Category:What Is This Civilization
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category feature Śrīla Prabhupāda delivering a relentless critique of modern society by repeatedly asking what is this civilization. He exposes the harsh reality that despite technological advancements, skyscraper cities, and fast motorcars, human society has degraded into an animalistic struggle for existence. He compares people to asses working tirelessly just to eat and sleep like pigs, and likens the culture to polishing a cage while letting the bird of the spirit soul starve to death inside. By abandoning spiritual life, slaughtering the cow and bull, and electing blind leaders, modern man has created a demonic and anxiety-ridden society. Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes that true civilization is not found in factories or money, but in spiritual education, purposeful living, and Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- The Burden of Material Ambition: Modern society forces people to work like beasts of burden just to fulfill basic bodily necessities, completely missing the higher purpose of human life.
- A Culture of Anxiety and Danger: By prioritizing high-speed technology and abandoning spiritual ethics, contemporary civilization has created an environment filled with constant risk, violence, and fear.
- Neglecting the Real Self: A civilization that focuses entirely on bodily comforts while ignoring the spiritual needs of the soul is identical to washing a cage while the bird inside starves.
- The Tragedy of Secularism: Discarding religion to focus exclusively on economic development and sense gratification degrades human beings to the level of cats and dogs.
- The Authentic Vedic Alternative: True civilization is characterized by early rising, spiritual practice, protection of cows and bulls, and dedicating one's life to understanding the Supreme Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: What Is This Civilization - A Critique of Modern Animalistic Society.
Pages in category "What Is This Civilization"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
A
- A ass is trying to become a pig. What is that civilization? So ideal is to become a pig, and for that, fulfillment of that idea, they are working like ass. Is it not? Just see. Think over
- Advanced civilization means every man must have sufficient space to live. Why do you create this path? People will recreate, they will feel repressed, so space is required for refreshment. So what is this civilization? Three inches room
- 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?
- At the end of my life, if I get a good balance, bank balance, then I shall live peacefully without any botheration. - So everyone hopes like that for future. But what is this civilization? They have no future hope
T
- The negroes, they capture and rape. Life is unsafe even in a civilized city like New York. So what is this civilization?
- The so-called science and nasty philosophy and economics and making them, training them as demons and raksasas. What is this civilization? So our movement is against this demonic civilization
- There is no ideal character. Everyone is drunkard and meat-eater or woman-hunter. What is the civilization? Hog civilization
- There is no regular training of the human being. They are being trained up like cats' and dogs' life. Cats and dogs, they don't require training. Because what is the modern civilization? Eating, sleeping, sex life, and dying
- This is a civilization where a blind man is guiding a few others or many other blind men. So what is this civilization? The leader, he is a rascal. He does not know what is the aim of life
- This is their civilization, with the risk of life, running motor car eighty miles' speed. Every moment there is risk. What is this civilization? Most ludicrous civilization
- To give up religion altogether, secular, simply open factory, bolts and nuts, and work hard and drink and take meat... What is this civilization? What is this civilization? Therefore we are suffering
V
- Vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah (BG 7.19). This is wanted. At least, one must know. Why they should be kept in darkness? What is this civilization? They have got light. The knowledge is there. They can be educated
- Very good facility for driving motorcar, and they have got enough motorcar also. Every third man has got a car. But what are these civilization? Kama and lobha, lustiness and greediness. That's all
W
- We are not submitting to suffering. Then what is the civilization? We don't want suffering. That is our position
- We shall be, rather, more comfortable without struggling for existence than the animals. But our struggle for existence is greater than their struggle of existence. What is this civilization? This is not civilization
- What is this civilization? Simply money, money, money, money, money. And as soon as you get money, then you begin all nonsense, illicit sex, meat-eating, drinking, gambling. What you will do with the money? You do not know how to spend it
- What is this human civilization? Jumping like dog, in a motorcar, that's all. This is not civilization. This is dog civilization, that's all
- What is this nonsense civilization? Simply want of money and unsatisfied in every step. Especially in the Western countries they're becoming hippie. Why? The training is different
- Why you create unnecessary necessities of life and become complicated and forget Krsna? What is this civilization? Rascal civilization. Instead of giving protection to the cows, you are cutting the throat. Is that civilization?
Y
- You are working so hard, day and night, very busy, going this side, that side, this side, that side, and getting money, and leading a life like hog. What is this civilization? This is not civilization
- You have to convince your countrymen that what is this civilization, nonsense civilization? Stop this kind of civilization. Learn how to become civilized. Don't claim yourself as civilized man and eating like tigers and dogs and cats