04 January 2012

KKSblog.com - Artificial arrangement

KKSblog.com - Artificial arrangement

Artificial arrangement

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:32 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Dec 2011, Sasolburg, Johannesburg, South Africa)

When industrialisation began, the world changed for the first time – drastically in big ways! When we started to get big factories and so on, that was the beginning and an end of an era in the world all over. Gradually we saw a society that became based on industry. Instead of taking food from the land, we are bringing it in vehicles to central markets, where everyone is buying. Slowly we rely more and more on all these artificial arrangements…that's of course is modernity…and now we are living like that…. and it has gone so far that it is practically impossible for many people in the world to go back to living more naturally!

Sometimes it has been said that:

‘Nature's arrangement was God's arrangement. Technology – that's mans' arrangement.’

Or sometimes it is said:

'The village is God's arrangement. The city – that was mans' arrangement.'

Well there is some truth in thoughts like that – it is true! It is not impossible to have spirituality in a modern lifestyle…. it is very possible, if we recognise the same thing. Like even if you are involved in a big chemical plant, then where do the chemicals come from? Okay then we are back to a perennial question:

'What is the origin of this universe?'

The western culture offers 'the big bang' as the solution, which is basically suggesting, that the whole matter was very dense and not together….then it exploded………but obviously the fundamental question remains:

'Where did that matter come from? What was the origin of that dense matter?'

That doesn't really speak of the origin of the universe, since it speaks of the interim stage of there was a matter. All right but:

‘Where did that come from?’

That was our question. So far modern science has never given a satisfactory answer to the origin of the universe. Therefore, we prefer to keep it on a divine origin!

Without grains there is no life

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:29 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Dec 2011, Sasolburg, Johannesburg, South Africa)

All traditional cultures of the world were very God centred societies. The old architectures in the European churches, with a small town around it, as well as a figure of another church. Basically it is a congregation with a church. In India it is temples, temples…temples everywhere! Even in the fields (where the farmer grow grains)there are little temples, and people go to worship in there to ask for blessings on whatever they grow….they don't just hope that it is going to rain, since they ask for blessings for that to occur.

When this proprietorship of the Supreme Lord is recognised and when His values which are revealed in various scriptures are recognised, then we can see that the world is not only becoming peaceful, but also nature becomes favourable…..then everything becomes prosperous….then the earth will produce ample amount of food grains.

Ultimately the basis for life in this world is grain. Without grain there is no life, because even if one is eating animals – still the animals eat grains, and even those who maintain eating flesh, they also need grains. Grains are essential…so this is a fact!

A conclusion on marriage

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:12 AM PST

Kadamba Kanana Swami

(Srimad Bhagavatam 7.14.1, 20 December 2011, Cape Town, South Africa)

Question:

In the purport (SB 7.14.1), Prabhupada first explained the bramachari, vanaprasta and sannyasa ashrams and then at last he said, grhasta ashram for those who are so attached to sex life. So it sounds like the only reason to go to grhasta ashram is lust. Is that what it is?

Answer:

Well, generally speaking it is. But sometimes, even self-realised souls came to the grhasta ahram to fulfil a purpose of the Lord, that also happens. Srinivasa Archarya, for example, had two wives but he was fully self-realised; he was seeing the spiritual world. That was an arrangement of the Supreme Lord. But for most of us, well you know…

The thing is this, you are perfectly happy all by yourself and then suddenly some sex desire begins to arise and then one comes to desire to have a relationship with someone. But some people may say that's not all there is to it, there is also companionship. Alright, I agree with that – companionship is important. We cannot just be alone in this world, we need to have other people but I think marriage, and I say that after 24 years of having tried it, that marriage is an unnatural arrangement!

I'll explain why. I think that to give someone else so much right to just infringe on your privacy is too much. See, if you are not married to someone, you can nicely and politely say: Thank you very much. I need a little time for myself.

But you can't say that to your wife… I mean, you can say it but my God, see what's coming next!

You never spend any time with me… you have no interest in me whatsoever… you completely cold and uninterested… always pre-occupied with other things!

And you are thinking: I just want to finish my rounds.

So it doesn't allow you this privacy that you naturally need. It's very intense. So it's an unnatural arrangement, this infringement on privacy. As far as companionship is concerned, I think there is a need for that but I wouldn't recommend marriage as the solution for that.

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