Prabhupada tells a cartoon story
June 22, 2012 in Articles, Damaghosa Dasa
740524r2.rom Conversations Prabhupada: There was a cartoon. When I… One leader is approached for food, that “We are in scarcity of food.” The leader says, “Of course, it is very difficult to assure you for food grains. But from next week you will have television.” (laughter) Next week you will have television. So these improvements are going on, television, but they are starving. This is going on. Advancement of knowledge and learning is going on in discovering television, but there is no food. This is the mismanagement of the leaders. Dishonest. There is enough food. Punjab still produces food grains. Bengal still produces rice, but they are stocked by government men, and they are mishandling. They are lying on the station for dispatch, but they will not be dispatched. They are rotting. Rainy season spoiled the whole stock; still, they are not dispatched. Official: “There is no dispatch order. There is no wagons available.” Simply mismanagement or bribe. This is going on. And people are suffering.
…Somebody approached some politician, and he said, “Yes, I know there is food problem. So I cannot say what can I do for you, but from next week, you will have television.” This is their program, “From next week you will have television.” As if television will minimize my hunger. This is the civilization. Hare Krsna. So you ask problem, I will answer. Your energy, problems of energy, petrol, it will be automatically solved. If we are localized, there is no question of petrol.
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Hare Krsna to all
Pranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
The above tells the story of kali yuga-because we are so “machine oriented” practically everyone is forgetting the basic necessities of life-like FOOD !!
I just read today an article about a study asking people how they would value losing their cell phones.
The reply was that most of them would rather not have sex than lose their cell phones. Others replied they would rather lose their wedding rings or wallet than their cell phones.
This is how attachment works.
