Hare Krsna to all
Pranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Below Srila Prabhupada nicely explains the downside of automation/machines.
1. Men lose their jobs and then the govt has to pay them unemployment compensation
and where do you think the govt gets this money?? That’s right-from you and I in TAXES !!
So the material energy punishes us all for not taking Krsna’s plan of simple living
and high thinking.
2.Human life is not meant for solving these perpetual material problems. Rather it is
meant for solving the real problem-repeated birth and death.
3. These problems can at once be stopped by approaching the lotus feet of a pure
devotee of the Lord-one who has NO material aspirations at all.
Hare Krsna,
Damaghosa das
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720527SB.LA Lectures 230441/530501 If you take to natural life and live peacefully and take to Krsna consciousness, that is your real life. And if you simply increase botheration and problems, then you’ll have to suffer. That is the position of modern civilization.
(below is one of 8 boxes/drawers of stored apples for winter/spring use-“an apple a day
keeps the doctor away” ) each box has at least 2 layers of apples. I get these
boxes from the local supermarkets which they gladly give away freely along with
the layer inserts.
this fall the Elk herd out beyond our fields in the forest, munched to their hearts content
(at night) on most of my winter plants in the outside gardens -so the brussel sprouts didn’t have a chance
to get very large. Next year the elk early warning deterrent system is going up- permanently!!
Actually,superficially we see that material advancement of material science, people have got so many machines, so many facilities. But actually, they are in trouble. Just like I gave you one example: the computer machine. It can work for thousands of men. So thousands of men means the thousands of men must be unemployed. And especially in your country, they are taking advantage of this machine because the salary is If you want to pay to the worker, a big, big salary. So they want to save. They are taking machine, and they think they will save money, so many workers. But the workers are becoming unemployed. The government has to give them welfare. The government will tax. That’s all. (laughter.) Government will not give money, welfare, from government’s pocket. The government will increase your taxation. So you are…, you stop payment by importing some machine, now you have to pay that money to the government. This is called entanglement. This is a crude example. I don’t say that you stop all this business, but the material world is like that. You want to solve something; instead
of solving, you’ll create so many problems. This is material life. Because our life is not meant for solving problems and creating problems. Our life is meant for understanding God. Then everything is all right. But that you have given up.
… Then the next question is that how… People are not interested in Krsna consciousness, and then, they are misled by blind leaders. So how, what is the solution? That is Prahlada Maharaja saying,
naisam matis tavad urukramanghrim sprsaty anarthapagamo yad-arthah mahiyasam pada-rajo-‘bhisekam niskincananam na vrnita yavat
Therefore one has to take shelter of a pure devotee. That is the only solution. He says, naisam matis tavad urukramangrhim. The beginning was that “They are not interested in Krsna consciousness.” Then how to become Krsna conscious if that is the solution? Then Prahlada Maharaja says, naisam matis tavad: “So long one does not approach a pure devotee,” mahiyasam niskincananam, “great personalities, who has no more any material interest,” niskincana, “and takes the dust of his lotus feet on the head…” Naisam matis tavad urukramanghrim: “So long one does not approach such personality, there is no possibility of becoming Krsna conscious.” Naisam matis tavad urukramanghrim. As soon as one approaches the pure devotee and takes the dust of his lotus
feet and puts it on his head, immediately, anartha apagamah, he’ll be freed from all this nonsense. That means he’ll forget this idea that “Materially we can advance.” This is the process. So we have to approach a niskincana, who has nothing to do with this material world. His only ambition is to serve more Krsna. And if somebody approaches him and takes the dust of his lotus feet, then he can understand.