Not Only Negative, Also Positive - Prabhupada 0540

730422 - Lecture SB 01.08.30 - Los Angeles

Your government is spending millions of dollars for stopping this intoxication. Everyone knows. But the government has failed. How simply by law or by lecturing you can make them without LSD or intoxication? That is not possible. You must give them good engagement. Then it will be automatically . . . and practically you see that our students who come here, we instruct, "No intoxication," immediately given up. And the government has failed. This is practical.

Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 2.59). If you don't give somebody good engagement, you cannot stop his bad engagements. That is not possible. Therefore we are giving two side—good engagements, at the same time prohibition. We simply don't say that, "No illicit sex, no intoxication, no, no . . ." Simply negative is no meaning.