Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 105

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This attachment, karmanubaddha, for this material world, everyone is busy --

we have discussed many times -- from morning till late at night, and night

also, they are busy. Big, big factories, they are working day and night, one

shift, other shift. That has become the criterion of civilization. Formerly

it was less, because this ugra-karma... These factories means ugra-karma,

unnecessarily severe, hard work. Unnecessarily. We have seen in Detroit,

they are manufacturing one Ford, manufacturing Ford, simply wheels of the

motorcar. Huge stock wheels. And somebody is manufacturing tire, huge stock

of tire, and they are giving estimate: "Up till now, so many millions of

tire we have manufactured." Well, you know all this. It is in your country.

And then there are so many motor parts, there are three thousand small

parts. So big, big factories, they are working to manufacture the parts of

the motorcar, different parts of the motorcar, day and night working. And

ultimately, they are preparing one car, and people are using huge quantity

of cars. This is called karmanubaddha, unnecessary, ugra-karma.

 

Transportation is required, but we see from Krsna books that the inhabitants

of Gokula... There was a meeting headed by Nanda Maharaja's young brother,

Upananda, and all the villagers, they assembled together. They discussed

that "Our Krsna is being repeatedly attacked by the asuras, and it has

become very troublesome. So let us leave this place." They are villagers.

They thought it wise that "Because we are in this village, some of the

demons, they are coming and disturbing." So they are villagers...

Immediately Nanda Maharaja agreed, "All right, let us leave this place." So

immediately, they transferred the whole village with their possessions,

cloth or something, everything, within one hour. And they transported by the

bullock cart to Nandagrama. That means, the idea is the whole village was

transferred from one village to another within very short time. So the

transport is required, the transport by bullock carts. The bulls are there.

They can be used for transport. Or the asses, they can be used for

transport. But... And the camels can be used for transport. There are so

many animals. So advancement, and big, big kings, royal families, they have

got their transport service by keeping elephants and horses. They can get on

the back of the horses and get yourself there. So nature's arrangement,

God's arrangement is there. Transport is required in the human society, but

you can utilize so many animals for your purpose. But at the present moment,

ugra-karma. The transport is there, but they have manufactured big, big

buses for transport, big, big cars, and the animals, they are now killed and

eat. That's all. This is civilization. This is civilization. Not to reduce

the labor, but increase the labor. Therefore they are called ugra-karma,

jagatah hita, and that will create disastrous condition of the human

society. This is discussed in Bhagavad-gita.

 

So our this simple living... We are introducing the simple living, that go

to the village, have sufficient food grains and milk, and the experiment is

successful in the Western countries, in New Vrindaban, in Philadelphia, in

New Orleans. So now the leaders of European and American countries, they are

threatened: "This kind of civilization, if it is advanced, then where he'll

stand?" This simple living... In Australia, one psychiatrist, he remarked

that "If this kind of simple living is introduced, then where you stand?" So

they want ugra-karma. They want to work day and night in the factories, and

to pacify themselves, they immediately require drinking, illicit sex.

Thence, by working on motorcars, they have no enough food, they want to eat

meat, kill animals; and to digest the meat, he must drink. One after

another. One after another.

So this ugra-karma, they have introduced, but they are not happy. Because

they are fools, they do not know their happiness is different. It cannot be

had from the ugra-karma. Therefore here it is said, sarvatra vyasana? What

is that? Jantor vyasanavagatya, sarvatra jantor vyasanavagatya. Your

material civilization, wherever you advance materially, there is trouble.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.10-13 -- Vrndavana, November 1,

1976