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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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In your country there are many persons, they don’t want to do anything anymore, material activities—confused, frustrated. But there is no specific duty for them. That is not good. To stop material activities, that is the defect of void philosophy and impersonal philosophy. To stop this material work is good, but where is the positive engagement? Unless you have got positive engagement, you cannot stop yourself. You become mad. The same word that Shah Jahan said that, "I was emperor. I was acting as the supreme person in the empire. Now you are stopping me, then I shall become mad.".
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[[Vanisource:690122 - Lecture BG 05.01-02 - Los Angeles|690122 - Lecture BG 05.01-02 - Los Angeles]]
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When Shah Jahan was arrested by the order of Aurangzeb, Shah Jahan became mad, "Aurangzeb, what you are doing? You are arresting me? You kill me." So the son said, Aurangzeb, "Well, I have killed my brothers, but I will not kill my father. But you are arrested. You cannot go out of this fort, Agra fort." So he became mad, that "I was emperor. I was ordering, and you stopped my work. Then I shall become mad. Better kill me." Just try to understand.

So similarly, we stop to . . . we want to stop these material activities. Just like in your country there are many persons, they don’t want to do anything anymore, material activities—confused, frustrated. But there is no specific duty for them. That is not good. To stop material activities, that is the defect of void philosophy and impersonal philosophy. To stop this material work is good, but where is the positive engagement? Unless you have got positive engagement, you cannot stop yourself. You become mad. The same word that Shah Jahan said that, "I was emperor. I was acting as the supreme person in the empire. Now you are stopping me, then I shall become mad."

So simply stopping material activities, and if there is no spiritual activity, then he will be mad just like . . . Shah Jahan. So there must be some spiritual activities. You cannot stop. Just like a child: child is playing. If you stop his playing, you must give him some engagement, immediately, some good engagement; otherwise he will become dull and nonsense. He’ll play havoc.
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