Text 8] Ideal Family Life 151

‘All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains.
Rains are produced by performance of yajria [sacrifice], and yajfa is
born of prescribed duties.” (Bg. 3.14) When food grains are sufficiently
produced, both animals and human beings can be nourished without dif-
ficulty for their maintenance. This is nature’s arrangement. Prakrteh
kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah. Everyone is acting under the in-
fluence of material nature, and only fools think they can improve upon
what God has created. The householders are specifically responsible for
seeing that the laws of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are main-
tained, without fighting between men, communities, societies or nations.
Human society should properly utilize the gifts of God, especially the
food grains that grow because of rain falling from the sky. As stated in
Bhagavad-gita, yajnad bhavati parjanyah. So that rainfall will be regu-
lated, humanity should perform yajnas, sacrifices. Yajnas were pre-
viously performed with offerings of oblations of ghee and food grains,
but in this age, of course, this is no longer possible, for the production of
ghee and food grains has diminished because of the sinful life of human
society. However, people should take to Krsna consciousness and chant
the Hare Krsna mantra, as recommended in the Sdastras (yajnaih
sankirtana-prayair yajanti hi sumedhasah). If people throughout the
world take to the Krsna consciousness movement and chant the easy
sound vibration of the transcendental name and fame of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, there will be no scarcity of rainfall; conse-
quently food grains, fruits and flowers will be properly produced, and all
the necessities of life will be easily obtained. Grhasthas, or householders,
should take the responsibility for organizing such natural production. It
is therefore said, tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovidah. An intelligent person
should try to spread Krsna consciousness through the chanting of the
holy name of the Lord, and all the necessities of life will automatically
follow.

TEXT 8

qag Raaaat naqad fe afenq |
afas aisfirmeta a at aeneta Uc 1

yavad bhriyeta jathararn

tavat svatvam hi dehinam
