Is the World Running Out of Resources?

The rapidly expanding and developing world civilization is in a predicament. Acute shortages of all varieties are being predicted: food shortage, water shortage, petroleum shortage, and the list goes on and on. If one studies the statistics of supply and demand, it become obvious that the world civilization is heading for a disaster of unprecedented magnitude. However, what the foolish people don't realize is that the earth is withholding her resources because they have become too sinful. If they can simply learn how to live in harmony with the governing principles of the universe and the supreme governor of all existence, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there will be sufficient resources to comfortably maintain even ten times the current world population.

Arrival in Kaunas, Lithuania-24 April 2012

Sankarshan Das Arrival in Kaunas, Lithuania

Sankarshan Das Arrival in Kaunas, Lithuania

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: What is a Devotee's Recreation?

According to Bhagavad-gita "He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system." Please tell me what is meant by recreation as I thought that for a neophyte devotee recreation is prohibited.

Gautam

Answer: Chanting and Dancing

Devotees are not interested in material recreational activities such as cinema, sports, television, restaurants, etc. because they are deriving unlimited bliss from their superior spiritual recreation, namely chanting and dancing. Such renunciation of material recreation is not dry or artificial because when one gets a higher taste he automatically loses his taste for low class things.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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