Shrila Prabhupada’s Grim Predictions for Kali Yuga:
Millions Will Be Unemployed
Shriman Siddhanta Das Prabhu’s “Memories” series (itvproductions.org) remains one of our all-time favorite mediums of understanding the many facets of the pure devotee. Through his interviews, we obtain glimpses of the Perfect Spiritual Master as reflected by each of the unique disciples. Siddhanta’s most recent DVD, number 50, contains an inspiring
conversation with a devotee called Rameshwara Das. In his talk, Rameshwara Das recounts a discussion with Prabhupada regarding the future of the world, one to which we are now bearing witness. This prophetic conversation advocating devotee self-sufficiency took place during a train ride to Prayag, in January of 1977. As you read these stunning predictions, bear in mind that, although the Acharya had been instructing us about the importance of Krishna conscious farm projects since New Vrindavana had been acquired in 1969, at the time of this conversation Divine Grace was mere months away from ending his manifest lila. Yet the World Prophet’s emphasis remained fixed and unchanged that varnashram agricultural communities will be the salvation of ISKCON’s devotees, and indeed the world. In these crucial times, the words of the prophet ring louder than ever. Rameshwara Das’ recollections (slightly edited for brevity) will be followed by the actual conversation.
From Memories DVD #50: “Shrila Prabhupada…talked about the coming of unemployment. We are seeing these bad economic times now. It’s 2009, almost 2010. Prabhupada was speaking about the progress of Kali Yuga. More and more, there will be unemployment. And we must be ready to take these unemployed people onto our farms. That is what Shrila Prabhupada said. We need farm communities that grow food because--he predicted this--one day millions of people will be coming to our Hare Krishna farms because they are unemployed. We must accept them. We must feed them. We must let them live there and they will become gradually spiritualized. We’ll put them to work. They will get their food--prasadam. They will hear about Krishna and they will gradually become devotees. This was Prabhupada’s prediction about Kali Yuga and the Krishna conscious farm communities. Amazing prediction and vision.”
Hard Times and Prabhupada’s Prophecies
(Recorded on a train to Prayaga, 11 January 1977)
His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada: (Looking out the window after the train has pulled out of the city) Now...we have come to the open field. How nice it is. And so long as we were passing through those congested areas -- hellish, simply hellish. And now here is open space. How nice it is!
Hari Sauri Das: To enter into a city is so imposing on your consciousness.
Prabhupada: Up to that point, simply rubbish, all papers thrown here and
there. People are living in... Now see here, how it is open and pleasing. Organize this farm project.
HSD: (Commenting on another speaker’s input) He's just saying that in the West one requires a great deal of capital. To start a farm, to get the land, you need a lot of money because land is very expensive. And also we have to use modern farming techniques because we have so few men to run the farms.
Prabhupada: No, you show example. People will do automatically. When the people find it is very nice, they will take.
HSD: Should we try to make an effort to have our householders go and live on the farms, a special effort? If it's ready to do that?
Prabhupada: Why householders? Everyone. (audibly chants Hare Krishna japa)
Rameshwara Das: In America there is a very big emphasis on getting people to join us by moving into our temples. The temple presidents are very eager to get as many people to move in as possible, but in the long run most people cannot come up to the standard.
Prabhupada: Therefore I am [advocating] farms.
RD: So they have to be encouraged to have a little bit of Krishna consciousness in their own home, make their home a temple.
Prabhupada: No, let them go to the farm, New Vrindaban.
RD: Many people... Most people in the world, they are grhamedhis, and they cannot give it up so easily.
Prabhupada: "No, you remain... Come here with your wife, children.
You remain grihamedhi."
Disciple: New Vrindaban is very austere. If we build little bungalows with modern convenience...
Prabhupada: Oh, yes.
Disciple: There has to be some modern convenience.
Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Then we shall do that.
RD: But for many people who live in the cities, they have their jobs already. They don't want to give it up... Say, in America, most people live in the cities, and they already have their job, and they are set in their ways.
Prabhupada: But you said that there is unemployment also.
RD: To a certain extent. But there are still 250,000,000 people. So most of them...
Prabhupada: So those who are unemployed, let them come to us. We shall give them employment.
RD: Yes. But for the mass population...
Prabhupada: Well, gradually you will increase and...
RD: We have to give them something that they can do in their home.
Prabhupada: Oh, yes.
RD: Because it is impractical to think that they will give up everything and move into the temple.
Prabhupada: No, those who are unemployed, let them come. We shall give them employment.
Disciple: On the farm.
