Prabhupada: 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 Krsna 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 Krsna consciousness movement.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.12.2
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bombay, April 13, 1976
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