DO NOT BE AN ASS

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Why is a man given a better chance

to live than swine or other animals? Why is a highly posted

government officer given better facilities for a comfortable life

than an ordinary clerk? The answer is very simple: the important officer

has to discharge duties of a more responsible nature than those of an

ordinary clerk. Similarly, the human being has to discharge higher duties

than the animals, who are always busy with filling their hungry

stomachs. But by the laws of nature, the modern animalistic standard of

civilization has only increased the problems of filling the stomach.

When we approach some of these polished animals for spiritual life, they say

that they only want to work for the satisfaction of their stomachs and that

there is no necessity of inquiring about the Godhead.

 

Yet despite their eagerness to work hard, there is always the question of

unemployment and so many other impediments incurred by the laws of nature.

Despite this, they still denounce the necessity of

acknowledging the Godhead. We are given this human form of life

not just to work hard like the swine or dog, but to attain the

highest perfection of life. If we do not want that perfection, then we will have

to work very hard, for we will be forced to by the laws of nature. In the

closing days of Kali-yuga (this present age) men will have to work hard like

asses for only a scrap of bread. This process has already begun, and every year

the necessity for harder work for lesser wages will increase. Yet human beings

are not meant to work hard like animals, and if a man fails to discharge his

duties as a human being, he is forced to transmigrate to the lower species of

life by the laws of nature. The Bhagavad-gita very vividly describes how a

spirit soul, by the laws of nature, takes his birth and gets a suitable body and

sense organs for enjoying matter in the material world. In the Bhagavad-gita it

is also

stated that those who attempt but do not complete the path of

approaching God--in other words, those who have failed to achieve complete

success in Krsna consciousness--are given the chance to appear in the families

of the spiritually advanced or in financially well-to-do mercantile families. If

the unsuccessful spiritual aspirants are offered such chances of noble

parentage, what of

those who have actually attained the required success? Therefore an attempt to

go back to Godhead, even if half finished, guarantees a good birth in the next

life. Both the spiritual and the financially well-todo families are beneficial

for spiritual progress because in both families one can get a good chance to

make further progress from the point where he stopped in his

previous birth. In spiritual realization the atmosphere generated by a good

family is favorable for the cultivation of spiritual knowledge.

The Bhagavad-gita reminds such fortunate well-born persons that

their good fortune is due to their past devotional activities.

Unfortunately, the children of these families do not consult the Bhagavad-gita,

being misguided by maya (illusion).

 

Birth in a well-to-do family solves the problem of having to find sufficient

food from the beginning of life, and later a comparatively easier and more

comfortable way of life can be led. Being so situated, one has a good chance to

make progress in spiritual realization, but as ill luck would have it, due to

the

influence of the present iron age (which is full of machines and

mechanical people) the sons of the wealthy are misguided for sense

enjoyment, and they forget the good chance they have for spiritual

enlightenment. Therefore nature, by her laws, is setting fires in these golden

homes. It was the golden city of Lanka, under the regime of the demoniac Ravana,

that was burned to ashes. That is the law of nature.

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JAI SRI KRISHAN ,JAI SRI RAM

 

 

>com, Pranjal Johry <pranjal_johry wrote:

> Why is a man given a better chance

 

I think Sir ji you are talking on three different planes , and

perhaps you are thinking that they are same.

 

one plane is animal plane who do not have intellect , but they work

on natural instinct only

 

second plane is about human beings , who have intellect

 

 

third plane is about enlightened people

 

 

responsibility is a different issue and enlightenment is different

issue. Lord Sri Krishan also said in Srimad Bhagwad Geeta that any

one can get enlightenment weather

kshtriya ,vaisya ,sudra ,stri ,chandal,..........

 

in general i am taking officer AS Brahman and clerk is Sudra. the

kind of work for enlightenment does not matter , but what matters is

the how one perform the work and what is his purpose for performing

the work or duties.

 

please reply

 

 

HARE KRISHAN ,HARE KRISHAN ,KRISHAN KRISHAN ,HARE HARE

HARE RAM ,HARE RAM ,RAM RAM ,HARE HARE

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Dear Friend,

You are right that when we are on the material platform we have to work to at

least make a living. What I want to say is that in this Kali Yuga everybody is

simply engrossed in ugra-karma just for the satisfaction of tounge, belly &

genitals. The Kali has made people in to machines that they do not spare time

for chanting the holy names HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE/

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE.

Ok I understand that in the beginning one has to work for Krishna in Krishna

consciousness ( Karma Yoga) and offer a part of the fruits of his work to his

Vaishnava Guru so that they can be utilized for spreading Krishna Consciousness

in this world. But if the person just keeps working and does not chant the HAre

krishna Mahamantra his Karma , Yoga Or Gyan will not yield any satisfactory

results.

In my message I'm not condemniing Karma but condemning Ugra karma without

Krishna Consciousness.

Hare Krishna

Pranjal Johry

 

 

 

jitendra kumar <jtin_ja

 

 

JAI SRI KRISHAN ,JAI SRI RAM

 

 

I think Sir ji you are talking on three different planes , and

perhaps you are thinking that they are same.

[Guest guest]

JAI SRI KRISHAN ,JAI SRI RAM

What I want to say is that in this Kali Yuga everybody is simply

engrossed in ugra-karma just for the satisfaction of tounge, belly &

genitals. The Kali has made people in to machines that they do not

spare time for chanting the holy names HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA

KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE/ HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE.

>

Thanks Sir ji

 

i got your explanation , and that is beautifull ,

 

 

HARE KRISHAN ,HARE KRISHAN ,KRISHAN KRISHAN ,HARE HARE,HARE RAM ,HARE

RAM ,RAM RAM ,HARE HARE