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Fragile

Other Books by Srila Prabhupada

Renunciation Through Wisdom

By trying to achieve only their selfish interests, the owners create a situation in which any harmony or unity is not only fragile but dangerous.
Renunciation Through Wisdom 1.7:

Most factory workers and other laborers cannot maintain a good character and thus slide down to depravities. And if such derelicts increase in population, the world has no chance for a prosperous and fortunate future. But if the owners give their laborers and office staff prasādam, then both the givers and the receivers will gradually become purified and more attracted to the Supreme Lord. The whole society will become elevated, civilized, and united in harmony. On the other hand, by trying to achieve only their selfish interests, the owners create a situation in which any harmony or unity is not only fragile but dangerous. And when the owners fire these degraded laborers in pursuit of their crass self-interest, neither the owners themselves nor the laborers are benefited. Soon the workers automatically turn inimical toward their employers.

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

The mind is so, I mean to say, fragile that even little, they can create havoc.
Lecture on BG 6.11-21 -- New York, September 7, 1966:

So that brahmacāri-vrata is essential for yogi. Brahmacāri-vrata. Now, yata-cittasya... yogam ātmanaḥ, that mind should not be agitated. He says, "The mind should not be agitated." Suppose I am brahmacārī, I have taken the vow, brahmacāri-vrate sthitaḥ, I have taken the vow that "I will have no sex life in my life." Then mind may be agitated sometimes. So there is precautions. Precautions. It is said in the Vedic literature that one should be very careful about woman. They are so much careful, mātrā svasrā duhitrā vā nāviviktāsano bhave (SB 9.19.17)t. The prescription is that "One should not sit alone even with his mother, with his sister, and with his daughter." You see. Balavān indriya-grāmo vidvāṁsam api karṣati. The mind is so, I mean to say, fragile that even little, they can create havoc. You see? So these things are prescription for the yogis.

Page Title:Fragile
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas, Vraja-kumara
Created:22 of Jul, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:2