216 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 6

comfortable living, but they refuse to endeavor to execute devotional
service, by which they can achieve the ultimate goal of life by returning
home, back to Godhead. Unfortunately, as it is said, na te viduh svartha-
gatim hi visnum durdsaya ye bahir-artha-maninah. People without
spiritual education do not know that the ultimate goal of life is to go back
home, back to Godhead. Forgetting this aim of life, they are working
very hard in disappointment and frustration (moghasa mogha-karmano
mogha-jndna vicetasah). The so-called vaisyas—the industrialists or
businessmen—are involved in big, big industrial enterprises, but they
are not interested in food grains and milk. However, as indicated here,
by digging for water, even in the desert, we can produce food grains;
when we produce food grains and vegetables, we can give protection to
the cows; while giving protection to the cows, we can draw from them
abundant quantities of milk; and by getting enough milk and combining
it with food grains and vegetables, we can prepare hundreds of nectarean
foods. We can happily eat this food and thus avoid industrial enterprises
and joblessness.

Agriculture and cow protection are the way to become sinless and thus
be attracted to devotional service. Those who are sinful cannot be at-
tracted by devotional service. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (7.28):

yesam tv anta-gatam papam
Jananam punya-karmandm

te dvandva-moha-nirmukta
bhajante mam drdha-vratah

“Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life, whose
sinful actions are completely eradicated and who are freed from the
duality of delusion, engage themselves in My service with determina-
tion.” The majority of people in this age of Kali are sinful, short-living,

unfortunate and disturbed (mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya
hy upadrutéh). For them, Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised:

harer nama harer nama
harer ndmaiva kevalam

kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha
