We Dont Hate Any Material Advancement, We Can Utitlize Everything For Krsna's Service. Our Only Preaching Is Dont Forget Krsna

[Gavin Swinden]

(So we do not hate anything material advancement. We can utilize everything for Kṛṣṇa's service. Our only preaching is that "Don't forget Kṛṣṇa." That is our business)

 

"This, any material thing, is mithyā (false)." No. It has got some relationship with Kṛṣṇa. That is to be seen. What is that? What is this motorcar? It is material. But what is this material? Bhūmir āpaḥ analo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca, bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā (BG 7.4). Where they have got this metal?

 

This iron, wood, metal, everything, they have got from Kṛṣṇa. Therefore it has got relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Now, when it is manufactured, use it for Kṛṣṇa. That is yukta-vairāgya. So we do not hate anything material advancement. We can utilize everything for Kṛṣṇa's service. Our only preaching is that "Don't forget Kṛṣṇa." That is our business."

 

(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, April 18, 1975, Vrindavana)

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

Neither should one be so attached to a machine or AI, that one becomes their slave. Yukta vairagya, but we are not attached to temporary ways. Srila Prabhupada wanted NO machines at the New Vrndvana, Tennessee farm, etc. When it became too hard, he allowed some modern things. We are facing AIs which may be currently exterminating humanity. We have no access to oppose such immense danger ourselves, as our creation, so we fight the powers used against us, in a judo move, using computors. Maybe good AI's will win. Doubt it, though. chanting and we shall see.