Morning Walk

Modern Civilization Is Advancement of Ignorance Working Like Hogs – Real Civilization Minimizes Work for Krishna

📅 March 4, 1975 📍 Dallas ⏱ 24 min
Real civilization minimizes material work to maximize Krishna consciousness, not endless laboring like hogs.
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Morning Walk — March 4, 1975, Dallas 750304MW-DALLAS [23:45 Minutes] Walk_750304MW-DALLAS Prabhupāda: ...and standing naked, that those who are fond of nudie-ism, they will get it next life: "All right, you stand naked for many years." This is the punishment. Human society, naked, that is their punishment. Jayatīrtha: And during the winter they even lose their leaves...

Prabhupāda: Eh? Jayatīrtha: During the winter, when it's coldest, they lose their leaves.

Prabhupāda: The trees are taken to be the most tolerant. Tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā [Cc. Ādi 17.31, Śikṣāṣṭaka 3]. There is an extreme example of tolerance, this tree life. Dayānanda: In one of the purports in Bhāgavatam you mention that first comes humility, then nonviolence and then tolerance.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Dayānanda: Is that also mentioned that in other places in our śāstra?

Prabhupāda: There are many places. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [break] ...is given for cultivating God consciousness, and they have become advanced civilized, they are cultivating nudie-ism. Is it not?

Nudie-ism. So the punishment is that "All right, you become nudie. You remain standing in one place for five thousand years." [laughter] Yes. The trees live up to five thousand years, ten thousand.

They live. Viṣṇujana: Prabhupāda? But they argue that if God wanted us to wear clothes He would have made us with clothes. But He made us without clothes, so...

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