EARLY PRABHUPADA - Atheists God's Delivery Boys

[gHari 0]

This is from an early essay by Srila Prabhupada, the rest of which is in the 'World' section under the article titled 'Krsna Arranges for Planet to Protect Bharata'. I didn't see this joke coming, and laughed so loud the silence became deafening:

The present day civilization is trying to avoid this God-consciousness of human life by artificial method of material science and forcible atheism. It is learnt from reliable sources that in an atheistic state, the village people were called in a meeting and were asked to pray in the church for daily bread. The innocent villagers prayed in the church for daily bread, and when the prayer was over the state officers asked them whether breads were supplied. The village men replied that there was no bread. The atheist politicians asked them again to pray for bread from them (the statesmen) and bread was at once supplied. And by this method the innocent villagers were made victims of propaganda by atheistic politicians with the result that all the villagers became gradually faithless in God, because wrongly they accepted that the bread was supplied by the politicians and not by God.

 

The poor victims of such propaganda did not understand that the breads supplied by the politicians were not made by the father of the politicians but actually they were sent by God. No politician can manufacture bread without wheat. No wheat is produced without sun rays or rains from the sky. No rains are possible without obedience to God. No atheist can live and decry God without eating bread. And therefore whoever eats bread without acknowledging in gratitude of his indebtedness to God is certainly a demon and for such demons the stringent natural laws are meant for punishment. A time is nearing when there will be no wheat paddy in the field and no politician will be able to make a quick supply of bread. The food problem is already acute.

 

The atheistic civilization is to be troubled more and more with the progress of materialism. We have such foretellings in the pages of SrImad-BhAgavatam. The more the people are turning to the atheistic, the more things of disturbing elements do appear before us. And that is the thing which matters at present. This is a wrong type of civilization.

 

 

It seems that God answered their prayers even before they said them, only using the demons as delivery boys.

 

 

[This message has been edited by gHari (edited 12-30-2001).]