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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So anyway, all the scriptures, restrictions, laws and everything, they are meant for human beings, not for the animals. Therefore the human being must follow them for perfection. You cannot imitate the animals. The animals . . . the dog has sex life in the street. Can you do that? You'll be immediately criminal. Why? You can say, "Oh, I am free. I can do this." Why this restriction? That means restriction is meant for human life, and follow the restriction is the human life. That is the difference between animal life and human life. The animals are loitering in the street, naked. Can you loiter in the street, naked?.
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[[Vanisource:690428 - Lecture SB 05.05.02 - Boston|690428 - Lecture SB 05.05.02 - Boston]]
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Artificial laws, but there is some meaning. You cannot violate. Similarly, all the laws, all the books, all the scriptures, all knowledge, everything is meant for the human being, not for the animal. That is the difference between animal and man. Man follows restriction; animal cannot. Because man has got developed consciousness. He should know what is the aim of life. Therefore he should not live just like animals. He should be just like human being. That is the crossing stage of devel . . .

In the ordinary way, we have evolved our life from lower animals, lower species of animals, to this human form of life. Now here another junction to promote yourself still higher, higher, higher life, unto the liberation life. But if you don't follow the restriction, then you again glide down to lower animals' life. If you like, you can do that. Here is a chance. You haven't got to work so hard like the animals. God has given you so many facilities. You can live very nicely, better than animals. Therefore you must be better habits, I say, better habits than the animals.

So anyway, all the scriptures, restrictions, laws and everything, they are meant for human beings, not for the animals. Therefore the human being must follow them for perfection. You cannot imitate the animals. The animals . . . the dog has sex life in the street. Can you do that? You'll be immediately criminal. Why? You can say, "Oh, I am free. I can do this." Why this restriction? That means restriction is meant for human life, and follow the restriction is the human life. That is the difference between animal life and human life. The animals are loitering in the street, naked. Can you loiter in the street, naked?

Student: No, but if we break down the artificial institutions . . .

Prabhupāda: No, that is not artificial. That is rebellion to the established law. That is not, I mean to say, that is not freedom. There are so many things. Therefore you have to understand what is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. You see? Not to . . . not in an hour or in a minute you can understand. We are . . . we have got so many literatures, books, and you can study them. You can try to understand, if you are serious. But we . . . actually, Kṛṣṇa consciousness means, as our thoughts are always absorbed in some type of consciousness, we are absorbed in some type of thought, similarly, when our consciousness will be absorbed in Kṛṣṇa thought, that is the perfection of life.
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