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Famine is punishment from the side of nature. She'll not supply to the raksasas. That is a punishment. Otherwise, there is no question of population

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"famine is punishment from the side of nature. She'll not supply to the rākṣasas. That is a punishment. Otherwise, there is no question of population"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Famine is punishment from the side of nature. She'll not supply to the rākṣasas. That is a punishment. Otherwise, there is no question of population.


Prabhupāda: Tṛpyanti neha kṛpaṇā bahu-duḥkha-bhājaḥ. Unless one diverts attention to Kṛṣṇa consciousness it is not possible. One must have some business, engagement. Just like in New York as soon as there was electric failure for four hours, so many women became pregnant. Because he has no business in the darkness. But if he was trained up to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, one could utilize the time for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. But they have not such training. Nobody has such training. So how they will utilize the time? "Come on, let us have . . ." Although he knows . . .

Matunga: Especially, Prabhupāda, when there is a famine, where there is no more food . . . They had big famine . . .

Prabhupāda: Food, there is punishment. It is not the . . . famine is punishment from the side of nature. She'll not supply to the rākṣasas. That is a punishment. Otherwise, there is no question of population. You may have as many . . . just like the birds and beasts. They do not care for . . . they have got enough food. But they do not violate the laws of the nature.

Harikeśa: One may argue that in nature there is this leveling out of the species, that one species kills another off so that the population is maintained at the proper level.

Prabhupāda: No species killed by another species. It is rascal proposal.

Harikeśa: Well, members of the species are killed by . . .

Prabhupāda: That is another thing. Jīvasya jīva . . . jivo jīvanam. One animal is eating another animal. That is another thing. But that does not mean species finished. That is nonsense.

Page Title:Famine is punishment from the side of nature. She'll not supply to the raksasas. That is a punishment. Otherwise, there is no question of population
Compiler:Ratnavali
Created:2015-12-28, 10:40:28
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