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Prabhupada, New York, September 14, 1966: […] At the present moment, you will find, 80% people, they are unfortunate. If we compare what is fortune or misfortune, then we’ll find, in every country, 80% people, they are unfortunate, and therefore this world is getting to Communism because they are fighting. They are fighting. So this is the condition of the present day.
How can you perform this such difficult process of yoga which was refused by Arjuna? That is my proposal. It is not possible. If you are attempting such difficult process in a pseudo way, then you can be satisfied in your own way, but you will never achieve success of the yoga system.
You must know it clearly. So yoga system is not possible in this age. If you want to prosecute any yoga system, this bhakti-yoga, Krishna consciousness, and chanting Hare Krishna… That is recommended in Vedic scripture, that is introduced by great authority like Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and you will find in the Bhagavad-gita,
mahatmanas tu mam partha daivim prakrtim asritah bhajanty ananya-manaso jnatva bhutadim avyayam [Bg. 9.13]
satatam kirtayanto mam yatantas ca drdha-vratah namasyantas ca mam bhaktya nitya-yukta upasate. [Bg. 9.14]
Satatam kirtayanto mam. Always glorifying, they are mahatmas. They are great souls. If you want to be great soul in terms of the Vedic literature, in terms of Bhagavad-gita, in terms of great saints and sages, then you have to adopt this Krishna consciousness and chanting of Hare Krishna. No other process will be possible. It is not impossible. Just imagine. A personality like Arjuna, with all facilities of life and five thousand years before the circumstances were different, and still, he denied.
So yoga system… Actually, if you simply making a show, showbottle of meditation, if you are satisfied, oh, that is a different thing. Make yourself a showbottle. But showbottle demonstration will not make you successful. It is clearly according to Bhagavad-gita. Showbottle demonstration will not make you successful. You have to be really bottle of medicine. Then it will cure. You know… Of course I… Here is not…
In India we have got some showbottles in the medicine shop. Some red water put into the big bottle and with electric light. That means advertisement: “Here is a bottle of medicine.” But that is a showbottle, red water. So red water will not cure the disease. You must have really, actually, a mixture, fever mixture. Full Lecture
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