Is the Materialistic Civilization About to Fall Apart?

After a lapse of fifty years…

“By the grace of the illusory energy of Godhead we are now engaged more and more in the dangerous type of work in this machine-age. The machine-age is the result of dangerous type of work. When we leave aside the culture of spiritualism, we are entangled in the dangerous type of work. Nobody can live for a moment without work and therefore when finer elements are made to stop working, gross materialism occupies the devil’s brain. The result is that we have now come to the age of nuclear weapons for the destruction of material civilization. By the law of nature, the nuclear weapons have been produced for crushing the result of blind-materialism.”  

The peace move of different powers of the world, by the false gesture of suspending the experiments of dangerous weapons–may be very much pleasing to the comparatively weak nations–but these temporary peace-moves will prove useless by the law of material nature. When the dangerous weapons are produced, they must be utilised for annihilation of blind materialism by the plan of the Daivi Maya or the external energy of Godhead. The problem can be solved when they are taught about their spiritual identity.

The soul-killing civilization is progressively taking to the dangerous type of work by invention of huge mechanical means. The illusory energy is creating this atmosphere for blind materialism and on the other hand she is arranging for their destruction also. Such opposite methods are called illusory energy. The human energy is thus misused for breaking the same thing which is produced by the same energy.

It is something like blazing the fire and extinguish it by pouring water simultaneously–a sign of insanity or spoiling the valuable human energy meant for spiritual culture. History has been repeated so many times and many many leaders of materialism like Napoleon, Hitler and others now remain in name only without any sign of the material progress planned by them. De-Stalinisation has already begun in Russia. Nobody is enjoying the result of civilization created by atheists like Ravana, Kansa, Aurangzeb, Napoleon or Hitler. Everything is in oblivion and this teaches us the lesson that the materialistic plans of the present age will also meet with the same fate after a lapse of 50 years. Therefore blind materialism does not bring in any permanent relief in the world.

Is the Materialistic Civilization About to Fall Apart?

BY: ANUTTAMA DEVI DASI

Jun 12, 2010 — WASHINGTON, USA (SUN) — 54 years ago in the Back to Godhead magazine, Srila Prabhupada wrote, “…the materialistic civilization will be destroyed by nuclear weapons after a lapse of 50 years.” Well we’re 4 years after that lapse and it looks like the pure devotee was giving us a fair warning.

Historically, both world wars occurred after financial/economic collapses. We just experienced a financial collapse and if other countrys’ experiences with financial collapses leading to economic collapses are a clue, the US is on the brink of an economic collapse. (For people who are unfamiliar with what an economic collapse means, it means there is no food in the grocery store.). That is what happened with the Weimar Republic, the USSR, Cuba and Argentina. So the likelihood of an economic collapse in the USA is very high.

In addition, the Gulf “oil spill” is probably much, much worse than is being reported. Here is an excerpt from an article originating in Russia:

• “A dire report circulating in the Kremlin today that was prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Anatoly Sagalevich of Russia’s Shirshov Institute of Oceanology warns that the Gulf of Mexico sea floor has been fractured “beyond all repair” and our World should begin preparing for an ecological disaster “beyond comprehension” unless “extraordinary measures” are undertaken to stop the massive flow of oil into our Planet’s eleventh largest body of water.

Most important to note about Sagalevich’s warning is that he and his fellow scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences are the only human beings to have actually been to the Gulf of Mexico oil leak site after their being called to the disaster scene by British oil giant BP shortly after the April 22nd sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform.

BP’s calling on Sagalevich after this catastrophe began is due to his being the holder of the World’s record for the deepest freshwater dive and his expertise with Russia’s two Deep Submergence Vehicles MIR 1 and MIR 2 which are able to take their crews to the depth of 6,000 meters (19,685 ft).

According to Sagalevich’s report, the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico is not just coming from the 22 inch well bore site being shown on American television, but from at least 18 other sites on the “fractured seafloor” with the largest being nearly 11 kilometers (7 miles) from where the Deepwater Horizon sank and is spewing into these precious waters an estimated 2 million gallons of oil a day.”

In the USSR, their economic collapse occurred shortly after the terrible Chernobyl event, and it is looking like the Gulf “spill” is the US’s Chernobyl, only much, much worse. Already devotees in Mississippi are reporting crop damage due to toxic rains and there are scientists who speculate that the entire East Coast could become toxic due to similar “fallout”. The economic and humanitarian consequences are almost unimaginable. When the infrastructure of the US starts to collapse and society is in chaos, the likelihood of a world war following is very high, if history teaches us anything. And this coming war will be nuclear.

I’ve researched what is actually happening and it doesn’t jive with what the media is reporting. We don’t have to wonder whether there will be a nuclear war because we were told by the pure devotee that it would happen. Fortunately he also told us the importance of living locally. If we live locally and depend on Krsna, then we don’t have to worry about having undue discomforts to our material bodies. And if we live locally, it sets a good example for others and the lifestyle lends itself to being conscious of Krsna.

When this inevitable chaos leading to world war starts, there will be very limited options, so I encourage all devotees to make immediate plans to be able to relocate to a place where they can live locally. Srila Prabhupada also said that the Goddess of Fortune resides where grains are stored, so I recommend having at least one year’s supply of food at your designated location. For more information about living locally, you can visit our blog: billyandanuttama.wordpress.com .