Massive freeway pileup: “..But then they are smashed and again melted and again crushed”
Tamala Krsna, June 28, 1977, Vrndavana: […]The cars.
Prabhupada: Whole cars, useless, piled up. But then they are smashed and again melted and again crushed.
Satadhanya: They build them so that in one year, two years, they break. Then they can sell more.
Prabhupada: Because they have no other business. Punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30] Chewing the chewed. Make a car, break it, and again melt it and again make another car. That’s all. This is their civilization, car-making civilization. No spiritual idea, no ambition for spiritual life. But they’ll do. They’ll do something. So therefore they are making, breaking more. Make the car; break the car; again make the car; again break the car. Therefore you are habituated to change. Full Conversation
Hare Krsna Dear Prabhus,
And these rascal ‘proof-readers’ dare to edit and change Srila Prabhupada & Krsna’s perfect literature!
Yfs, Bal.
Prabhupāda: “Sometimes I become surprised how I have written this. Although I am the writer, still sometimes I am surprised how these things have come. Such vivid description. Where is such literature throughout the whole world? It is all Kṛṣṇa’s mercy. EVERY LINE IS PERFECT.”
dehāpatya-kalatrādiṣv
ātma-sainyeṣv asatsv api
teṣāṁ pramatto nidhanaṁ
paśyann api na paśyati
[SB 2.1.4]
“Persons devoid of ātma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life, being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body, children, wife, etc. Although sufficiently experienced, still they do not see their inevitable destruction.”
Prabhupāda: What is the purport?
Upendra:
This material world is called the world of death. Every living being, beginning from Brahmā, whose duration of life is some thousands of millions of years, down to the germs who live for a few seconds only, is struggling for existence. Therefore, this life is a sort of fight with material nature, which imposes death upon all. In the human form of life, a living being is competent enough to come to an understanding of this great struggle for existence, but being too attached to family members, society, country, etc., he wants to win over the invincible material nature by the aid of bodily strength, children, wife, relatives, etc. Although he is sufficiently experienced in the matter by dint of past experience and previous examples of his deceased predecessors, he does not see that the so-called fighting soldiers like the children, relatives, society members and countrymen are all fallible in the great struggle. One should examine the fact that his father or his father’s father has already died, and that he himself is therefore also sure to die, and similarly, his children, who are the would-be fathers of their children, will also die in due course. No one will survive in this struggle with material nature. The history of human society definitely proves it, yet the foolish people still suggest that in the future they will be able to live perpetually, with the help of material science. This poor fund of knowledge exhibited by human society is certainly misleading, and it is all due to ignoring the constitution of the living soul. This material world exists only as a dream, due to our attachment to it. Otherwise, the living soul is always different from the material nature. The great ocean of material nature is tossing with the waves of time, and the so-called living conditions are something like foaming bubbles, which appear before us as bodily self, wife, children, society, countrymen, etc. Due to a lack of knowledge of self, we become victimized by the force of ignorance and thus spoil the valuable energy of human life in a vain search after permanent living conditions, which are impossible in this material world.
Our friends, relatives and so-called wives and children are not only fallible, but also bewildered by the outward glamor of material existence. As such, they cannot save us. Still we think that we are safe within the orbit of family, society or country.
The whole materialistic advancement of human civilization is like the decoration of a dead body. Everyone is a dead body flapping only for a few days, and yet all the energy of human life is being wasted in the decoration of this dead body. Śukadeva Gosvāmī is pointing out the duty of the human being after showing the actual position of bewildered human activities. Persons who are devoid of the knowledge of
ātma-tattva are misguided, but those who are devotees of the Lord and have perfect realization of transcendental knowledge are not bewildered.
Prabhupāda:
Sometimes I become surprised how I have written this. Although I am the writer, still sometimes I am surprised how these things have come. Such vivid description. Where is such literature throughout the whole world? It is all Kṛṣṇa’s mercy. Every line is perfect.
Tamala Krsna: The purports are as nice as the ślokas.
Prabhupāda: It is explained in this way.
Tamala Krsna: Śrīla Prabhupāda, it’s 7:30 now. [break]
Dear Webmaster prabhu,
Many thanks for posting this conversation containing a special gem… ‘EVERY LINE IS PERFECT’
Note: Prabhus, if you read the full conversation, you will find the above quoted section about half way through.
Yfs, Balaram das.
Ford make some of the most dangerous cars in the world! The Mustang is a death trap! …overpowered and lethal. If you have a ‘death wish’ this is the car for you …take is out onto the freeway, and ‘ring it’s neck!’ (don’t forget to chant Hare Krishna!) they will be scraping your remains off the freeway in no-time!
The 70s Ford Pinto had the petrol tank too far back and would explode (if rear-ended) on impact. Ford could have saved many lives by adding a part (which cost $1.00) but it declined, preferring dozens to die a horrible death….being burnt alive! I wonder if he (Ambarish) gives this example in his “Responsible Corporate Leadership Courses?” But anyway he is a “Hindu” (whatever that means?) and represents the Ford Foundation (corporate tax avoidance) and not a Vaisnava!
The Ford Bronco SUV (aptly named) as this piece of junk could ‘roll over’ doing only 30 KPH, especially in an ‘S’ manouver, such as going through a ’roundabout’…..but they refused to correct this for years, resulting in many deaths…..Another example of “Corporate Responsibility!”