Leaders keep people ignorant and addicted to maintain power; Krishna consciousness is the only real solution.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — June 14, 1972, Los Angeles 720614MW-LOS ANGELES [19:41 Minutes] Walk_720614MW-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: Māyā-sukhāya. For flickering happiness arranging huge paraphernalia, just like for sporting, just we saw, so many things. Māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān [SB 7.9.43]. No use.
There is no use, but fooling, for frivolous sporting. Just like beginning from the morning working, so many people are engaged, but they do not know the value of arranging maṅgala-ārati. They do not know. [laughter] Māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān.
Making huge arrangement. What for? Flickering happiness, that's all. Vimūḍhā, rascals.
Prahlāda Maharaja says, "I don't think for myself; I am simply anxious for these rascals who are engaged in huge affairs for some flickering happiness.'' Śoce tato vimukha-cetasa, māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān [SB 7.9.43]. [japa] [break] Construct a very nice temple in this open park, people would come in the morning and they will see the maṅgala-ārati, take prasādam. That would have been good for this life and next life. And what is they are doing? Ātreya Ṛṣi: They're simply miserable, Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: They're going to be cats and dogs or trees.
But they don't believe that there is life after death, so they think that "Whatever we have got now, let us enjoy sense.'' And the university education is giving them facility, "Yes, take education and gratify your senses from the very..., from the age of twelve years.'' And at the last stage they ... "I would have liked that one would have shot me down on my head.'' What that old lady was talking?
Devotee: Oh, yes. [laughs] Pradyumna: She said if someone else didn't shoot her, she would. She'd just do herself in. Prabhupāda: Hopeless life. Māyā-sukhāya.
Because simp..., they have wasted time simply for flickering happiness; in future everything is zero. Śūnyavādī, nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi. Śūnyavādī means whose ultimate goal is zero. Pāścātya-deśa, Western countries. Nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi. [japa] Every one of you should take this movement very seriously and save your country.