The Solution for all Problems

When will the world leaders wake up and realize that they are on the wrong track? Their attempts to solve the world's problems are only touching the symptoms of the problems because they do not understand the one underlying cause for all the thousands and millions of problems that are troubling the human society.

The root cause of all difficulties is our false identification with the material body. Even though we are eternal spirit-souls in quality one with the supreme source of all existence, Krishna or God, we have foolishly misidentified ourselves with a rotting, dying bag of gross material elements known as the material body. Therefore it's no small wonder that no matter in what way we may try to enjoy this world, we are always in the final analysis left high and dry with a depressing sense of bewilderment and frustration. It's only when we reawaken our original but now dormant enlightened consciousness, our Krishna, consciousness that we become actually, factually genuinely satisfied.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How Can Mankind Survive?

Respected Sir,

There are many questions that the world now faces and need to be answered. As you have rightly pointed out: What will happen when the world will run out of oil?

Today the world is running at a breakneck speed for its own destruction, in the name of modernity and economic growth etc. The good science is used for immoral purposes. It has made men into extremely greedy, materialistic, money-oriented hypocrites. It has turned man away from the philosophical and religious path needed for peace. Man is forgetting God's mercy.

All people around the world have become utterly stupid & imbecile and have lost common sense. They get high degrees from universities but have no brain to think.

Earlier the society was agrarian and people were pure. Every one loved the other man. There was no hatred and no jealousy. Today the world is run by criminals. Here man kills man, man hates man, all because of money, not God. Man in general has become very sinful and impure. There are no intellectuals in today's world who can see the future and stand firm against such wrong path followed by the entire world. This is leading towards disaster. People are not calm , they are all running like mad and insane people.

Only two hundred years of useless industrialization in the USA and Europe practiced by only 200 -300 Million people, who are called consumers, has produced effects like global warming, filthy pollution like plastic bags and bottles, etc. Man today needs all kinds of gadgets like cars, TV's, telephones, computers, radios, watches, washing machines, tapes, CD's, still cameras, video cameras, films, mobile phones, electric lamps, electric fans, vacuum cleaners, office equipment, room heaters, room coolers, air conditioners, big industries, etc and so on and on .

Everything that we need to live a modern life comes from these money churning dirty industries that are polluting not only earth but also the purity of the human mind. Every one wants to be rich.

Now what will happen when the whole world of 6 billion people (or 12 billion people in next 15 years) starts consuming and polluting this earth the way America has preached? All the ice in Himalayas and Arctic will melt. How can man survive then? There will be no more rivers, no more trees. Only deserts will emerge everywhere. This dirty industrialization has produced atomic bombs to kill fellow human beings. Today one community hates other. Every nation intends to acquire atom bombs because without that they do not feel safe.

There are no more saintly people like Tolstoy, Gandhi, Thoreau, etc, and other noble western philosophers, in this world, to lead mankind anymore now. The Nobel Peace Prize is distributed for political purposes.

Where exactly the world is heading? What is the solution?

Regards,

Sabyasachi Chaudhuri

Answer: By the Guidance of Pure Devotees

Your analysis is in many ways correct. But in regards to saintly people, we require the guidance of those who are pure devotees of Lord Sri Krishna. Although great in many ways, neither Gandhi, Tolstoy, or Thoreau were in this category, therefore they could not effectively lead the world out of its ever more chaotic condition. However, if there can now arise on this planet a class of persons who are pure devotees of Lord Krishna, the entire world situation will be saved. Therefore we are requesting you to carefully study Bhagavad-gita as it is and mold your life strictly according to its principles.

We are willing to give you all help and guidance in this regard. The pure devotees of Krishna can inspire the entire world to adopt a new, more enlightened and more congenial lifestyle, which will evolve into a new world order that will last on this planet for 10,000 years.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari