RC NV 1976-06-24 You Enjoy and Forget Goal
ANNOUNCER: Next is a conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on June 24th, 1976,
at the New Vrindaban farm community in West Virginia.
PRABHUPĀDA: In this life he is living very comfortably.
Next life if I’m going to be a dog, then this is the charge.
Now how this class of men will answer it?
Can he deny that he’s not going to be [a] dog?
KĪRTANĀNANDA: He says he doesn’t believe it. - Huh?
- He says he doesn’t… - You believe or not believe.
Just like this child, this boy, he does not know anything.
But I know, his mother knows,
his father knows that he’s going to be [a] young man.
If he says, “No, I am not going to be [a] young man,” that is childish.
That is childish.
But, the father, mother,
or friends know that this boy is going to grow [to be] young man,
so he should be educated, and he should be properly situated.
That is the guardian’s business.
He doesn’t know. He doesn’t know.
So that he doesn’t know, that does not mean it is fact.
So similarly, if rascals say, “I don’t believe it,” that’s not a fact.
He is a rascal, mad, he may say so, but that is not the fact.
kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya [Bg. 13.22]
The real fact is that he’ll have to accept a body
according to the quality of development.
But what if they say that,
“Actually this life of growing the castor seed is very difficult,
farming is very difficult.
It is easier to go to the factory for eight hours,
and then I come home with my money and I enjoy.”
No, you enjoy, but by enjoying,
if you forget your real business, is that intelligent?
Your real business is that you have got this human form of body to,
improve your next life.
You are going to have a next life.
Suppose you are going to be a dog.
Is that success?
So you must know the science that instead of becoming dog,
how shall you become God.
That is intelligence.
But why is it any better to grow castor seed than to dig a well?
Huh?
- Why is it any better to grow castor seed than to… - No, you require lamp.
So you finish that lamping business as simply as possible.
In the balance time you save you improve your self-realization.
That is the life.
Just like this child, he wants to play.
He does not go to school, does not take an education,
and he improves type of toys, toys,
he’s engaged in improved type of football playing, and…
That… Is that very good intelligence?
But nobody works longer hours than the farmer.
Huh?
No one works harder than the farmer.
The farmer has to work very hard.
No, our point is that…
If you think that electricity improvement is better than farming,
we have no objection.
But if you forget your real business, is that intelligent?
- No, of course not. - That is our proposal.
Our real business is how to become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
So simply for improving the condition of life,
the necessities of life, if I forget my real business,
is that intelligence?
Therefore it is said duṣkṛtinaḥ.
Kṛti means merit.
But merit is being utilized for sinful activities.
Take for example the meat-eaters.
When man was… The uncivilized man is still there.
In the uncivilized way they are living in the jungle.
They require to eat something.
So, they stone over an animal going, and the animal dies, and then they eat.
Now, instead of killing the animal by stoning,
if you have discovered scientific machine in the slaughterhouse to kill the animal,
is that improvement?
If you think this is advancement, “Now we have discovered very technical machine.
Instead of stoning one animal killing, it takes so much time,
hundreds and thousands of animals you can kill in one hour.”
Do you think that is improvement?
That is going on.
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