirs of water

breeding lotus flowers all over.

 

PURPORT

Perfection of human civilization is made possible by utilizing the gifts of

nature in their own way. As we find herewith in the description of its

opulence, Dvaraka was surrounded by flower gardens and fruit orchards along

with reservoirs of water and growing lotuses. There is no mention of mills

and factories supported by slaughterhouses, which are the necessary

paraphernalia of the modern metropolis. The propensity to utilize nature's

own gifts is still there, even in the heart of modern civilized man. The

leaders of modern civilization select their own residential quarters in a

place where there are such naturally beautiful gardens and reservoirs of

water, but they leave the common men to reside in congested areas without

parks and gardens. Herein of course we find a different description of the

city of Dvaraka. It is understood that the whole dhama, or residential

quarter, was surrounded by such gardens and parks with reservoirs of water

where lotuses grew. It is understood that all the people depended on

nature's gifts of fruits and flowers without industrial enterprises

promoting filthy huts and slums for residential quarters. Advancement of

civilization is estimated not on the growth of mills and factories to

deteriorate the finer instincts of the human being, but on developing the

potent spiritual instincts of human beings and giving them a chance to go

back to Godhead. Development of factories and mills is called ugra-karma, or

pungent activities, and such activities deteriorate the finer sentiments of

the human being and society to form a dungeon of demons.

 

We find herein the mention of pious trees which produce seasonal flowers and

fruits. The impious trees are useless jungles only, and they can only be

used to supply fuels. In the modern civilization such impious trees are

planted on the sides of roads. Human energy should be properly utilized in

developing the finer senses for spiritual understanding, in which lies the

solution of life. Fruits, flowers, beautiful gardens, parks and reservoirs

of water with ducks and swans playing in the midst of lotus flowers, and

cows giving sufficient milk and butter are essential for developing the

finer tissues of the human body. As against this, the dungeons of mines,

factories and workshops develop demoniac propensities in the working class.

The vested interests flourish at the cost of the working class, and

consequently there are severe clashes between them in so many ways. The

description of Dvaraka-dhama is the ideal of human civilization.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.11.12