Krishna Consciousness - The Solution To All Our modern Day Problems

[kcp1982]

Krishna Consciousness - The Solution To All Our modern Day Problems

 

 

 

The problems in the World today are: Drugs, alcoholism, terrorism, violence, cancer, poverty, divorce, AIDS, conservation, global warming, droughts, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and financial ruin.

 

 

 

A Krishna conscious person follows the following principles; Krishna consciousness, No Intoxication, No Meat eating, No elicit sex, No gambling, Accepting the law of karma and reincarnation:

 

 

 

Krishna (God) consciousness.

 

 

Do you follow a God with no name, unknown address, unknown description, and unknown history, not seen, or not proven?

 

 

 

In the Vedic religion (Hinduism) God is a real person with a name, address, description, and history dating back to the beginning of creation (billions of years), seen by millions of humans (the forefathers of all of us), and proven. Lord Krishna is the Supreme Being (God) who last appeared in his original form, only 5000 years ago. He declared himself and proved that he was the Supreme Being, God, to millions of humans.

 

 

 

The life of a Krishna conscious person (a devotee) is centered on God (Krishna), which results in liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and re-birth after this life. The life of non-devotees is centered on materialism, lust, attachments, greed, or illusion. Which only result in bondage to material life for countless lifetimes. Material life is conditioned with misery, old age, disease, and death. There are 8.4 million bodies in which the soul keeps circulating. Out of these, only 400,000 are human species in various conditions of life. Not all the species are present on this planet. Thus human birth is rare, and one should utilize the higher consciousness to the fullest potential to break free from the wheel of birth, death, and re-birth, by becoming Krishna conscious.

 

 

 

When ones life is not centered on God, then it becomes centered on lust and materialism, which leads to anger and hatred as desires are unlimited and thus can never be satisfied. Couples should first love God, which will automatically lead to love for one another. If they just center their life around each other then their desires will never be satisfied and their relationship will end in misery, divorce.

 

 

 

Krishna consciousness people are totally non-violent (vegetarian), not materialist (simple), don’t behave like dogs on the street (no elicit sex), drug free (no intoxications), and don’t gamble with their life. The result of which is no mentality of violence, no AIDS, no druggies, and no financial ruin.

 

 

 

If you are serious about stopping terrorism, drugs, and AIDS. Then become Krishna conscious now.

 

 

 

No intoxications.

 

 

Drugs are the biggest worry for parents of children. In the US alone, millions of people are addicted to drugs.

 

 

 

Millions of people are addicted to alcohol. Alcohol causes health problems and human suffering due to un-controlled consciousness.

 

 

 

Cigarettes cause diseases like cancer and lung disorders.

 

 

 

Tea and Coffee are intoxicants, which are addictive and can affect the consciousness in a negative way.

 

 

 

No Meat Eating.

 

 

A man works all his life and gets a pension to live out his remaining days. The cow gives milk all her life, and then people kill and eat her. It's wrong. Man does not need to kill to live but he kills by the millions each day.

 

 

 

Animal killing, destruction of forests, and pollution is killing nature, which takes revenge in the form of droughts, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. In this age (Kali Yuga) things will only get worse by the day.

 

 

 

Scientific research has shown that eating meat can seriously damage your health. Meat eaters are much more likely to suffer from cancer, heart disease, and other diseases than vegetarians.

 

 

 

Killing animals is inhumane and uncivilized. They too are God’s creatures.

 

 

 

Meat eaters have a mentality of violence, a person who kills animals is much more likely to kill people too. Than a person who is a vegetarian. The most violent humans on Earth are animal killers. In this time of terrorism, it is important to know that all terrorists are meat eaters. It would be extremely rare to find a vegetarian terrorist. If everyone in the world were a vegetarian, there would be no terrorism.

