All material problems vanish when the mind is cleansed through devotional service to Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.6 — May 31, 1974, Geneva 740531SB-GENEVA [31:18 Minutes] SB-01.07.06_740531SB-GENEVA Prabhupāda: [Chants jaya rādhā-mādhava] [prema-dhvani] [01:59] Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat] anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām [SB 1.7.6] [break] [04:15] Translation: "The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this. Therefore the learned Vyāsadeva compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth." Prabhupāda: Anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣāt. Anartha means...
Artha means which is essential, artha. So anartha means just the opposite. So our present material condition is that we have increased some unwanted things, anartha. Therefore we have been entangled.
Just like yesterday I was speaking with that president. He was thinking the problem of economics. And what is the problem? There is no problem.
Anywhere, any part of the world you live, you just have some land and some animals. Animals means cow. Other animals also you can keep. There is no harm.
But cows must be there, animals. And you cannot destroy the cows. If you want to eat meat... That is the Indian system.
Indian system, for meat-eaters, there is concession. Just like for sex life there is concession, similarly, for meat-eater also, there is concession. And for drunkards there is concession. Not impractical.
Supposing one is drunkard, meat-eater, if I say all of a sudden, "Stop it," if he is not sober, he will not accept it. Just like in India there was prohibition. Gandhi, by his sentiment... There was no, I mean to say, education.