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Srila Prabhupada, Hyderabad, November 29, 1972: […] The Vedanta-sutra says, “Who is the Absolute Truth?” Athato brahma jijnasa. The Vedanta-sutra means to inquire about the Absolute Truth. This human form of life is meant for inquiring about the Absolute Truth. Jivasya tattva-jijnasa. That is the duty of the human form of life.
It is a very big subject matter. So this human birth, form of life, we have got after so many evolutions: aquatics, then trees, then plants, then insects, then birds, then beasts. Then we come to the platform of this human being, especially civilized human being. And especially born in India. For this reason, Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that Indian people have got a special mission.
He said, bharata-bhumite manusya-janma haila yara [Cc. Adi 9.41] Anyone who is fortunate enough to get his birth in Bharata-varsa, janma sarthaka kari’ kara paropakara. Paropakara. Indian, Indians are meant for doing welfare activities to others.
Because in India you have got the culture which is actually human culture. Human culture means to understand God, to understand Krsna; that is human culture. Otherwise, if you simply improve the four principles of animal life, that is not culture. Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca samanyam etad pasubhih naranam. Eating: animal eats; we also eat. And if we make some improvement in the eating matter, that is not advancement of civilization. Similarly in sleeping matter.
A dog lies on the ground; we lie down on very silk bed and very nice apartment. But we are thinking this is advancement of civilization. No. This is not advancement of civilization. The advancement of civilization is that “Why I am put under the material laws?” Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanu-darsanam. One must be complicated… Everyone is trying to live.
Nobody wants to die. Nobody wants to take birth. He’s afraid of dying and again entering into the womb of mother. But less intelligent class of men, because they cannot make any solution, they make a wash-off: “Oh, there is no life after death.” No. That’s not fact. That’s not fact. There is life.
In the Bhagavad-gita you’ll find:
dehino ’smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantaram-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati [Bg. 2.13]
As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.
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