Pradyumna: We analyze that the material body is temporary, so it's no good anyways. Then if, even if someone says: "Well, it may be temporary, but in this life we can get something out of it . . ."
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Pradyumna: Then someone says: "But in this life, we can get something out of it," then we analyze that other people are taking that—the wife is taking that, the children are taking that. So . . .
Prabhupāda: No, how . . . we should first of all fix up what is our business. People have taken this, that to maintain the body, to maintain the family, to protect the . . . earn money and protect it, these have become their business. They do not know anything else. The whole world is going on on this platform—the nationwise, communitywise, everything. Other countries have developed, now the Shah is trying to develop equally. But what is the aim of development? The same—motorcar and accident. That they do not know. No. "They have got motorcar. I must have motorcar." But what is the aim? Same aim: meet accident and die. They do not know what is the aim of life. Na te viduḥ. They do not know it. Durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ (SB 7.5.31). They are thinking that by adjusting this material way of life they'll be happy. That's all. This is ignorance. The whole civilization is wrong because they do not know what is the aim of life. That is the fault. If they know the aim of life, then it is all right. You live comfortably. There is no . . . who asks you that you live discomfortably? You live comfortably. But you must know the aim of life. That they do not know. Ask anybody what is the aim, why you are working so hard, why you are maintaining family, why you are maintaining body, what is the aim of your life. That they do not know.