Prabhupada: Yes.
RD: For those who are unemployed, that's attractive… Many people already have their jobs and their families.
Prabhupada: All right, let them not come, but those who are unemployed, let them come.
RD: But what...? For those people who already have their jobs, instead of...
Prabhupada: That job... They will be very soon jobless. Don't worry. (laughs) They will come. They will be obliged to come. Now they have got job, but as the days are advancing in Kali-yuga, they'll be jobless.
HSD: So we can expect that material conditions are going to become very much worse than this.
Prabhupada: They may become or not. We don't care for it. Let us establish an ideal society. That is the...
Disciple: If someone who is well-off wants to become a devotee, shall we encourage him to give up all of his material well-being or shall we ask him to instead put a temple in his house and encourage him how to make his house into a temple and make his whole family Krishna conscious?
Prabhupada: And what is your material well-being? Everyone is going hundred miles for well-being. Is that well-being? Either they may go by motorcar or by train... And as soon as there is -- what is called? -- bottle-neck, they become very much disturbed: "How to go to the office?" Where is well-being?
RD: Say, the Christian religion... The Christian religion has millions of followers.
Prabhupada: But what is the meaning of these followers? They do not
understand anything. Simply by rubber-stamp they are follower.
RD: But if we can get a mass following, it is only possible by preaching to them little bit at a time.
Prabhupada: Yes. By your ideal life, ideal teaching, you'll get. This Christian or any religion, what is the use of that? It's not at all religion. It's simply rubber-stamp...
RD: Many people think that if you become a Hare Krishna you have to shave your head.
Prabhupada: That is very good.
RD: But it scares them and it keeps them from joining us..
Prabhupada: No, you save so much barbers' expenses. (laughter) ·
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Patita Pavana das Adhikary
Here’s a message for you karmis,
Listen to me and weep,
Utopia will come crashing down,
What you planted you shall reap.
These are not times for songs of love,
Or how your sweetheart made you cry,
These are times when you must save yourself,
Time for action, do or die.
Can you hear the winds a-howlin’,
Whistling from o’er the hills,
Meteor showers scribe your fate,
You will die for what you’ve killed.
Back in 1939
When the Nazis were in power,
War was on the red horizon,
It was a fateful hour.
History repeats itself, my friend
Just have a look around;
Cameras watch you on every street,
FEMA camps outside the town.
While the shadowy Rahu stalks the Moon,
And the world must endure eclipse;
Your shopping malls and neighborhoods,
Will go down like sinking ships.
Politicians that you voted for
Will hide in cities ‘neath the ground,
Your neighbors will live like cannibals,
Food riots in every town.
Fast food culture has doomed your world,
Slaughter house bellies with corpses filled,
Yama rides slowly with his noose,
You’ll become what you have killed.
You have satisfied your senses,
A network of desires,
Your feet have trampled Nature’s laws
And your own hands lit the fires.
You have even whored your daughters,
Poisoned the air that you breathe;
Lied in the names of religion and science,
Till there’s nothing left to believe.
Your trucks will all be rusting,
With no gas what can they pull?
It was not wise to eat flesh of beasts,
You now need the cow and bull.
Your doom is fast approaching,
Much sooner than you think,
The bubble will be bursting
As quick as an eye can wink.
You’ve got one chance for survival,
You must only eat what you grow,
The food you place on the plate of God
Will come from the seeds you sow.
Get your fingernails dirty,
Dig your hands into the soil,
The Earth mother will maintain you,
As the world runs out of oil.
The flatterer is your enemy,
The truthful one is your friend,
Whoever guides you on the path of good,
Saves you when the world must end.
Rise up and come to your senses,
Bow down on the ground and pray,
Krishna’s name will save you,
And you’ll find no other way.
Refrain:
Fiery storms rain from cloudless skies,
Cities buried in a sea of mud,
Death flies from all directions
And you’ll drown in a flood of blood.
While Mother Earth is plowed by Dharma,
And Gomata chews on her cud,
There will be no hope for the cities,
As they drown in a flood of blood.
Radha and Krishnas holy names,
echo from the churches,
echo from the mosque
will be
sung by our children
as they start there day
at school,
Holy men walk freely
as they travel town to town.
bells will ring in every house
as prayers are offerd high,
Cows will carry garlands
we know now, they are loved.
Only distant memories
of life as it once was.
When selfish greed
and envy ruled
throughout the lands
of earth...
a change swept over
hearts were cleansed
krishnas names
a means to an end....
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna
Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
ys....madan