 

 

 

It makes no economic sense to produce meat for human consumption. It takes at least 16 lbs of grain and many gallons of water to produce just 1 lb of meat. The 16 lbs of grain can feed at least 16 people while the 1 lb of meat can only feed 1 person. If everyone in the world were a vegetarian, there would be enough grain to feed twice the number of people in the world; there would be no poverty.

 

 

 

The forests of the world are being decimated by conversion to grazing lands, ruining the lungs of mother earth- that convert the carbon- di-oxide in the air back to oxygen. Global warming would be reduced considerably if there were no meat consumption. The contribution to global warming by automobiles is insignificant compared to the damage caused by breeding animals for meat consumption.

 

 

 

 

 

4. No Illicit Sex.

 

 

 

Millions of people around the world are dying from sexually transmitted disease like AIDS. Which is caused by humans behaving like dogs on the street.

 

 

 

In this age, relationships and marriages are often based on sex impulses only. This can be proven by the fact that most marriages end in a divorce. It is the children that suffer the most, all due to the lusty parents. Marriage often end due to one or both the partners wanting to move onto another mate. Just like the dogs on the street.

 

 

 

If there was no sex before marriage, and if humans did not behave like dogs on the street then the number of divorces and thus single parent families would dramatically reduce. Sexual lust only leads to misery.

 

 

 

Marriage beak-ups are costly in terms of human suffering and financially to both the partners.

 

 

 

5. No Gambling.

 

 

 

Millions of people gamble in various ways. Often most are losers. Gambling destroys the financial well being of many families and causes suffering. Mostly to women and children.

 

 

 

The gamblers don’t realize that it’s the bookies who win and not them.

 

 

 

 

6. Accepting the law of karma and reincarnation.

 

 

 

If a person kills and soon after dies himself. How can be punished unless he takes birth again? If a sinner is sent to hell forever then how can God be merciful unless he is given another chance? Reincarnation and karma explain why some people are born into misery and others into good fortune. Why some are born healthy and some diseased and so on.

 

 

 

By knowing that we are responsible for all our actions, one does not take actions, which causes suffering to others. This makes one very compassionate to all living beings. The law of karma makes one realize that by engaging in violence against other living beings will result in punishment, in equal proportion to the action.

 

 

 

Giving charity now will result in receiving charity in the future. If you give today to the needy, then in the future when you are in need, you will receive.

 

 

 

At death, all our actions taken during in life are taken into account to determine our next body (human or animal) and it’s conditions of life (rich, poor, healthy, diseased).

 

 

 

If all humans accepted that this life isn’t the only one and that for every action there will be a reaction, there would be no terrorism, violence, and criminals in the world. Also, if all humans were charitable and shared their wealth (take pious actions), there would be no poverty in the world.

 

 

 

People say “I want peace’. If you remove the ‘I’ (ego) and the ‘want’ (desires), you will be left with peace. Men and women must give up false ego, attachment to material objects, desires, and lust. This will result in everlasting peace and happiness.

 

 

 

 

 

Reincarnation and Karma are scientific facts.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hare Krishna!

 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

I havent read the entire post but a good presentation of Krishna Consciousness from a soci-economic and political standpoint which impacts everyones life in form or the other.

 

Haribol!

 

anand

[Guest guest]

I forgot to mention, social, economic and political issues are never-ending debates going on on all types of delivery system.

 

All branches of government impact the economy and social fabric of a particular region and ultimately a family and an individual.

 

So the post has conisely captured the essence of the different aspects of human endeavor under the umbrella of Krishna Consciousness- a job well done!

 

Haribol!

 

anand

[Guest guest]

I have come to understand that it was Sri Prabhupada's mission to establish the varna(caste) system in society. This mission has been unfufilled even though devotees number in the millions throughout the world. Now that KC teaches one to be a brahmana, or even trancendental to all varnas, shouldn't it also embrace the training of kshatriyas? I totally agree with the original poster, if a government was formed around the principles of the Gita and other shastra, many worldy problems would be solved! But it is time to organize, and rally around this idea, which should be taken seriously.

