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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So why human being, so-called civilized human being, is so much harassed for these four things? We have got better intelligence. 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. Everyone wants peaceful, calm life.
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[[Vanisource:720823 - Lecture SB 01.02.20 - Los Angeles|720823 - Lecture SB 01.02.20 - Los Angeles]]
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Intelligent person . . . this is . . . goodness means intelligence, prakāśa. And ignorance means darkness. In darkness, we cannot see what is what. So goodness means light. Anyone can see that there are 8,400,000 species of life or forms of life. They are getting their food. They are getting their shelter. They are satisfying their sex. They are also defending without any extra endeavor. By nature, they are doing their own way.

So why human being, so-called civilized human being, is so much harassed for these four things? We have got better intelligence. 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. Everyone wants peaceful, calm life.

Even those who are struggling so hard, big business magnate, still, at the weekend, they find out some secluded place, nice place, without trouble. That is the nature. That human nature should be like that, that "Why should we work so hard, simply for eating, sleeping, mating?" This is a wrong type of civilization. But at the modern age, the human society is so made that one has to work like ass, whole day and night, simply for satisfying these four necessities of life.

That is also not guaranteed. We thought that in your country . . . when I was in India, I was contemplating coming to your country. I thought that, "America is very rich. There is no problem for eating, sleeping, mating." Actually there is nil. There is no problem. But the civilization is so made that there is no shelter. They are lying down on the park, on the street. Why?
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