Prabhupada, Bombay, April 13, 1976: […] This Krishna consciousness movement is simply a very scientific movement that will help the human society not to be degraded again, to be elevated.
yanti deva-vrata devan pitrn yanti pitr-vratah bhutejya yanti bhutani mad-yajino ’pi yanti mam [Bg. 9.25]
This chance is there in the human form of life. If you want to be elevated to the higher planetary system, you can do that. Yanti deva-vrata devan. Why you are jumping with a jet plane to go to the moon planet? If you prepare yourself… There are methods; otherwise, why Krishna says, yanti deva-vrata? “If you want to go to the higher planetary system, you prepare yourself in this life.
You’ll be next life…” Tyaktva deham: “You shall go there. Or if you want to remain, go to the planets of Pitrloka, you can go there. And if you prepare yourself to come to Me, back to home, back to God, you can do that.” So what should be our aim of life? We shall go to the higher planetary system or back to home, back to Godhead? “Back”, we say, because we have come from God.
Just like one man is put in the prison house. He has come from his free home. By his work he is criminal; therefore he is put into the prison house. Similarly, we are all part and parcel of God. Our real home is Vaikuntha. But we have come here. How we have come, that is a very mysterious thing; but we are part and parcel.
Somehow or other… Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung, anadi karama phale, padi ’bhavarnava-jale. Somehow or other we have fallen this. Therefore the real aim of life, how to get out of this bhavarnava, nescience, that is the aim of life. If we remain again like the monkeys and cats and dogs, eating, sleeping, mating, and dancing, that is not very responsible life.
Every man should be responsible. That is Vedic culture, to create responsible man, not varna-sankara. Therefore Arjuna was very much afraid that “After war the women will be widows, they will be polluted, and varna-sankara population will come out.” Actually that is the fact. After the last war the hippies have come out all over the world. This is the fact.
So if there is varna-sankara population, that means the human civilization is lost. Therefore here is the civilization, how… In this Srimad-Bhagavatam, Narada Muni is describing how civilization should be advanced. The first proposal is brahmacari, how to create brahmacari. Brahmacari guru-grhe vasan danto guror hitam. What is that? So what is the duty of the brahmacari, it is now said.
The first duty is that sayam pratar upasita: “They should be taught how to worship the Supreme Lord at least twice in a day,” sayam pratah, “in the morning and in the evening.” Tri-sandhya. The prescription is for tri-sandhya. One should take bath three times. In India there is no difficulty.
Even in Western countries you have got very good arrangement, hot water and cold water. You can arrange and can take bath. This is essential. Not that sleeping up to ten o’clock. This kind of civilization will not help you. This asuric civilization will degrade the human society. He got the opportunity of elevating himself, even going back to home, back to Godhead. But for want of real civilization they are going again back to monkey and cats and dogs.
This is a fact. So the Krishna consciousness movement is trying to save them from going back to become cats and dogs. Instead of going back there, they are trying to send him back to God. That is Krishna consciousness movement.
Full Lecture
Pamho agtACBSP
We know that this kali-yuga age is full of hypocrisy where most of the population is thinking they got the way to freedom through their limited and polluted senses which bring ordinary people to get involved more in argue and fighting, age of quarrel. We prabhupadanugas are very lucky because a century ago there was no Krsna consciousness in the western countries.
Now we got this opportunity to get out from this age of quarrel and hypocrisy and just fools let this chance to go without sort out the problem of birth and death.
Therefore wise people don’t waste time in argue and fighting but use the time to find out our eternal relationship with SRI GURU GAURANGA.
Then kala sarp becomes amrta sarp like the divine snakes and that is possible by following the direction and instructions of the acharyas which HDG ACBSP is the topmost wise and learned Saktya-avesha Avatara of this degraded age in charge to make the sincere and humble servants conscious of this serious problem on their way back to SRI KRSNA.
We should be happy to have this chance by chanting Hare Krsna and reading daily SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA.
That’s enough to find out our eternal relation with SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA and close once for all this misery through the cycle of birth and death, yanti mad-yajino ‘pi mam then the time (kala) getting free from the poison of the snake (sarp).
This should be our first desire and business in this world where people forgot that they have to die by struggle to get happiness through a bag full of flesh we can see that, that’s not the way back home.
Because everyone is swearing due to anger when all their desires remain unfulfilled by crying on the big loss in misusing the human form of life, don’t wait until that time comes, yuddha karakari in this case we have to fight to get freedom and avoid to be entangled more in the mrtyu-samsara-vartamani. And this is possible by following the instructions of HDG ACBSP.
All the spiritual power is there for people who got greedy to use the time to get out from this prison house made by gunas and karma pranam.
Your servant seva das haribol