Message of Godhead, Chapter 2 — “Factually, also, in no country other than India have the great sages endeavored so much for the realization of the spirit self. It is admitted that in the Western countries the people have done their best to advance in the culture of material science, centered on the material body and mind.
But it is admitted, also, that notwithstanding all such advancement of material knowledge in the West, the people in general there are suffering the pangs of the poisonous effects of materialism because they have cared very little for the culture of spiritual science. Great thinkers in the Western countries must therefore look to the people of India if the message of Godhead, of genuine spiritualism, is to reach their ears.
Therefore, in Bhagavad-gita, Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, has elaborately discussed karma-yoga, work with transcendental results, to douse the fire of materialism and brighten the future of humankind. There is a great difference between work for material gain and work with transcendental results.
In many places throughout Bhagavad-gita, the Personality of Godhead mentions the word buddhi-yoga, or intelligence with transcendental results. And by this word buddhi-yoga we can also understand transcendental, devotional activities.
For the Personality of Godhead says that He always favors His devotees by endowing them with the intelligence to perform devotional activities, so that at the end His devotees may attain to Him. In other places, also, it is said that God is attainable only through devotional activities.
We can get rid of the results of our work only by the intelligent process of work with transcendental results. Full Chapter
pamho agtACBSP
There’s a saying that the orient is lame and occident is blind. The truth nowadays is – by the degradation of kali yuga – both of them are blind.
Prabhupada: “Blind man, lame man. One man is blind, another man is lame. Both of them are useless. But when they combine, the blind man takes the lame man on his shoulder, and the lame man gives direction to the blind man, “Go this way. Go this way.”
So he walks. So both of them are benefited. So America has got money but blind. And India has got culture but lame. So let us combine. Then things will be done very nice. Andha-pangu-nyaya. Just like I am the same man.
I was finding difficulty to start this mission in India, very, very difficult. With great hardship I published three books. But as soon as I went America, the andha-pangu-nyaya became successful. So this is the the position.”
Better to live in a lost village of the Vraja Mandala area where one can free himself from material attachment and to give an example of simple living so that others can take up the mercy of the best pure devotee, HDG ACBSP ki jaya,
ys seva das
haribol