“Although the Water is there, you cannot use one drop. You are so controlled”

Prabhupada, Bombay, December 25, 1976:..And why birth control? That is also a long subject matter. There is no need of birth control, because Krishna says, aham bija-pradah pita: “I am the father.” And Krishna is not only ordinary father but He is the controller of nature:

mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram hetunanena kaunteya jagad viparivartate [Bg. 9.10]

So nature is producing our foodstuff, and He is the controller. And He is the father. So how there can be scarcity of food? This is a bogus propaganda: because the population is big therefore we cannot… This is our incapability. We cannot manage—we accuse that overpopulation.

But actually if you study sastra, if you accept Krishna as the father, the Supreme Lord, He is not a poor man. He knows. Vedaham samatitani. He knows past, present and future. So it is not that because there is overpopulation there is scarcity of food. No. That is not the cause.

The cause is that as soon as people will become godless, the supply will be stopped. That time is coming. That time is coming. It is predicted in the Srimad- Bhagavatam that anavrsti and kara-piditah. People gradually being godless, they will be suffering from these three principles. There will be no more rainfall. Therefore last time when I was in Europe—I do not know what has happened now—there was scarcity of rain, and England was making plan to import water. So this is scientist’s program. There is enough water in the sea, but they cannot use it. So that is hand of God.

Unless God helps, Krishna helps, mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram… [Bg. 9.10] The vast ocean, although the water is there, you cannot use one drop. You are so controlled.

prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate [Bg. 3.27]

Ahankara, our false egotism, we are suffering by the punishment offered by nature.

So the cause is godlessness. If we become godless, the prakrti will restrict supply—so much so there will be anavrsti. How can control? Because you may be very great scientist, you may deny the existence of God, but when there is anavrsti you are looking up in the sky, “When there will be cloud? When there will be rain?” Then taking this plea, our government will tax for relief fund.

That is all mentioned in Srimad-Bhagavatam. Anavrsti karo-pidita. People will be so much harassed. And acchina-dara-dravina giri-kananam. They will be so much harassed by these three principles—no rainfall, scarcity of grains, and taxed heavily by the government… They will be so much harassed that acchinna-dara-dravina giri-kananam, they will be forced to leave home, that “Now it is hopeless. I cannot manage. Let me go to the forest.” And there will be… Now we are getting rice or wheat or sugar.

But these things will be completely stopped. Now we are getting milk powder, but there will be no milk. It is not my imagination. They described in the symptoms of Kali-yuga, that the end of Kali-yuga these things will happen. That means more and more suffering. More and more become godless, more and more suffering will be inflicted by the laws of nature.

Therefore Rsabhadeva says here that tapo divyam putraka yena sattvam suddhyed. This human life is not meant for, I mean to say, spoiling by working hard like the animals, as we have said that, kastan kaman. Full Lecture