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<div class="heading">Everyone is born foolish. Everyone. Even the human beings, because they are coming from the animal kingdom by evolution, so the birth is the same, ignorance, like animals. Therefore, even though one is human being, he requires education. The animal cannot take education, but a human being can take education.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.9 -- London, August 15, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.9 -- London, August 15, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So ''hṛṣīkeśam'', I have several times explained. ''Hṛṣīka'' means the senses, and ''īśa'' means the master. ''Hṛṣīka-īśa'', and they join together: Hṛṣīkeśa. Similarly, Arjuna also: ''guḍāka-īśa''. ''Guḍāka'' means darkness, and ''īśa''. Darkness means ignorance.

:''ajñāna-timirāndhasya''
:''jñānāñjana-śalākayā''
:''cakṣur-unmīlitaṁ yena''
:''tasmai śrī-guruve namaḥ''
:(Śrī guru-praṇāma)

''Guru's'' duty is . . . a ''śiṣya'', a disciple, comes to the ''guru'' for enlightenment. Everyone is born foolish. Everyone. Even the human being, because they are coming from the animal kingdom by evolution, so the birth is the same, ignorance, like animal. Therefore, even though one is human being, he requires education. The animal cannot take education, but a human being can take education.

Therefore ''śāstra'' says, ''nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate vid-bhujāṁ ye'' ([[vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). I have several times recited this verse, that now . . . in the lower than human being condition, we have to work very hard simply for four necessities of life: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. Sense gratification. Main object is sense gratification. Therefore everyone has to work very hard. But in the human form of life, Kṛṣṇa gives us so much facilities, intelligence.

We can make our standard of living very comfortable, but with the purpose of attaining perfection in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You live comfortably—that's all right—but don't live like animals, simply increasing sense gratification. The human effort is going on how to live comfortably, but they want to live comfortably for sense gratification. That is the mistake of the modern civilization. ''Yuktāhāra-vihāraś ca yogo bhavati siddhiḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 6.17 (1972)|BG 6.17]]). In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' it is said ''yuktāhāra''. Yes, you must eat, you must sleep, you must satisfy your senses, you must arrange for defense—as much as possible; not to divert attention too much.

We have to eat, ''yuktāhāra''. That's a fact.