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Visnu Murti at 18:42, 13 December 2008

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[[Category:Material]]

[[Category:Comforts]]

[[Category:Material and Spiritual]]

== Bhagavad-gita As It Is ==

=== BG Preface and Introduction ===

'''People in general, especially in this Age of Kali, are enamored by the external energy of Kṛṣṇa, and they wrongly think that by advancement of material comforts every man will be happy.'''

<span class="BG-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:BG Preface|BG Preface]]:''' People in general, especially in this Age of Kali, are enamored by the external energy of Kṛṣṇa, and they wrongly think that by advancement of material comforts every man will be happy. They have no knowledge that the material or external nature is very strong, for everyone is strongly bound by the stringent laws of material nature. A living entity is happily the part and parcel of the Lord, and thus his natural function is to render immediate service to the Lord.

=== BG Chapters 1 - 6 ===

'''If economic development and material comforts could drive away one's lamentations for family, social, national or international inebrieties, then Arjuna would not have said that even an unrivaled kingdom on earth or supremacy like that of the demigods in the heavenly planets would be unable to drive away his lamentations.'''

<span class="BG-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:BG 2.8|BG 2.8, Purport]]:''' If economic development and material comforts could drive away one's lamentations for family, social, national or international inebrieties, then Arjuna would not have said that even an unrivaled kingdom on earth or supremacy like that of the demigods in the heavenly planets would be unable to drive away his lamentations. He sought, therefore, refuge in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and that is the right path for peace and harmony. Economic development or supremacy over the world can be finished at any moment by the cataclysms of material nature.

'''There are different grades of material comforts.'''

<span class="BG-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:BG 4.31|BG 4.31, Purport]]:''' There are different grades of material comforts in different heavenly planets, and in all cases there is immense happiness for persons engaged in different kinds of yajña. But the highest kind of happiness that a man can achieve is to be promoted to the spiritual planets by practice of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. A life of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is therefore the solution to all the problems of material existence.

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Vanibot: Vanibot #0019: LinkReviser - Revised links and redirected them to the de facto address when redirect exists

Visnu Murti at 18:42, 13 December 2008