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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Of course, we do not want to criticize, but according to śāstra, people will suffer more and more. And they must suffer. Because they are becoming godless, they must suffer. That is nature's punishment. They won't take the real culture given by God Himself, Kṛṣṇa, "Do like this." Therefore they are godless. They must suffer.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with M.P., Shri Sita Ram Singh -- May 19, 1977, Vrndavana|Conversation with M.P., Shri Sita Ram Singh -- May 19, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Ghee, first-class ghee, we were purchasing, one rupee, Vardwa(?) ghee. Now what is the price of ghee?</p>
<p>Indian man (1): Twenty-five.</p>
<p>Sita Ram Singh: Twenty rupees.</p>
<p>Indian man (1): Twenty, twenty-five. Between twenty and twenty-five, depending upon the place.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That means between twenty-five to thirty times, the price has increased. But income has not increased.</p>
<p>Indian man (1): Not in the real sense.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No sense. All nonsense.</p>
<p>Indian man (1): No sense not at all.</p>
<p>Sita Ram Singh: No sense. No sense at all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Simply nonsense. So what is remedy? Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). All over the world... Of course, we do not want to criticize, but according to śāstra, people will suffer more and more. And they must suffer. Because they are becoming godless, they must suffer. That is nature's punishment.</p>
:daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī
:mama māyā duratyayā
:mām eva ye prapadyante
:māyām etāṁ taranti te
:([[Vanisource:BG 7.14|BG 7.14]])
<p>They won't take the real culture given by God Himself, Kṛṣṇa, "Do like this." Therefore they are godless. They must suffer. Now the suffering is awaiting to the general mass of people. Durbhikṣa... Anāvṛṣṭi-durbhikṣa-kara-pīḍitāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 12.2.9|SB 12.2.9]]). There will be no rain from the sky, and therefore there will be no sufficient grains. Anāvṛṣṭi-durbhikṣa. And in the name of improving the situation, government will tax. Kara-pīḍitāḥ. In this way, so the people in general, they'll be so much harassed that, without being able to manage things... Ācchinna-dāra-draviṇā gacchanti giri-kānanam. "Let whatever I may have to the family eating. Let me go." This is the position.</p>
<p>Sita Ram Singh: What will be the future of India?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Anywhere. Why you are speaking of India? What is spoken in the śāstra, that is not for India or for Bihar. It is for everywhere.</p>
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