Quotes: Crisis of Culture (Srila Prabhupada)

(cultivation of addiction to alcohol and meat) Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.30. October 2, 1975, Mauritius. Sinful activities mean sense gratification. Sense gratification, they are... When one becomes very much addicted to sense gratification... The symptoms are very prominent in this age. Everyone is working very hard simply for sense gratification. And as soon as you take this life of sense gratification, you are sure to commit sinful activities. For example, throughout the whole world there are so many breweries manufacturing liquor. Especially in the Western countries you will find so many, the advertisement, liquor advertisement, whiskey advertisement, cigarette advertisement. And what to speak of slaughterhouse? There are many, many hundreds and thousands of slaughterhouse. And innocent animals are being killed all over the world unnecessarily. People can live with food grains. That is allowed for the all living entities.

(social entertainment into anxiety) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1.1.10, purport. “In this age, men are victims not only of different political creeds and parties, but also of many different types of sense gratificatory diversions, such as cinemas, sports, gambling, clubs, mundane libraries, bad association, smoking, drinking, cheating, pilfering, bickerings and so on. Their minds are always disturbed and full of anxieties due to so many different engagements.”

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/1/10/

(4 principles) Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā, 9.41, purport. “ At present, for want of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or God consciousness, the entire world is in darkness, having been covered by the four principles of sinful life — meat-eating, illicit sex, gambling and intoxication. Therefore there is a need for vigorous propaganda to educate people to refrain from sinful activities. This will bring peace and prosperity; the rogues, thieves and debauchees will naturally decrease in number, and all of human society will be God conscious.”

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/9/41/

(education on the mind) Lecture, 8 Nov 1972, “Yes. Our so-called advancement of education means to live on the mental platform. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā manorathena [SB 5.18.12]. They have no information of the spiritual platform. They... After bodily concept of life, the next platform is mental and intellectual concept of life. But spiritual life is beyond mental and intellectual concept of life. So unless one comes to the spiritual platform, even on mental and intellectual platform he cannot do anything good to the society.”

https://prabhupadavani.org/transcriptions/721108ndvrn/

(brahmins will adopt secular culture) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1.16.12, purport. “The administrative heads as a class will condemn the tenets of Vedic wisdom and will prefer to conduct a so-called secular state, and the so-called educated brāhmaṇas will be purchased by such unscrupulous administrators. Even a philosopher and writer of many books on religious principles may also accept an exalted post in a government which denies all the moral codes of the śāstras. The brāhmaṇas are specifically restricted from accepting such service. But in this age they will not only accept service, but they will do so even if it is of the meanest quality. These are some of the symptoms of the Kali age which are harmful to the general welfare of human society.”

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/16/21/

(secularism) Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania,  7 May, 1957. “As a matter of fact the so called intelligent persons of the modern age have taken the shelter of secularism on the strength of past unfortunate religious feuds. This is another type of nonsense.”

https://vedabase.io/en/library/letters/letter-to-sri-padampat-singhania/

(sin) Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā, 9.41, purport. “”