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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This materialistic way of life is not human life. It is less than animal life. Animal also does not work so hard. You see? And the people are engaged . . . wherever you go, the very big highways. What is called? Freeways. Four lines of motorcars running this way and four lines of motorcars running this way at the speed of seventy miles, and everyone is busy. You see? And they take, "It is a very good civilization." And if you shortcut your hard labor, sit down and discuss what is the Absolute Truth, what is the philosophy of life, "They are nonsense." You see? And if you work day and night, hard labor, and to get that energy, inject some medicine or some tranquilizer and this and that . . . you see? This is the . . . going on.
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[[Vanisource:690309 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Hawaii|690309 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Hawaii]]
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So the torturing business of the demons is going on. Going on. As soon as the demons finds somebody little weak, they will torture. Weak in their way. A devotee is not weak, but they think that "These devotees, they are weak. They cannot do any materialistic work. They cannot build skyscrapers. They cannot build a subtle machine. So they have taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa." You see? They think like that.

But actually, they know, the devotees know, what is this value of this materialistic advancement. People are not happy actually. Now, so far materialistic happiness is concerned, your country, America, is number one. You are all qualified boys and girls, I see. But still, if we calculate impartially, what is the advantage? The advantage: hand to mouth. You earn in the morning and eat in the evening—finished. You see? Such qualified boys that . . . I take, for example, Gaurasundara. He is thoughtful. He is educated. He knows so many things, artist. But for livelihood he has to go early in the morning and come late in the evening. So what is the result?

This is the way of materialistic life. Life means that they should not work. Working hard, very hard working, that is the animal's business. The animal should be engaged to work hard for feeding, whole day. Just like the cow is standing here, sometimes eating this, sometime eating that, sometime eating that. What is the business? Only business: to fill up the belly. That's all. But after all qualification, if one has to do the same thing just to fill up the belly, working twelve hours, fourteen hours, then what is this civilization?

Has this civilization given the opportunity that, "Oh, you have no more to work. Simply sit down, every . . . all comforts"? You can say some of the rich men, they are enjoying like that, but they are enjoying at the cost of others. They have made such machinery that hundreds of men will work for them and they will sit down and enjoy. What is that enjoyment? Women and wine. That's all. Therefore some . . . a section of people, revolting—Communists.

So this materialistic way of life is not human life. It is less than animal life. Animal also does not work so hard. You see? And the people are engaged . . . wherever you go, the very big highways. What is called? Freeways. Four lines of motorcars running this way and four lines of motorcars running this way at the speed of seventy miles, and everyone is busy. You see? And they take, "It is a very good civilization."

And if you shortcut your hard labor, sit down and discuss what is the Absolute Truth, what is the philosophy of life, "They are nonsense." You see? And if you work day and night, hard labor, and to get that energy, inject some medicine or some tranquilizer and this and that . . . you see? This is the . . . going on.

So actually, this is not life. This is cats' and dogs' life. That is the verdict of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

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:nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke
:kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye 
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"This life, human form of life, is not meant for working so hard just like animals." Then? "This kind of engagement is for the dogs and hogs." The hogs also, they work the whole day and night and have some sex pleasure. They are happy. So is that life, simply working day and night hard and enjoy some sex pleasure some way or other, and we are thinking happy? No. This is not life.

Life is to utilize the energy for perpetual happiness. They do not know that there is some perpetual happiness, there is perpetual life. They are so ignorant. Therefore they are trying: "Whatever happiness can be had here, just enjoy." But there is. You are eternal. You are blissful. Simply you are covered by this material energy.
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