Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.20

World Peace Requires KC as Central Point, Doggish Mentality Divides Nations

📅 November 8, 1976 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 32 min
Without Krishna consciousness as the central point, humanity becomes like dogs divided by territorial borders, perpetually fighting.
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Pradyumna: ...devāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] tasmād bhavanto hṛdayena jātāḥ sarve mahīyāṁsam amuṁ sanābham akliṣṭa-buddhyā bharatam bhajadhvaṁ śuśrūṣaṇaṁ tad bharaṇaṁ prajānām [SB 5.5.20] [break] [00:43] Translation: "My dear boys, you are all born of My heart, which is the seat of all spiritual qualities. Therefore you should not be like materialistic and envious men.

You should accept your eldest brother, Bharata, who is exalted in devotional service. If you engage yourselves in Bharata's service, your service to him will include My service, and you will rule the citizens automatically." [break]

Prabhupāda: tasmād bhavanto hṛdayena jātāḥ sarve mahīyāṁsam amuṁ sanābham akliṣṭa-buddhyā bharatam bhajadhvaṁ śuśrūṣaṇaṁ tad bharaṇaṁ prajānām [SB 5.5.20] So Ṛṣabhadeva was retiring from the duty of royal position, and before that, He selected, out of His one hundred sons, Bharata as the king, next king. Bharata Mahārāja also very exalted. There is a long history of Bharata Mahārāja. Under his name this land or this earthly planet is called Bhārata-varṣa, on account of Bharata Mahārāja.

This planet, the whole planet, was formerly known as Bhārata-varṣa. Before that, it was known as Ilāvṛta-varṣa. After the reign of Bharata Mahārāja it was named Bhārata-varṣa. So the emperor of Bhārata-varṣa, of this..., ruling all over the world, even up to the time of Mahārāja Parīkṣit...

And this New Delhi, Hastināpura, was the capital of the world, and there was only one flag, united. There was no need of hundreds of flags, United Nation. We have seen in New York the United Nation organization. The flags are increasing—not under one flag.

The culture is lost. In India also the division. Everywhere the division is increasing. In Europe there is only one city, that is also another state.

Luxembourg or...? So without the central point, certainly, gradually the division will increase, and in the name of nationalism the strife and quarrel and fight will increase. Just like in India twenty years before or thirty years before, there was no Pakistan. Now they are divided, and already two big fights have been performed.

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