Prabhupāda: We are talking the wholesale solution, not a particular thing. There are so many disturbing things, especially they are under the headings of these four principles; janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam.
So . . . mad-dhāma gatvā. Just the other day we discussed the śloka, that tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya (BG 4.9): "Now, one who becomes Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then the result will be that just after quitting this body, he comes to Me. No more coming to this material world."
So long you'll be in the material world—material world means so long we'll have this material body—we'll have to face so many disturbances. War is one of them. Suppose there is, perpetually, there is no war. Do you mean to say there will be perpetual peace? No. There are so many other things. At once, if there is some upheaval in the Atlantic Ocean, the whole thing is swallowed up—your beautiful New York City will be no more there. There are so many natural disturbances. What to speak of war, what you have . . .
Mr. Goldsmith: Bhagavad-gītā speaks of war. It started out with a war.
Prabhupāda: No, what . . . I mean to say, Bhagavad-gītā says . . . Bhagavad-gītā does not say that stop war. Bhagavad-gītā says stop your repeated birth and death. Bhagavad-gītā is not concerned with the war principle. The war will remain so long the human society is there. How can you stop it?
Mr. Goldsmith: Well, some people don't believe that it's necessary.
Prabhupāda: Some people, they foolishly believe. Because, so long the human society will continue, there is no history that there was no war in the history. So war there will be.
Mr. Goldsmith: Well, there's never been in history that everyone has accepted Kṛṣṇa, either, and yet you . . .
Prabhupāda: No, you do not think that . . . of course, when you are Kṛṣṇa conscious, when you are not in this material world, then there is no question of war also. My point is that war is not only the only disturbing principle. There are many other disturbing principles. So we have to make a wholesale solution of all principles. That is the point.
Keith: War is only a symptom.
Prabhupāda: Yes. War is also one of the . . . just like a man diseased, he eats something, sometimes say: "Oh, doctor, I am feeling some headache." "Oh, all right, take some this pill." Just like I see advertisement, "Oh, you are feeling strain? Take this pill." "You are feeling this? Oh, take this pill." Just like Post Office. Just like Post Office. All letters should be given to the post box, and it will go in different places. So doctor is prescribing like that. But a real doctor, he'll see what is the disease there. And if that disease is cured, then he'll have no headache, no leg . . . pain leg, no, nothing of the sort.