Worldwide Water Shortage

The United Nations has predicted that by the year 2025 two thirds of the world's population will suffer water shortages. That's only thirteen years from now. Nobody has been able to figure out of a solution. The future of planet earth is not very bright. But if the foolish world leaders will just listen to us, we can guide them how to put an end to all shortages by rectifying the greatest shortage of all, the lack of Krishna consciousness. If this greatest of all shortages is rectified, every other shortage will automatically be taken care of. Krishna confirms in the Bhagavad-gita that if there is regular wide-scale nama-sankirtana, the congregational chanting of the holy names of God, there will ample supply of rain all over the world to take care of the needs of everyone. So when will the leaders wake up and start listening to the message of Krishna?

Water Shortage in California, USA

Revealing the Solution for all the World's Problems
ISKCON Sanskrit Academy-Vrindavan Dhama, India
2 April 2012

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Why Do You Proudly Call Others Rascals?

Kindly pardon me for saying this. In some of the posts by you and other senior devotees words like “rascals” “nonsense people” “demons” are used to refer non-Vaishnavas, and you talk lowly of them. While I appreciate the spirit in the context, I feel that a true Vaishnava should treat all with respect. Why feel proud /superior of ourselves and see others as inferior? Every entity is Lord’s creation.

Highest Regards,
Jai

Answer: Krishna Calls Them Rascals, Not Us.

It is not that we declare anyone to be a rascal. Rather, we feel that it is we who are the rascals because even though we have been taught the philosophy of Krishna consciousness so nicely by Srila Prabhupada, we still have not fully surrendered ourselves at Krishna's lotus feet. But as souls who are sincerely trying to fully surrender ourselves to Krishna it is our duty to follow His instructions. Since the Lord declares in the Bhagavad-gita that those who do not surrender unto Him are rascals, and since He has ordered us to broadcast His teachings all over the world, it is our duty to humbly do so. Therefore we sometimes must point out the foolish, rascal nature of the materialists as I have done in today's Thought the Day by describing the world's leaders as fools.

Another point is that if you feel that it is wrong for us to correct others, it is an act of hypocrisy for you to correct us. If correcting is bad, why are you correcting us? If you have a right to correct, why we should not have the right to correct? This is not a philosophically sound position from which you making your point.

We have the highest respect for everyone, seeing every individual soul as part and parcel of Krishna. It is only out of love in an attempt to save them from the cycle of birth and death that we sometimes describe non-devotees as rascals. It is not at all done out of pride. Rather it is an act of compassion like a concerned loving parent scolding a naughty child.

Even though everyone is part of God's creation, it's not all one. There is a distinct difference between those are following Gods instructions and those who are neglecting His instructions. Unless a preacher makes such distinctions there is no way that he can train anyone how to attain the supreme perfection of going back to home, back to Godhead. Just as a doctor must distinguish between a sick man and healthy man, the preacher, in order to do his job properly, must make distinction between those who are obeying the Lord and those who are disobedient to the Lord.

The best thing is the of each of us should realize what rascals we are for having rebelled against the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We should now give up our rascaldom and fully surrender ourselves at the Lord's lotus feet.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari