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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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You cannot violate the nature's law. If you violate you become criminal, you become punished. Similarly, in the human society, civilized human society, there are principles, laws, one has to obey. Either you obey the scripture or you obey the state law—you have to obey. If you don't obey, then you are put into the jail.
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[[Vanisource:730211 - Lecture BG 03.36-37 - Melbourne|730211 - Lecture BG 03.36-37 - Melbourne]]
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Elephant can eat forty kilogram at a time. You cannot eat even one kilogram. So different persons, different living entities, they are different meant; they have got different body according to the nature's law. You cannot violate the nature's law. If you violate you become criminal, you become punished. Similarly, in the human society, civilized human society, there are principles, laws, one has to obey. Either you obey the scripture or you obey the state law—you have to obey. If you don't obey, then you are put into the jail. So this is going on. But Arjuna inquired a very intelligent question, that:

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:atha kena prayukto 'yaṁ
:pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ
:anicchann api vārṣṇeya
:balād iva niyojitaḥ 
:([[Vanisource:BG 3.36 (1972)|BG 3.36]])
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"My dear Kṛṣṇa, what is that power which forces us to commit sinful activities? I do not like." Sometimes . . . just like the vivid example: a thief. A thief knows that if he commits theft he will be punished by the state law. He has heard it from the lawyers, from friend, and he has heard it from the scripture. No religious scripture will say that "You go on stealing." No. Either it is Christian religion or Hindu religion, no religion will tell you that "You become a thief, you become a rogue, you become a sinful . . ." No. So scripture says that you don't become a thief. And the law says also that you don't become a thief. He has heard it. And he's seen it also. What is that? That a man who has stolen some property, others', he's arrested. The police is taking him to the custody; he's punished.
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