Jai Sri Krishna

-Amit

[Guest guest]

The time for caste is past. Today people will not spend time to really understand what caste is about in truth they will just hear the word and automatically be turned off. A new system has to be looked at to achieve the same thing. To streamline people into it but have no discrimination.

[Guest guest]

You are wrong, any other man-made social construct is bound to fail, only the varna system in accordance to shastra and supervised by people in proper religious knowledge (brahmins), and executed by properly fearless and powerful people (kshatriyas) will succeed in making man civilized once again. Krishna's word is timeless and contains infinite wisdom, therefore a sane person will follow it.

Jai Sri Krishna

-Amit

[Guest guest]

You say any other man-made social construct will fail but the caste system itself has failed, so what is your point about others being bound to fail, you have to admit the you can hardly get worse than what the caste system had degenerated into? If it was so great why did it fail? If in ages gone by when scriptures were more widely accepted and when people did not have as stong a sense of "I-ness" it did not work what hope is there now? The time for it has past. Today society is not driven by duty it is driven by greed. It will never be re-instituted in this age so don't get your hopes up.

[Guest guest]

It failed not becasue of its design, but becuase of the people with authority. The so called brahmanas failed and even worse the kshatriyas failed miserbly in defending dharma. If people are fools with no sense of bhagavan and shastra then what hope do you have in a proper state? Movements like KC are trying to educate the masses but the next step is the role of the kshatriya. It is therefore the responsiblity of the state (kshatriyas) to properly guide and care for the people, something no government is truly doing now. Why is this? Because the leadership is getting their authority by means of force or so called "elections" but not from the shastra. Today's situation is caused by leaders who are corrupt and foolish, believing not in religion but rather in materialism and bigotry (welcome to Kali Yuga). But still I believe there is hope! If we can bring ourselves to the forefront of modern political/social disucssion and scientifically prove our position to be far superior, then progress is possible.

Jai Sri Krishna

-Amit

[Guest guest]

There can be many great working "designs", the sad fact is the limiting factor is always PEOPLE, if the people THEN in a less devolved ages failed to upkeep the proper traditions then what hope is there today? If we could institute these things and bring everyone back to religion etc it would not be the age of Kali. Just the word Caste alone will turn people away. What has to be done is the people have to be made to see what the caste system means, they have to be made to take up their proper place in working society, work has to be done to explain the psychology behind it and it has to be shaped in a manner such that people can live that within the present society, to think that an entire early-vedic civilization can be reinstituted today is VERY far fetched. A kshatriya class will not be widely accepted today. What is of greater importance is the reinstution of the brahmin influence on the modern governance. Because of the destruction of this link modern smriti is non-existent or limited in its reach.

 

Also because of the development of society materially the distinctions between the castes have been immensely blurred, especially at the lower levels.

[kcp1982]

The problems in for example India is that the Politicians are all crooks. They are simply thievies and only interested in filling their own bellies.

 

None of them are religious, they just pretend to be. They don't even understand the basics of the Bhagavad-gita.

 

When the leaders are corrupt and materalist, the whole country becomes corrupt and materialist and irreligious. Things in India are becoming very bad, as the poeple are all becoming more and more materialist.

 

There should be 4 classes of people in each society or country for the country to be successful and prosperious. The Brahmans should be the Politicans and there should be the warrior class to protect. The class system according to qualifications and not birth died in India about 1000 years ago. That's why she was invaded and ruled by the Muslims and Christians who ruthlessly raped her.

 

It's because there is no class system that all the leaders and their followers are lower than Sudras.

 

Even after getting independence, the elected Politicians were lower than Sudras, but still they were made Prime Ministers. Like Neru who was a cow eater and ellicit sexer.

