Save your time for Krsna consciousness. That is the program. Don't be implicated with sinful activities. Simple life

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"Save your time for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the program. Don't be implicated with sinful activities. Simple life"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So we have created a civilization simply working hard day and night, and the purpose is sense gratification. That's all. That is prohibited. Make your life simplified. Save your time for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the program. Don't be implicated with sinful activities. Simple life. Just like your father says, "My dear boy, you take your food just in time, and you do this work, and I'll be satisfied." If you do that, then father is satisfied. But if you take from the pocket of your father or from the cash box without his permission, then you are criminal.

690120 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Los Angeles

So Ṛṣabhadeva says, kaṣṭān kāmān. Just like we are not criticizing the modern method of living—of course, automatically it becomes criticized—but we are speaking from the śāstras. He says, Ṛṣabhadeva says, kaṣṭān kāmān. For your sense gratification do not arrange something very dangerous, or very tiresome, laborsome. Make your life simplified, that is allotted by Kṛṣṇa. We have got in . . . a place, New Vrindaban, in West Virginia. With little effort they produce so much vegetables that they cannot eat, they cannot finish. They cannot finish.

So God has given us land, God has given us producing experience, so wherever you live, it doesn't matter. If you have got a little plot of land and a cow, your whole economic question is solved. Why you should work so hard day and night?

So we have created a civilization simply working hard day and night, and the purpose is sense gratification. That's all. That is prohibited. Make your life simplified. Save your time for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the program. Don't be implicated with sinful activities. Simple life. Just like your father says, "My dear boy, you take your food just in time, and you do this work, and I'll be satisfied." If you do that, then father is satisfied. But if you take from the pocket of your father or from the cash box without his permission, then you are criminal.

So by God's arrangement, everything is there. Everything. Pūrṇam idam. Pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate (Īśopaniṣad, Invocation).

Everything is complete in this world. There is no scarcity. We have simply created scarcity by our mismanagement. But if we take up the laws as they are prescribed in the scriptures and live peacefully, there is no scarcity. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that in this world there is no scarcity by the arrangement of God. But the only scarcity is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. People are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, they're materially conscious—they're sensually conscious. That has to be changed.

So Ṛṣabhadeva says that to satisfy our senses, that is also available in the life of a hog. Kaṣṭān kāmān arhate yad viḍ-bhujāṁ (SB 5.5.1).