This is the Way of Material Life

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Prabhupada, Vrindavan, December 8, 1975 — There is no engagement. What he’ll do? Unemployment. There is no employment. Because education means to become servant, to write one application and go office to office:

“Sir, give me some service.”

“No, no, no. No vacancy. Get out.”

This is education. After taking the M.A., B.A. degrees, they have no employment. So what they’ll do? They’ll form party of anarchist and Naxalite and play football, because they must have some engagement.

Oh, this is advancement of civilization. Instead of utilizing the valuable form of human life, there is always wasting. And at night they are sleeping, and at noon they are playing football, you see, wasting in this time.

So this will be explained next verse, mugdhasya balye kaisore kridato yati vimsatih: [SB 7.6.7] “By so-called sporting life, twenty years passed, fifty years by sleeping, and twenty years by football.”

Then seventy years passed. And jaraya grasta-dehasya yaty akalpasya vimsatih. And when he is old man: “Here is pain. Here is rheumatism. Here is…”, what is called, “diabetes and so on, so on.” So by treatment, by blood examination, by this…, vimsati, another twenty years.

So twenty years sporting, twenty years diabetes and fifty years sleeping — then what is left? Where is the opportunity for Krishna consciousness? This is modern civilization.

So we are trying to save people from this modern civilization. This is… Modern means in this age it is, excessively has increased, but this process was existent. This is the way of material life.
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