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In India they have taken this point very seriously that, "India is now poverty-stricken. There is no question of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Europeans and Americans, they are now comfortable, so they can take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness." When I go to India, sometimes they speak like that, that "India does not require Kṛṣṇa consciousness,".
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[[Vanisource:720405 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Melbourne|720405 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Melbourne]]
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Comfortableness or uncomfortableness is not permanent, that the summer season does not continue permanently, neither the winter season continue permanently. It comes and goes. So there are so many things, they come and go. And being attached to so many things, I become comfortable or uncomfortable. Therefore Arjuna was advised that tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata. This material world is like that. Pains and pleasure, they come and go. They stay for some time but again go away. But we cannot give up our duty. That is not possible.

Sometimes people say that we are now . . . just like in India they have taken this point very seriously that, "India is now poverty-stricken. There is no question of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Europeans and Americans, they are now comfortable, so they can take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness." When I go to India, sometimes they speak like that, that "India does not require Kṛṣṇa consciousness," because they are in a very awkward position so far economic condition is there. But that is not the actual fact.

The other day, where? I think in Sydney. Some boy, present, he was . . . "We have to supply food to the hungry who are dying without food, in starvation." Then when I asked him, "How many men you have seen dying out of starvation?" he could not reply. He said: "No. I have not seen." Still, these are pleas that, "People are dying of starvation, people are dying naked." As soon as I ask: "How many people you have seen dying of starvation and naked?" the reply is "No. I have not seen."
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