# The World at War *On violence, nuclear weapons, and the path to real peace* --- ### The Temperature of Civilization > The modern civilization is increasing the temperature. So we have come to the point of 107 degree—atom bomb. So we are prepared for killing ourself. So this degree, this increasing of temperature of material enjoyment, will never make us happy. We have to decrease the temperature. We have to come to the point of 97, not to the 107. — [[spoken/1966/660831bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 5.25, New York, 1966]] --- ### Karma of Animal Slaughter > The injunction is, "Thou shall not kill," but they will kill and kill and kill and kill, and still, they want to be satisfied. The Bible says, "Thou shall not kill," and they are simply engaged in killing business, and still they want to be happy. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "Yes, you be killed by occasional world war. You must be killed. You have created this situation. You may be American or Englishman or German. You may be very proud of your nationality. But you must be killed." You have killed so many animals. Now wholesale killing, one bomb, one atom bomb. Be killed. — [[spoken/1973/731203sb.la|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.24, Los Angeles, 1973]] --- ### The Nuclear Race > Now the nuclear war means it will not continue very long. The first party who will drop the bomb on the other party, he will be victorious, and immediately the war will stop. They are simply arranging how to drop the atom bomb first. Just like in Japan, as soon as the Americans dropped the atom bomb in Hiroshima, immediately they surrendered. Now the question is who will be able to drop the bomb first. — [[spoken/1975/750616mw.hon|Morning Walk, Honolulu, 1975]] --- ### The Futility of Defense > Every nation is taking all the leaders and as soon as there is war, thousands and thousands will be killed. What responsibility? As soon as one atom bomb is dropped, many thousand will be finished. Then what is your responsibility? You can make a statue: "These soldiers died. These soldiers died." That's all. But you could not save them from death. — [[spoken/1975/750812mw.par|Morning Walk, Paris, 1975]] --- ### Fear Cannot Be Eliminated > Our big, big states, big, big countries, especially nowadays, USA and Russia or China, manufacturing atom bomb. So what is this atom bomb? Defense. How to get out of fear. So why they are manufacturing this atom bomb? To get out of fearfulness. That you may try, but it will never be successful. You may waste your time, but you'll never be successful. Fear will always be there; either you have got atom bomb or any big type of defense, when death will come, it will not defend you. — [[spoken/1976/760620sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.4, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Human Creative Power > God is also active; the living entities are also active. But His actions and my actions are not comparable. God is creator; I am also creator. I have got creative power; God has also creative power. But God creates innumerable universes, and you can create a motorcar. That's all, no more. Or atom bomb—to kill. — [[spoken/1970/701222sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.12, Surat, 1970]] --- ### The Accumulation of Sin > You are maintaining so many slaughterhouse, and when it will be mature, there will be war, the wholesale murder. Finished. One atom bomb—finished. You'll have to suffer. Don't think that "Innocent animals, they cannot protest. Let us kill and eat." No. You'll be also punished. Wait for accumulation of your sinful activities, and there will be war. — [[spoken/1976/760531sb.hon|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.32, Honolulu, 1976]] --- ### Demonic Research > You may have some particular knowledge. Suppose you are expert in scientific knowledge, but you're busy to find out a nuclear weapon, how to kill other enemies. This is the research work. That is demonic. The same knowledge can be utilized for finding out God. That is mahātmā. This is the difference. — [[spoken/1975/750205bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.9, Honolulu, 1975]] --- ### The Real Weapon > In the Kali-yuga there is no profit by killing them. They are already killed. So therefore this is the weapon—this *hari-saṅkīrtana*. To kill the miscreants this is the weapon, this *hari-saṅkīrtana*. If they simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, this is the weapon that will kill all their sinful reaction of life; they will become devotees. This is the weapon. — [[spoken/1976/760529sb.hon|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.30, Honolulu, 1976]] --- ### Third World War > So when the movement was increasing, Pakistan was in a very precarious condition. So they wanted American help. The Americans also said, "Yes." So they got American planes to crush down Bangladesh. And the Russians also came. So it was going to be the same, Third World War, immediately. So Americans considered something, that "Let us take some time." Therefore the war was stopped. Otherwise it was already started. That policy is going on. — [[spoken/1975/750404r1.may|Room Conversation, Māyāpur, 1975]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on war, violence, and nuclear weapons* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]