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302 Glimpses of Traditional Indian Life

is simplified and the central point is how to become
advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness by cooperation. This
is India’s civilization. There is no question of industry,
ugra-karma. It has been condemned in the Bhagavad-
gītā as ugra-karma: “laboring very hard for livelihood.”
(Conversation, 9 April 1976)

Every state is supposed to be a welfare state. Every citizen
of that state should be happy, prosperous. There should
be no anxiety. I do not know if every state is taking care of
the citizens in that way. People are always full of anxieties.
They are creating a situation where everyone is full of
anxiety. This material world is made so that it is full of
anxiety. Even the bird, you will see, when he is taking
some grains he is also full of anxiety. He is looking like this
and that: “Oh, somebody is coming or killing me.” So this
is the nature. So human society should be so arranged that
its members should be free from all anxiety. Therefore
we require good citizens, good father and mother, good
system of government, and pious, virtuous, people for
cooperation between God and nature. Everything will be
helpful for my spiritual realization. If I am full of anxiety,
how can I make progress in spiritual realization? It is not
possible. Therefore it is the duty of the state, the father,
the teacher, the spiritual master, to give the chance to the
small children to develop in such a way that they become
fully realized spiritual souls at the end, and so that their
miserable life in the material existence is over. That is
the responsibility. (Lecture, 29 July 1966)