Paramahamsa surveyed the morning newspaper. The day before, in what US President Ford described as "an act of piracy", the Cambodian Government seized the 10,000 tonne US freighter Mayaguez, 96km off the Cambodian coast in the Gulf of Thailand. Now, in retaliation, the US Navy had sunk three Cambodian gun boats. Paramahamsa reported these war-like events to Srila Prabhupada in his room.
Prabhupada was ominously dismissive: "The capitalists will destroy the communists, the communists will destroy the capitalists and the whole civilisation will be destroyed. Then, a new civilisation will arise. It is inevitable. People will be forced into the forest. Our next program will be to organise the farm communities, to give the people full engagement. If they are fully engaged, then they will forget the allurement of the Western 'civilisation' of sex and intoxication. In this way there must be strong fighting against the demonic civilisation to save human society."
- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
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