 

When the leaders are blind there is no hope for the followers. Currently all the leaders in India are totally blind. Even the so-called BJP leaders have recently proven that they are only interested in filling their own bellies. Advani went to Pakistan and bowed down to them to please them. He gave up Vedanta idiology to please the paks so that his own belly could be filled by winning the next election.

[Guest guest]

Hare Krishna,

 

Yes Kamleshbhai, I agree with you. And I do appreciate all your postings and replies in here which I ever look forward to read. You certainly are doing the part of the squirrel in building up the setu.

 

Hari Bol.

[Guest guest]

A formal caste system will never work. There was caste in the time of the Mahabharat and there were Corrupt politicians then. It is not only the politicians to blame, politicians are like the media the just do what will make them popular to get back in office. Just like the media works with ratings. You cant blame the media for putting bad stuff on air, if they put it and no one watched it would be pulled, just like the politicians, when they do what people want they get re-elected. The problems are not that simple that you just put this in place and everything will be solved. Now people also have to deal with foreign influences. Things have to be reshaped. A competitive society will naturally move into castes because people will have to do what they are best at to succeed.

 

And just look at what you are saying, the politicians are lower than sudras. It is for this same reason that people will not want to go back to that, who will want to be looked at as LOW. Why should one class live in opulence and the next live filth?? Would you mind being one of the sudras??

[kcp1982]

In response to the above reply.

 

First of all, one needs to understand what the caste system is. Please read www.gitamrta.org/caste.htm

 

At your work place is the CEO the dummest, dirtiest, least qualified, least experienced person in the company?

 

The simple answers is no. Only the best can become a CEO of a corporation. One needs to be qualified to take up a certain position in a company. This is what the Vedic caste system is. One must be qualified to be a leader. But since there is no formal Vedic caste system. Anyone who can talk non-sense, takes bribes, and is good at guggling words can become a Politician.

 

None of the Politicians in India are qualified to be leaders, they have the qualifications of a Sudra. Yet they have the position of a Brahmana. When a janitor runs a company. The company will fail for sure. Similarly when Sudras run a country, the country becomes chaotic. Just like India. She is full of corruption, filth, poverty, illeterate, AIDS, and so on.

 

If the Politicians were the highest among man kind, with the qualifications of Brahmana. Like being very religious, vegetarian, no intoxications, no ellicict sex, no gabmling, truthfull and so on. The people in the whole country will strive to become the same. That's how India was in Satya Yuga.

 

[Guest guest]

If that is how it was, and it was so perfect how come it became degraded?

 

I am familiar with the caste system. not from gitamrta but from bhagavad geeta and uddhava geeta. You are missing my point. Before I restate it again let me first address what you have said about the sudras.

 

Branding people as the dumbest, dirtiest, people is uncalled for and goes against the spirit and aim of the caste system. In fact because of these attitudes the system broke down. This, dirtiness and dumbness, was a function of the time, a sudra today does not have to be dumb and dirty. A lot of scientists engineers, accountants (people with high paying jobs living in big fancy houses) are actually sudras. They don't have any ambition or anything, they just found it easy to do maths so they became an accountant or an engineer so they could work for someone and that is it.So I would like to echo your sentiments about finding out what the caste system deals with and I would especially refer you to the Uddhava Geeta where Bhagavan describes the castes a little more.

 

But anyway you are making my point. This attitude that sudras are dirty and dumb and some people are better than others on a fundamental level is completely WRONG and it is WHY the it will not be accepted. It is not that one is better than the other, one is better SUITED than the other. You are making the mistake of thinking that things not being equal means that they are not equally important. That is what the caste system is, an admission that the four fingers are not equal, as they say. It does not have to mean that one is more important than the next. The Brahmin is best suited to religious knowledge and matters of ethics and leading the people toward God, the sudras are suited to be workers, to do the work that needs to be done to make the vision of the leaders come true, they don't have to be manual labourers in todays age, that is what I meant by the blurring of the lines, they can be physicists, doctors, engineers, accountants anything.

