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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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So you have to compare that where . . . where is your advancement of knowledge? Advancement of knowledge means to mitigate, minimize miseries of life. That is called advancement of knowledge. But you . . . the real miseries of life is birth, death, old age and disease. You cannot do anything. So where is your advancement of knowledge? The scientists cannot stop death, cannot stop birth.
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[[Vanisource:730425 - Morning Walk - Los Angeles|730425 - Morning Walk - Los Angeles]]
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Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca (Hitopadeśa 25). These four things, eating, sleeping, sex life and defense, even you'll find in the birds and beasts. And you are, if you are engaged in these four things in so-called scientific way, then where is your advancement? When death will come, your science will not save you. As the bird will not be saved, you'll not be saved. Then where is your advancement?

You are going on the motorcar, say, twenty miles. One bird can fly fifty miles. Even he's more expert. I have seen in the ship, the skylark, they go equal speed. The ship is running on, twenty-five miles' speed or thirty miles; they're going. So where is your expertness? By nature it is expert. Just like these dogs, they are jumping with great force in the ocean and they'll come back; similarly you also go with your surf, and again come back. Where is the difference between this dog and you?

So you have to compare that where . . . where is your advancement of knowledge? Advancement of knowledge means to mitigate, minimize miseries of life. That is called advancement of knowledge. But you . . . the real miseries of life is birth, death, old age and disease. You cannot do anything. So where is your advancement of knowledge? The scientists cannot stop death, cannot stop birth.

They are inventing so many chemical contraceptive method, but the statistic is population is increasing. Even they're unsuccessful in this matter. The statistics is that every minute or second, three persons are increasing all over the world. Where is your contraceptive? You cannot check even birth. Birth, de . . . and Bhagavad-gītā says: "These are real problems: birth, death, old age and disease." So what you have done about these things, we have to see. Then we can accept that you are advanced.
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