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<div class="heading">This industry is horrible work. Simply by tilling your ground you get food grains, and keep some cows, you get milk—your economic problem is solved. Why such big, big industries? Ugra-karma.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Devotees -- July 2, 1974, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Devotees -- July 2, 1974, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Cāru:</p>
:pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca
:janā na vidur āsurāḥ
:na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro
:na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.7 (1972)|BG 16.7]])
<p>"Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them."</p>
:asatyam apratiṣṭhaṁ te
:jagad āhur anīśvaram
:aparaspara-sambhūtaṁ
:kim anyat kāma-haitukam
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.8 (1972)|BG 16.8]])
<p>"They say that this world is unreal, that there is no foundation and that there is no God in control. It is produced of sex desire, and has no cause other than lust."</p>
:etāṁ dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya
:naṣṭātmāno 'lpa-buddhayaḥ
:prabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ
:kṣayāya jagato 'hitāḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.9 (1972)|BG 16.9]])
<p>"Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This industry is horrible work. Simply by tilling your ground you get food grains, and keep some cows, you get milk—your economic problem is solved. Why such big, big industries? Ugra-karma. Then? Go on.</p>
<p>Cāru:</p>
:kāmam āśritya duṣpūraṁ
:dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ
:mohād gṛhītvāsad-grāhān
:pravartante 'śuci-vratāḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.10 (1972)|BG 16.10]])
<p>"The demoniac, taking shelter of insatiable lust, pride and false prestige, and being thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The big two wars of the world happened only on account of this industry. Do you know that? The cause is the big, big industry. Germany industrial, they produce goods. They must have market. But when they go to sell, there is no market. Britishers will not allow to sell them. The Britisher will take, purchase from them, and stamp it "Made in England" and sell it. And this is the cause of two big war. Therefore German declare twice war. Disaster. Therefore it is said, jagata ahitāya. Then? Go on.</p>
<p>Cāru: Purport?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, the other śloka.</p>
<p>Cāru: Other śloka.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Cāru:</p>
:cintām aparimeyāṁ ca
:pralayāntām upāśritāḥ
:kāmopabhoga-paramā
:etāvad iti niścitāḥ
<p>Prabhupāda: Translation?</p>
<p>Cāru: There is one more verse.</p>
:āśā-pāśa-śatair baddhāḥ
:kāma-krodha-parāyaṇāḥ
:īhante kāma-bhogārtham
:anyāyenārtha-sañcayān
:(Bg. 16.11-12)
<p>"They believe that to gratify the senses unto the end of life is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus there is no end to their anxiety. Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires, by lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then? Next.</p>
<p>Cāru:</p>
:idam adya mayā labdham
:imaṁ prāpsye manoratham
:idam astīdam api me
:bhaviṣyati punar dhanam
:asau mayā hataḥ śatrur
:haniṣye cāparān api
:īśvaro 'ham ahaṁ bhogī
:siddho 'haṁ balavān sukhī
:āḍhyo 'bhijanavān asmi
:ko 'nyo 'ti sadṛśo mayā
:yakṣye dāsyāmi modiṣya
:ity ajñāna-vimohitāḥ
:(Bg. 16.13-15)
<p>Translation: "The demoniac person thinks: 'So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes.' "</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Next. Next bank balance. Then?</p>
<p>Cāru: " 'So much is mine now and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him; and my other enemy will also be killed. I am the lord of everything, I am the enjoyer, I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice.' In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like Hitler, Napoleon. They thought like that. Yes. Then? Next verse?</p>
<p>Cāru: Aneka-citta-vibhrāntā moha-jāla samāvṛtāḥ...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now where is Hitler? Where is Napoleon? Finished. Then?</p>
<p>Cāru: Moha-jāla-samāvṛtāḥ, prasaktāḥ kāma-bhogeṣu patanti narake 'śucau: ([[Vanisource:BG 16.16 (1972)|BG 16.16]]) "Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, one becomes too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and falls down into hell."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then?</p>
<p>Cāru:</p>
:ātma-sambhāvitāḥ stabdhā
:dhana-māna-madānvitāḥ
:yajante nāma-yajñais te
:dambhenāvidhi-pūrvakam
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.17 (1972)|BG 16.17]])
<p>"Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes perform sacrifices in name only without following any rules or regulations."</p>
:ahaṅkāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ
:kāmaṁ krodhaṁ ca saṁśritāḥ
:mām ātma-para-deheṣu
:pradviṣanto 'bhyasūyakāḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.18 (1972)|BG 16.18]])
<p>"Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon becomes envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in his own body..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Next stage. "What is God? I am God." Then?</p>
<p>Cāru: "And in the bodies of others and blasphemes against the real religion."</p>
:tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān
:saṁsāreṣu narādhamān
:kṣipāmy ajasram aśubhān
:āsurīṣv eva yoniṣu
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.19 (1972)|BG 16.19]])
<p>"Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life."</p>
:āsurīṁ yonim āpannā
:mūḍhā janmani janmani
:mām aprāpyaiva kaunteya
:tato yānty adhamāṁ gatim
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.20 (1972)|BG 16.20]])
<p>"Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they sink down to the most abominable type of existence."</p>
:tri-vidhaṁ narakasyedaṁ
:dvāraṁ nāśanam ātmanaḥ
:kāmaḥ krodhas tathā lobhas
:tasmād etat trayaṁ tyajet
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.21 (1972)|BG 16.21]])
<p>"There are three gates leading to this hell-lust, anger, and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul."</p>
:etair vimuktaḥ kaunteya
:tamo-dvārais tribhir naraḥ
:ācaraty ātmanaḥ śreyas
:tato yāti parāṁ gatim
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.22 (1972)|BG 16.22]])
<p>"The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kuntī, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination."</p>
:yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya
:vartate kāma-kārataḥ
:na sa siddhim avāpnoti
:na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim
:([[Vanisource:BG 16.23 (1972)|BG 16.23]])
<p>Prabhupāda: I think you missed that verse, jagato ahitāya. Anyway, these are the description of demonic activities. So this is practical. The last two disastrous war was waged only for this industry. This is the cause. German, they are actually in Europe very intelligent and their machine products and other things, they make very nice things. At least, I have got experience, German chemicals are first-class chemical. So they manufacture and British occupied the half of the world in their colonization, whole Africa, and they controlled India and China, Japan, yes, China, Burma, Ceylon, Australia. So these poor people, they manufactured. They have got goods enough; where to sell? As soon as they go to the British territories, "No, you cannot sell. If you want to sell, then hundred percent duty." So price increase. This was the grudge. Everyone knows. This is the cause of two wars. The jagato ahita. Now, why so much? You require a scissor? Go to a blacksmith and pay something. He'll make a scissor. "No. Produce millions of scissor." Then where is market, sir? This is going on. Produce millions of TV machine. Simple they are used for wasting time. One or two or five made for some important business. Now they are producing millions of sets. They must sell. And people are induced to purchase. And as soon as they purchase, they simply see television. Idol worship. And learning vicious things. Some unnecessary picture is produced there. They like to see it. Two train are coming and they are smashed. (laughs) I have seen some television. People are learning how to smash, how to steal, how to harass people. Things are being shown like that. Not that "You are soul. You are spirit soul. If you degrade yourself, you then get this." You make that television, that how transmigration of the soul is taking place. They have manufactured the machine, so utilize for your propaganda. We have got to do so many things. We can utilize everything. So if they are not used for Kṛṣṇa's purpose they'll be used for committing disaster in the world. Just like the atomic bomb. They are meant for creating disaster, that's all. What else they can do? And now everyone is having atomic weapon, just like India has now got. That means they are preparing, by nature's course they are preparing for war, and "I put my atomic bomb on your head, and you put on my head. You die, I die, that's all." They simply die. Now what was the result of the disastrous war twice? The whole European nations ruined. They are not no more rich. I saw in Paris, in Germany. They are not as rich as the Americans. Because American inland, there was no such big war, so their opulence is existing, but on account of these two wars, British completely finished. Yes. British completely. It is now... Hitler wanted that "I shall again make these English people a fisherman's island. They have to take their business to fishing only." (laughter) That was Hitler's declaration.</p>
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