Elevation to Krsna Consciousness - Original 1973 ... - Prabhupada

18 Elevation to qa Consciousnessiisa-pasa-sata'ir baddhal;kama-krodha-parayaral;lhante kiima-bhogarthaman yiiyeniirtha-saiicayiin"Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires,by lust and anger, they secure money by illegalmeans for sense gratification." (Bg. 16.12)Consequently, although there is no lack of moneyin the world, there is a scarcity of peace. So muchhuman energy is being diverted to making money,for the general population has increased its capacityto make more and more dollars, but in the long runthe result is that this unrestricted and unlawfulmonetary inflation has created a bad economy allover the world and has provoked us to manufacturehuge and costly weapons to destroy the very resultof such cheap money-making. The leaders of thebig money-making countries are not really enjoyingpeace but are making plans to save themselves fromimminent destruction by nuclear weapons. In fact,huge sums of money are being thrown into the seaby way of experiments with these dreadful weapons.Such experiments are being carried out not only athuge costs but also at the cost of many lives. In thisway the nations are being bound by the laws ofkarma. When men are motivated by the impulse forsense gratification, whatever money is earned isspoiled, being spent for the destruction of the humanrace. The energy of the human race is thus wastedby the laws of nature because of man's aversion tothe Lord, who is actually the proprietor of allenergtes.