Are We Humans More Advanced Than Animals - Prabhupada 1057
700421 - Lecture Lord Buddha's Appearance - Los Angeles
- āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca
- samānyam etat paśubhiḥ narāṇām
- (Hitopadeśa)
The problems of eating, problems of sleeping, problems of defending and problems of mating, or sex life, these problems are there in the animal life or amongst the living entities lower than the human beings. But those problems are solved automatically by laws of nature. The birds, beasts, they are also eating. They have no economic problem. They are also sleeping, and they are having their mates and sex life. And they are also defending in their own way. Human form of life, the most developed consciousness, intelligence, if we are also busy in solving these problems of life, namely eating, sleeping, defending and mating, then we are not very much advanced than the animals, because they have got these problems and they are trying to solve them.