BG [3.14] | Vedic Economics | HG Tattvavit dasa

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1. mohini says:

   27. May 2023 at 12:59 pm

   Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Karma-yoga

   Text 14

   annād bhavanti bhūtāni
   parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ
   yajnād bhavati parjanyo
   yajnaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ

   Translation

   All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain. Rains are produced by performance of yajna [sacrifice], and yajna is born of prescribed duties.

   60 years ago Srila Prabhupada mentions “immunisation” in 2 sentences in this verse.

   …..For this reason, the devotees of the Lord, who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, offer food to Kṛṣṇa and then eat—a process which nourishes the body spiritually. By such action not only are past sinful reactions in the body vanquished, but the body becomes immunized to all contamination of material nature. When there is an epidemic disease, an antiseptic vaccine protects a person from the attack of such an epidemic. Similarly, food offered to Lord Viṣṇu and then taken by us makes us sufficiently resistant to material affection….

   Srila Prabhupada in the purport is pointing out the most important aspect of food in the process of understanding the truth in the context of material contamination. When we offer the prescribed foodstuffs to Visnu and after converting it by this process to sanctified prasadam it will make us resistant to sinful infections which otherwise result in material and spiritual misery.

   In this verse Srila Prabhupada uses the simile of an antiseptic vaccine to illustrate the propagated effectiveness of protection against a certain contamination.

   If we dwell a little on this argumentation we will see that in the Sanskrit word by word translations of Text 13, 14, 15 there is no mention of disease, vaccines. Text 12 says thief, text 13 says sins, grevious sin, sinners. To drive the point home on eating only sin in regard to not offering our food, the vaccination example is the only example for the dull minds of present day Kaliyuga population to understand this point. People are so indoctrinated by scientific propaganda that they will only accept the same argumentation that science is using to indoctrinate them. They will not be able to understand any other argumentation as to the importance of offering foods and the resulting contamination of sin if not doing so. They also do not accept that meat, smoking and alcohol are bad for you, because science says otherwise. So much for dull brains. There is no contradiction here when we accept this argumentation for the sake of driving home the point of material contamination and sinful reactions of eating only sin by not offering our eatables as an act of sacrifice as yagna.

   In fact it shows clearly what eating only sin does to the mind. Everyone is being attacked by the epidemic of material contamination. Through sinful reactions the brain becomes fogged and than false saviours take advantage in the guise of science. Since everyone is born through the material energy he must be subject to the four material deficiencies: bhrama (the tendency to commit mistakes), pramāda (the tendency to be illusioned), vipralipsā (the tendency to cheat) and karaṇāpāṭava (imperfect senses). Fact is that all are submerged in the epidemic of karmic reactions and the onslaught of material contamination and Krsna Consciousness is the only solution to this problem.

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   Tattvavit Prabhu illustrates vividly what combined wrong and not sanctified food and sense gratification have done to our so-called advanced civilisation.

   Quote:

   “A few years ago people were still watching 1 hour documentaries, today their attention span, thanks to technology and social media, has dropped to 5-15 seconds maximum, TikTok….everything today is on the gadget and the head is empty…people are braindead, playing on the gadgets, wasting time…

   …reading a book that has so many pages, no thanks…book reading in Asian Culture is totally out…

   …when doing Japa in the street and to get some fresh air at 3am, people in Singapore are rushing around doing Pokemon Go games, adults not kids…

   …another example is cooking…nobody cuts vegetables anymore, you can buy precut from the supermarket and the result is all kinds of disease…

   …all people think that this is advancement, they only want convenience… people want to be happy but it’s illusion and they are creating trouble…

   …somebody send in a comment on the lecture, an angry emoji, he is angry with the lecture…”

   https://prabhupadabooks.com/bg/3/14

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