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video: PRABHUPADA VRNDAVANA TOUR 1971
Prabhupada, Boston, December 28, 1969: […] Just like a man who lives naturally, he never gets disease. But one who lives… Just like you don’t find any disease amongst the animals. But amongst the human beings, oh, there are so many medical science, so many things. Why? They live unnaturally.
So if you live naturally there is natural evolution, but if you block the natural course, then how you can do it? If you lit fire and let it go, it will grow. But if you pour water in it, how it will grow? So in the human form of life we do not go according to natural intuition. Just like amongst the animals, amongst the birds you’ll see.
Take the pigeons. You give them some peas—they will eat. But if you give them some particles of meat, they’ll not eat because they are living natural life. A tiger, he will not accept. You give him nice foodstuff, prepare your vegetables, he’ll not accept. So natural life evolves up to the animal life.
But when you come to the human form of life you have got developed consciousness, and instead of using your intelligence and consciousness for further develop naturally, you put unnatural impediments; therefore you are covered. That is called yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati, tadatmanam [Bg. 4.7]. Therefore you require instruction of Krishna.
Guest: One of the major criticisms today of most religions are their irrelevance to tackling the social problems or immediate external problems. You talked about things beyond the self.
In the Bhagavad-gita I think you have references such as Arjuna being told not to become attached to the fruit of his actions, but act. Can you give us some idea of, more specific idea, of the principles which would guide one’s action while trying to develop Krishna consciousness? Full Lecture
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