Prabhupada, Ahmedabad, December 5, 1972: […] So defect of the modern civilization is andha yathandair upaniyamanah. Very few men know what is the ultimate goal of life, what is soul, what is God, what is our relationship with God, how we have to lead our life, to achieve the ultimate goal of life.
These things are very missing. We are trying to follow the same principles of animals. Animals, they are concerned with eating, sleeping, sexual intercourse and defending. Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca samanyam etat pasubhih naranam. So they have got these propensities, animals, and we have got the same propensities. Samanyam.
We are similar to the animals in the matters of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But what… Then where is the distinction…? Just like animal eating on the floor. We are eating on the chair and table our nicely prepared foodstuff. But you are eating. So at the present moment, we are thinking that because we are eating on tables and chairs, we advance.
That is our mistake. That is no advance. Eating… The benefit of eating, whatever you eat or the animal eats, it is the same. Eating means to maintain the body and soul together. So by advancing in the modes of eating, that does not mean advancement of civilization. Advancement in the modes of sleeping, that does not mean advancement of civilization.
Similarly, advancement in the modes of sexual intercourse, it does not mean the advancement of civilization. Or advancement in defending, discovering atomic bombs for killing my enemy, that is also not advancement of civilization. Advancement of civilization means how much you have advanced to know the soul and the ultimate goal of the soul, how the soul is transmigrating from one body to another.
dehino ’smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantaram praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati [Bg. 2.13]
The… We living entities… We are all souls, living entities; similarly, God is also a living entity. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam. He’s the supreme living entity. Just like we have got leader—in every society, in every country. Just like in our country we have got the president, the chief Indian. Or in America, Mr. Nixon, chief American.
Similarly, there must be one chief, leader of the whole creation, and that is Krsna. There must be. By logical conclusion, there must be a leader. That is… That indication we get from Bhagavad-gita, yes, Vedas, Kathopanisad: nityo nityanam. Who is God? God means the chief of all living entities. It is not very difficult to understand. Full Lecture
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