I have seen in Moscow, you cannot get any fruit, you cannot get any rice, you cannot get wheat. You can get only flesh, meat. And milk is available. These things. So now already it has begun, and ultimately, as the Kali-yuga advances and people become very much advanced in denying the existence of God, nirākāra, these things will come. Wait for that punishment. Durbhikṣa, anāvṛṣṭyā durbhikṣa-kara-pīḍitāḥ (SB 12.2.9). And as soon as there will be scarcity of food, the government men will take advantage of it: "Now we have to supply food." "Where is food?" "No, you give me money, we shall purchase from, import." The taxation. One side, I am suffering—no food. Another side—whatever money I have got, it will be taken by taxation. Now see what is your position. The position will be, people will become mad, so much troubled. Ācchinna-dāra-draviṇā yāsyanti giri-kānanam (SB 12.2.8). People will be so much harassed that voluntarily they will give up their family, home and go to the forest for place. This will be done. Don’t think that Krishna consciousness is a joke, is a jugglery. It is the only remedy if you want to save yourself. Otherwise you are doomed! Don’t take it, I mean to say, as a joke. It is a fact.
So best thing is that, kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ (SB 12.3.51). There is one very nice opportunity. What is that opportunity? kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51). If you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya . . . You cannot say any other-sivasya, kālisya. No. Kṛṣṇasya. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ (SB 7.5.23) Not that any name, any, my whimisical name. No! Just like so many fools and rascals say that you can chant any name. No, śāstra says śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ. Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya, that is wanted. Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet. If you take this process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, then you will be free from all these disturbances. You will be free. It is not pride but it is a fact. Just like in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we have got so much expenditure. In New York we are spending twelve lakhs of rupees alone per month. So there we have got . . . This morning I was calculating. We have got twenty five lakhs of rupees expenditure per month, all over the world. But we have no anxiety. That is practical. We have no anxiety. One man who has got to spend twenty five rupees he has got anxiety. But we have to spend twenty five lakhs of rupees but we have no anxiety because we have taken shelter of Kṛṣṇa. Mā śucaḥ. Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja, ahaṁ tvāṁ mokṣayiṣyāmi sarva-pāpebhyaḥ (BG 18.66).