Materialistic (SB cantos 5 - 12)

Expressions researched:
"materialistic" |"materialistitcally"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: materialistic or materialistically not "materialist* person*" not "materialist person" not "materialistic people" not "materialistic life" not "materialistic * life" not "materialistic * * life" not "materialistic way of living"

SB Canto 5

SB 5.1.14, Purport:

People have been educated to worship matter. According to the direction of modern society, men think they can advance in civilization by manipulating matter to build skyscrapers, big roads, automobiles and so on. Such a civilization must certainly be called materialistic because its people do not know the goal of life. The goal of life is to reach Viṣṇu, but instead of reaching Viṣṇu, people are bewildered by the external manifestation of the material energy. Therefore progress in material advancement is blind, and the leaders of such material advancement are also blind. They are leading their followers in the wrong way.