Srila Prabhupada;
"The nature of the material world is that so much fighting goes on between nation and nation, person and person, community and community. Despite so many legal codes, people fight with one another. The United Nations was created to stop fighting between nations. But what is the United Nations? I have already explained many times: It is an assembly of barking dogs. That’s all. “United” Nations—they will never unite. They will go there and bark. Many times we have seen nations show their enviousness there.
In the Bhagavad-gita (5.29) Krishna says sarva-loka-maheshvaram: “I am the proprietor of all planets.” But we are claiming, “This is my country,” “This is India, my country,” “This is my Pakistan,” “This is my America,” “This is my Russia”—and fighting. One group claims proprietorship of some land, and another group says, “This is not yours. It is ours.”
Despite the United Nations, such fighting still goes on. Why? Ananta-duhkham ca na veda mudhah: People create unlimited misery for themselves, but they do not know it. People are rascals. They claim rights to property and they fight.
They are forced to do it because they have been placed in the material world, which creates a condition of suffering. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita (7.14) daivi hy esha gunamayi mama maya duratyaya: “This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome.” I have given this example many times: In school the teacher engages two naughty boys to grab and pull each other’s ears. Similarly, nature engages souls in the material world. People have manufactured ugra-karma—”horrible works”—for the annihilation of this world. Russia has the nuclear weapon, and the Americans too. They are looking for the opportunity to drop the bomb here and there, and everything will be destroyed. People do not know the aim of life. They engage in ugra-karma and create enmity.
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.9.43) Prahlada Maharaja has said, shoce tato vimukha-cetasah: “I am simply concerned for these rascals.”As a Vaishnava, a devotee of the Lord, Prahlada Maharaja has no problems. A devotee will be satisfied if he has the opportunity to read and reciteSrimad-Bhagavatam anywhere, in any part of the world, even sitting underneath a tree. One who has education can read Srimad-Bhagavatam. But even if one has no education and cannot read, still he has no problem. He can chant: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. He can enjoy anywhere."
In the Bhagavad-gita (5.29) Krishna says sarva-loka-maheshvaram: “I am the proprietor of all planets.” But we are claiming, “This is my country,” “This is India, my country,” “This is my Pakistan,” “This is my America,” “This is my Russia”—and fighting. One group claims proprietorship of some land, and another group says, “This is not yours. It is ours.”
Despite the United Nations, such fighting still goes on. Why? Ananta-duhkham ca na veda mudhah: People create unlimited misery for themselves, but they do not know it. People are rascals. They claim rights to property and they fight.
They are forced to do it because they have been placed in the material world, which creates a condition of suffering. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita (7.14) daivi hy esha gunamayi mama maya duratyaya: “This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome.” I have given this example many times: In school the teacher engages two naughty boys to grab and pull each other’s ears. Similarly, nature engages souls in the material world. People have manufactured ugra-karma—”horrible works”—for the annihilation of this world. Russia has the nuclear weapon, and the Americans too. They are looking for the opportunity to drop the bomb here and there, and everything will be destroyed. People do not know the aim of life. They engage in ugra-karma and create enmity.
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.9.43) Prahlada Maharaja has said, shoce tato vimukha-cetasah: “I am simply concerned for these rascals.”As a Vaishnava, a devotee of the Lord, Prahlada Maharaja has no problems. A devotee will be satisfied if he has the opportunity to read and reciteSrimad-Bhagavatam anywhere, in any part of the world, even sitting underneath a tree. One who has education can read Srimad-Bhagavatam. But even if one has no education and cannot read, still he has no problem. He can chant: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. He can enjoy anywhere."
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