We are trying to be happy by political adjustment

So this Krsna consciousness movement is very important movement. We are trying to educate people to feel, or to understand clearly that he’s not this body; he’s spirit soul. And at the present moment, all our activities are going on on the bodily concept of life. That is called ignorance. Mudha. Na mam prapadyante mudhah duskrtino naradhamah [Bg. 7.15]. Krsna says. Because one is under the bodily concept of life, his interest has become on the ground of this body. In other places also it is said, na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31] Because they are in…, under the bodily concept of life, they do not know what is their self-interest. One does not know actually what is his self-interest. His self-interest is to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is his self-interest. But he does not know. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. Durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah. He’s trying to adjust things on the external bodily concept of life. And the so-called leaders are leading in that way. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanas te ’pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhah. They remain in the same condition. The actual fact is that. We are trying to be happy by political adjustment, but our mistaken point is that “I am this body.” Therefore, the leaders are changing, but the improvement is not there. The same fight, the same antagonism, same barking like dogs and cats, going on. Because everything is built up on the bodily concept of life. They’re… Not to speak of others, the first-class men, of all nations, they assemble in the United Nations, in New York. We see, generally. There was simply flag increasing. There are hundreds and thousand of flags. This nation, that nation, that nation. Where is unity? The unity means increasing flags. That’s all. There was no Pakistani flag. Now there is Pakistani flag. There is Sikhastani flag. This flag, that flag. But we cannot see that we are one. That can be possible only by advancement of Krsna consciousness. Not on the bodily consciousness. Here you’ll find there are boys from America, from England, from Canada, from Africa, from Australia, but they’re not thinking in terms of that “He’s Indian, American, Australian, this and that.” They are thinking in terms of Krsna consciousness. Every one of us, we are thinking we are servant of Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness movement.

Bhagavad-gita 2.13
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Hyderabad, November 19, 1972