 

To get everyone working where he is best suited is what the caste system aims at. That way job frustration can be minimized, there will be a generally happier society and then people can find time to turn their minds to God instead of worrying about their unfulfilling jobs and lives. Trying to institute a rigid caste system will never happen anytime in the forseeable future because nobody will want to be branded a sudra which has the stigma of being dirty and dumb as some people believe them to be. This is why I stand by my statements that work has to be done to adapt to the times and the societal requirements of the age. The basic ideology of the caste system has to be present but it has to be instituted by inculcating understanding in the people.

 

If you try to tell people about higher and lower and better and worse everyone will obviously want to be the highest, that is how the world is now. Instead we have to break down these barriers. People have to be made to see that all parts of society are important for an efficient functioning, they should be made to see that the garbage collector is just as important to the society as the politician and the priest, when people do not feel that these are jobs for the dirty, the dumb and the low, but see them as necessities for a progressive society then the caste system will NATURALLY fall into place without the need for regimentation or name calling.

 

 

[Guest guest]

First of all I agree with KCP, using India as an example. India's politicians are basically crooks and fools, you can not argue this fact. Do you agree that the average indian politican is the exact opposite of what a brahmana and kshatriya is? In fact any decent sudra puts these politicans to shame! Who said sudras are dirty and dumb? It seems you have implied it! They should be strong to work the land and smart enough to be productive at their job, they should be proud of what they do! Remember sudras are an important part of a vedic society, (a persons limbs are as important as his head) and they would be appreciated instead of oppressed and looked down upon as manual laborers are in so called modern countries (gasp! imagine that!). In fact it is hypocritical to critize the varna caste system expecially if you are comparing it to western countries such as the USA where social divisions exist in a very real way based on race! I agree with the last poster on his views regarding how peoples perceptions must change but we should not sugar coat the varna system just so bigots can be satisfied. Those people who think the sudra is low and dirty should be taught otherwise!

Jai Sri Krishna

-Amit

[Guest guest]

First of all I have no knowledge of India's politics. I make no comments about it. I did say in one of my earlier posts that the link between the religious leaders and the state has to be re-established so that modern smriti can come into play.

 

I did not criticize the varna system if you read what I posted, I said it will not be accepted. I did not say it was bad. Dirty and dumb came from the post above asking the question if the CEO is the dirtiest dumbest least qualified person, the implication was that a sudra cannot do a brahmin's job( which I agree with, the dirty and dumb I do not). The only relevant one was the one about qualifications.

 

Sudras TODAY are not only about working the land, read the post again, they can also be scientists etc. Also if you go to the gitamrta website it describes the lower to castes as having diminished qualities as the upper two castes. I am saying that this is no longer the case. A sudra may today can be smarter than a Brahmin. IT so happened that long ago the scientists, philosophers and priests were all the same people, so you could make that distincition. Today they are not. So you can have very different circumstances.

 

It is not an attempt to sugar coat the the system, it is working with reality, dealing with real problems that will come up, things that will have to be addressed. What is the aim? the benefit of society or the reintroduction of the caste system??? The ultimate aim is the benefit of society, the reintroduction of the caste system is just the means of doing it. If we seriously want to benefit society we have to come to terms with hard facts. Some terms just won't work because of stigma. As long as people THINK they are being segregated (even if that is not what is really happening) they will not accept it. Therefore the people that understand what the caste system is about must work to ensure that the aims of the caste system are met. They must ensure that people take up their proper place in working society. This is the essence of the caste system after all. A strict regimentation does not fit the modern era. People like to feel that they have the freedom to do whatever they want to and they should be able too but they should be educated so that they understand what is best for them by themselves.

 

I will tell you now, NOBODY will feel proud to be called a sudra no matter how much you explain, these things are engrained into the public psyche. There is too much history behind that name to just wish it away or to think that people will be able to accept it for what it is, that is EXTREMELY wishful thinking.