18 Elevation to Krsna Consciousness

asa-pasa-satair baddhah
kama-krodha-parayanah

thante kama-bhogartham
anyayenartha-saficayan

“Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires,
by lust and anger, they secure money by illegal
means for sense gratification.” (Bg. 16.12)

Consequently, although there is no lack of money
in the world, there is a scarcity of peace. So much
human energy is being diverted to making money,
for the general population has increased its capacity
to make more and more dollars, but in the long run
the result is that this unrestricted and unlawful
monetary inflation has created a bad economy all
over the world and has provoked us to manufacture
huge and costly weapons to destroy the very result
of such cheap money-making. The leaders of the
big money-making countries are not really enjoying
peace but are making plans to save themselves from
imminent destruction by nuclear weapons. In fact,
huge sums of money are being thrown into the sea
by way of experiments with these dreadful weapons.
Such experiments are being carried out not only at
huge costs but also at the cost of many lives. In this
way the nations are being bound by the laws of
karma. When men are motivated by the impulse for
sense gratification, whatever money is earned is
spoiled, being spent for the destruction of the human
race. The energy of the human race is thus wasted
by the laws of nature because of man’s aversion to
the Lord, who is actually the proprietor of all
energies.
