Young children are begging everywhere, and the disabled, sick, malnourished, infirm elders, and many other vulnerable people are also sleeping and begging on the streets throughout India.
India is definitely not looking after it's children, sick, disabled, poor, mentally ill, addicted and elderly. And Iskcon is definitely not an example of Dharma Shastra either, with it's leadership completely corrupted with pedophiles, drug addicts, violent abusers, and those that cover it up and are complicit.
Even here -- one of the richest nations on the planet -- we have a massive shortage of affordable housing for the poor, sick and disabled. But we do not sink as low as India to neglect and leave children to starve and sleep on the street with no care at all. In other words, India has less dharma than other places because other places at least make some effort to care for the helpless. Then some India devotees complain we have less dharma in the West? Where is their dharma?
G Dasi: SB 3-3-14
After the end of the Battle of Kuruksetra, the Lord said:
Even here -- one of the richest nations on the planet -- we have a massive shortage of affordable housing for the poor, sick and disabled. But we do not sink as low as India to neglect and leave children to starve and sleep on the street with no care at all. In other words, India has less dharma than other places because other places at least make some effort to care for the helpless. Then some India devotees complain we have less dharma in the West? Where is their dharma?
G Dasi: SB 3-3-14
After the end of the Battle of Kuruksetra, the Lord said:
The abatement of the earth’s great burden, eighteen aksauhinis, has now been effected with the help of Drona, Bhisma, Arjuna and Bhima. But what is this? There is still the great strength of the Yadu dynasty, born of Myself, which may be a more unbearable burden.
“It is a wrong theory that due to an increase in population the world becomes overburdened and therefore there are wars and other annihilating processes. The earth is never overburdened. The heaviest mountains and oceans on the face of the earth hold more living entities than there are human beings, and they are not overburdened.
“It is a wrong theory that due to an increase in population the world becomes overburdened and therefore there are wars and other annihilating processes. The earth is never overburdened. The heaviest mountains and oceans on the face of the earth hold more living entities than there are human beings, and they are not overburdened.
"If a census were taken of all the living beings on the surface of the earth, certainly it would be found that the number of humans is not even five percent of the total number of living beings. If the birthrate of human beings is increasing, then the birthrate of other living beings is increasing proportionately. The birthrate of lower animals — beasts, aquatics, birds, etc. — is far greater than that of human beings.
"There is an adequate arrangement for food for all the living beings all over the earth by the order of the Supreme Lord, and He can arrange more and more if there is actually a disproportionate increase of living beings.
"Therefore, there is no question of an increase in population causing a burden. The earth became overburdened due to dharma-glani, or irregular discharge of the Lord’s desire. The Lord appears on the earth to curb the increase in miscreants, and not the increase in population, as is wrongly put forward by the mundane economist. When Lord Krsna appeared, there had been a sufficient increase in miscreants who had violated the desire of the Lord.
"Therefore, there is no question of an increase in population causing a burden. The earth became overburdened due to dharma-glani, or irregular discharge of the Lord’s desire. The Lord appears on the earth to curb the increase in miscreants, and not the increase in population, as is wrongly put forward by the mundane economist. When Lord Krsna appeared, there had been a sufficient increase in miscreants who had violated the desire of the Lord.
"The material creation is meant for fulfilling the desire of the Lord, and His desire is that the conditioned souls who are unfit to enter into the kingdom of God have a chance to improve their conditions for entering. The entire process of cosmic arrangement is intended just to give a chance to the conditioned souls to enter the kingdom of God, and there is an adequate arrangement for their maintenance by the nature of the Lord.
"Therefore, although there may be a great increase in population on the surface of the earth, if the people are exactly in line with God consciousness and are not miscreants, such a burden on the earth is a source of pleasure for her. There are two kinds of burdens. There is the burden of the beast and the burden of love. The burden of the beast is unbearable, but the burden of love is a source of pleasure.
"Therefore, although there may be a great increase in population on the surface of the earth, if the people are exactly in line with God consciousness and are not miscreants, such a burden on the earth is a source of pleasure for her. There are two kinds of burdens. There is the burden of the beast and the burden of love. The burden of the beast is unbearable, but the burden of love is a source of pleasure.
"Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti describes the burden of love very practically. He says that the burden of the husband on the young wife, the burden of the child on the lap of the mother, and the burden of wealth on the businessman, although actually burdens from the viewpoint of heaviness, are sources of pleasure, and in the absence of such burdensome objects, one may feel the burden of separation, which is heavier to bear than the actual burden of love.
"When Lord Krsna referred to the burden of the Yadu dynasty on the earth, He referred to something different than the burden of the beast. The large numbers of family members born of Lord Krsna counted to some millions and were certainly a great increase in the population of the earth, but because all of them were expansions of the Lord Himself by His transcendental plenary expansions, they were a source of great pleasure for the earth.
"When the Lord referred to them in connection with the burden on the earth, He had in mind their imminent disappearance from the earth. All the members of the family of Lord Krsna were incarnations of different demigods, and they were to disappear from the surface of the earth along with the Lord. When He referred to the unbearable heaviness on the earth in connection with the Yadu dynasty, He was referring to the burden of their separation. Srila Jiva Gosvami confirms this inference.”
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The materialists will fight the other materialists and reduce the sinful population thereby:
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