Plain Living High Thinking - Prabhupada 0984

680504 - Lecture SB 05.05.01-3 - Boston

If you want really peaceful life, then you have to make your material necessities simplified and engage your time for spiritual cultivation. Then you will have peace. And that is the best type of civilization. Plain living, high thinking.

Now, in the modern days, the high living and plain thinking. Eating, sleeping, mating. This is plain thinking. This thinking also in the animals. They are also thinking what to eat, where to live, how to defend, how to have . . . have a female for sex life. These are problems in animal life also.

So if we keep that animal life problem, at the same time we claim that we are civilized, is it very nice? Civilization means how to get out of this material miseries—birth, death, disease and old age. That is real advancement of civilization. If there is any way and means to get out of this problems, then we must adopt in this human form of life. And that is possible in this human form of life. In no other life.