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Śrīla Prabhupāda: Do you know what is meant by “sacrifice”?

Disciple: Sacrifice to Viṣṇu, to Kṛṣṇa.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes. That means pleasing Kṛṣṇa. If Kṛṣṇa is pleased, He can change destiny. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām: …

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Question number two?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: “The traditional charge against Hinduism is that it is fatalistic, that it inhibits progress by making people slaves …

Śrīla Prabhupāda: The charge is false. Those who have made that charge do not know what “Hinduism” is. First of …

So it is a false charge that the Vedic system inhibits the progress of mankind. What is that “progress”? A …

The Vedic system is this: The human being has a certain amount of energy – better energy than the animals’, …

Consequently, sometimes those who have no idea of religion notice that the Indian saintly persons are not working hard like …

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukhaṁ kālena sarvatra gabhīra-raṁhasā

The human being should exert his energy for that thing which he did not get in many, many lives. Through …

So this struggle for existence is going on, life after life. Even a small insect is engaging in the same …

Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja advises his friends [Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3],

sukham aindriyakaṁ daityā deha-yogena dehinām sarvatra labhyate daivād yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ

“My dear friends, material pleasure – which is due simply to this material body – is essentially the same in …

Still, people are taking this sex pleasure between a man and woman in a nice decorated apartment as very advanced. …

Naturally, according to the different types of body, there are some external differences in the pleasure, but the basic amount …

Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says that everything about material pleasure is already fixed. The uncivilized men in the jungle are having …

But Vedic civilization says, “No, this is not advancement. Real advancement is self-realization – how much you have realized your …