“They spend Billions of Dollars to try to go in Space, but they don’t spend that Money for Food.”

Amogha, May 11, 1975, Perth: They used to think that because there is overpopulation we will go to another planet and then begin living there.
Prabhupada: No question of overpopulation. There are so many land. You do not know how to live. There is no question of overpopulation. You want to live like cats and dogs. Therefore you fight; there is scarcity. If you live properly, there is no question of scarcity. Otherwise it is perfect. Everything is perfect. There is no question of inconvenience. You live according to the direction of Bhagavad-gita; there is no question of scarcity, inconvenience, overpopulation. Everything is made.

Amogha: Due to the propaganda, people take it for granted, “Yes, there is overpopulation. Yes, there is lack of food. There is starvation, this and that.”
Prabhupada: Because they cannot manage, so they give some other cause.
Amogha: Yeah. They blame it on nature.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Amogha: But they don’t know that nature’s arrangement is perfect.
Paramahamsa: They spend billions of dollars to try to go in space, but they don’t spend that money for food.
Prabhupada: Jaya, thank you, jaya.

Devotee: In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says He creates the four varnas and asramas, so these four classes of men are everywhere. I was just wondering if it is correct to say that each man only finds his satisfaction performing a particular type of work according to his mode of nature? Is that correct?

Prabhupada: Yes, yes.

Devotee: For instance, a man who is in the mode of passion like a ksatriya, he only finds satisfaction when he’s engaged in warfare or administrative work. Similarly so with a vaisya or a sudra…

Prabhupada: Yes. I think it is… Maybe it is described in Seventeenth Chapter. According to our free will, we are associating with certain type of the modes of material nature, and then we become subjected to that material modes. The same example: you infect some disease, contamination, and you gain the result of it. So our endeavor should be how to raise ourself to the first, to the sattva-guna. That we can do. And then transcend sattva-guna and reach the spiritual platform. Everyone is trying to improve his position, but they do not know what is meant by improvement. Improvement means mostly they are in tamo-guna, ignorance. So rise from tamo-guna to rajo- guna, rajo-guna to sattva-guna, and then sattva-guna to transcendence. That is improvement. So generally, people are suffering on account of association with tamo-guna and rajo-guna, whole material world, mostly tamo-guna and few of them in rajo- guna. The symptoms of rajo-guna and tamo-guna are lust and greediness. Just like yesterday you told me the students are talking about homosex. That means tamo-guna, that the education— students, they are discussing about homosex. That means tamo- guna, lusty desires, very prominent, and how to fulfill, by homosex or sex with woman. This is their subject matter, kama. So everyone in this material world infected with this tamo-guna, all lusty desires, in various ways, varieties. And some of them in rajo-guna—politics and improvement of material condition. So we have to cut down this tamo-guna and rajo-guna, come to the sattva-guna. Then he’ll not be disturbed by these lusty desires and greediness. Then he’ll be happy. Sthita-sattve prasidati. When he comes to the sattva-guna, now he has to make further progress, sattva-guna. And the progress means, being situated in sattva-guna if he advances in devotional service, Krsna consciousness, then he surpasses all the material qualities. That is perfection of life.

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