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People should spend sufficiently for propagating this Krsna consciousness. That is tyaga. Because everything requires money. Just like our Krsna consciousness movement, we have got 102 branches, and we have to spend money

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

If you actually want happiness, these things should be stopped, and tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena damena ca (SB 6.1.13). Tyāgena. Tyāgena, means to give in charity, tyāga. So people should spend sufficiently for propagating this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is tyāga. Because everything requires money. Just like our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we have got 102 branches, and we have to spend money.

It is the duty of the father, it is the duty of the mother, it is the duty of the government, the state, to raise the children very nicely. Now how horrible civilization it is that instead of raising them to perfect their human life they are being killed in the womb. Oh, how much horrible civilization this is, just imagine. It is simply horrible to think that the duty of the parents is to raise the child to the highest perfection of life; instead of doing that they are being killed in the womb of the mother. This is the situation. This should be stopped.

If you actually want happiness, these things should be stopped, and tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena damena ca (SB 6.1.13). Tyāgena. Tyāgena, means to give in charity, tyāga. So people should spend sufficiently for propagating this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is tyāga. Because everything requires money. Just like our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we have got 102 branches, and we have to spend money. We spend money, not . . . we are spending at the present moment, monthly, seventy thousand dollars. Seventy thousand dollars. In Indian calculation, it is seven lakhs of rupees. So everything required. We have to maintain establishment, we have to feed them, we have to educate them, we have to dress them.

So people should come forward to cooperate with this movement. That is called tyāgena. Charity should be given, money should be given. Money is . . . Gṛhasthas, those who are householders, their money should be spent for good cause, not for drinking and eating meat and dancing. No. It should be used for good purposes. First of all gṛhastha is advised not to bother himself to earn more than he requires. That is Vedic civilization. Just like the brāhmaṇa—brāhmaṇa means he collects money so much as he requires. That's all. Yavad artha, not more than that. brāhmaṇa . . . it is prohibited for a brāhmaṇa to make any bank balance. It is prohibited. He should daily collect some money, because if he makes bank balance it will be attraction.

Page Title:People should spend sufficiently for propagating this Krsna consciousness. That is tyaga. Because everything requires money. Just like our Krsna consciousness movement, we have got 102 branches, and we have to spend money
Compiler:Soham
Created:2024-09-23, 21:19:07.000
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