Total Collapse of the World Civilization

Right now we are living in a world that is completely dedicated to material sense gratification. As this society becomes more and advanced technologically, it is becoming more and more Godless. This is the result of taking God as as an agent for providing our sense gratification instead of that supreme person unto whom we must fully surrender ourselves. People will think, "Since our goal is sense gratification, and we can get it simply through technological advancement, what is the need for God?" Thus the disease of the material civilization is that they want the kingdom of God without God. But they cannot have it. They do not realize that all of their material necessities are being supplied by God at every minute. By their grossly sinful activities, such as massive cow killing and baby killing, they are quickly burning off the results of their past pious activities. This means that very soon unless there is drastic reversal of the status quo there will be a total collapse of the entire world civilization.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Contradictory Philosophies?

Lord Krishna says that evil should be destroyed. And Jesus says that He comes to the earth to rescue the sinners. As a Vaishnava, a devotee of Krishna, I am tormented between the above two philosophies. Please do educate me in this regard and excuse me if this question is offensive.

Nirmala

Answer: No Contraction

There is no contradiction between these two philosophies. In the previous age known as the Dvapara Yuga, when the earth's atmosphere was much more pious, Krishna personally killed the demons to relieve the earth from her tortuous burden.

In this present sinful age of Kali when Krishna appeared as Lord Caitanya He was about to personally kill two demons named Jagai and Madhai who had offended Lord Nityananda. However, Lord Nityananda pleaded to Lord Caitanya to spare them because in this age everyone is sinful like those rascals. Lord Nityananda explained that if the Lord's agenda in this age were to kill the demons, He would have to kill everyone. Therefore in this age instead of killing the demons Krishna in His most merciful form as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, rescues us by killing the sinfulness in our hearts through the wide scale introduction of the Nama sankirtan movement, the congregational chanting of the Holy Names of God.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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