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<div class="heading">Bhagavad-gītā never says that "you don't require to eat. You simply breathe air and practice yoga." No. But we must eat neither more, nor less. That is recommended. Yuktāhāra-vihārasya. We should not eat more, nor less. And nirāśīḥ. Nirāśīḥ means desireless of extravagance. Now we are desiring for sense gratification more and more. That is not wanted.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.21 -- Bombay, April 10, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.21 -- Bombay, April 10, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Economic development means to get more money and to satisfy senses more and more. This is the modern theory. But Kṛṣṇa says that to achieve the perfection of life, one should be ''nirāśīḥ. Nirāśīḥ'' means unnecessarily desiring for sense gratification. Unnecessarily. Everyone has got right to live and live nicely. For that purpose there is sufficient arrangement by the Lord. ''Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān'' (''Kaṭha Upaniṣad'' 2.2.13). There is sufficient arrangement. No living being will starve. There is such arrangement. But when we forget more and more Kṛṣṇa and God, nature will punish. There will be restriction of supply of foodstuff. That is nature's law.

:''daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī''
:''mama māyā duratyayā''
:''mām eva ye prapadyante''
:''māyām etāṁ . . .''
:([[vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]])

So present crisis, food crisis . . . everything is described in the ''Bhagavad-gītā''. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' does not say that, "You live by breathing air." No. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' says, ''annād bhavanti bhūtāni'' ([[vanisource:BG 3.14 (1972)|BG 3.14]]). ''Anna. Anna'' means food grains. There is necessity of food grain. ''Annād bhavanti bhūtāni''. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' never says that, "You don't require to eat. You simply breathe air and practice ''yoga''." No. But we must eat neither more nor less. That is recommended. ''Yuktāhāra-vihārasya''. We should not eat more nor less. And ''nirāśīḥ. Nirāśīḥ'' means desireless of extravagance. Now we are desiring for sense gratification more and more. That is not wanted.

If you want perfection of life . . . this is called ''tapasya''. One has got the desire, but he should not desire unnecessarily. Everyone has got the right to eat, even the animals. Everyone has got the right. But because we are desiring to enjoy more, therefore we do not give the chance to the animals to live properly, rather we are trying to eat the animals. This is not required. This is called ''nirāśīḥ''. Why you should eat animals? That is uncivilized life. When there is no food, when they are aborigines, they may eat animals, because they do not know how to grow food. But when the human society becomes civilized, he can grow so many nice foods, he can keep the cows; instead of eating the cows, he can get milk, sufficient milk. We can make so many preparation from milk and grains. So we should not desire unnecessarily to enjoy more.

Then it is said here, ''kurvan nāpnoti kilbiṣam. Kilbiṣam'' means resultant action of sinful life. ''Kilbiṣam''. So if we don't desire more than our necessary, then we are not implicated, involved, in sinful activity, ''kurvan api,'' even though he is engaged in working. While you are working, knowingly or unknowingly you have to commit something which is not pious, even sinful—but if you simply desire for living properly, then ''kurvan napi . . . nāpnoti na kilbiṣam. Kurvan nāpnoti kilbiṣam''. Our life should be without any sinful reaction. Otherwise we will have to suffer. But they do not believe, although they are seeing so many abominable lives. Wherefrom they are coming, 8,400,000 species of life? There are so many lives living very abominable condition. Of course, the animal or the living creature does not know, but we human being, we should know why this is . . . this abominable life. It is ''māyā's'' illusion.