Our knowledge is from Kṛṣṇa. We accept that this body is dead because the soul has passed to another body. This is perfect knowledge. Now when you come to this knowledge—perfectly—that "I am not this body; I am soul," that is called a brahma-bhūta state, ahaṁ brahmāsmi—Brahman realization, or spiritual realization. This is Vedic civilization—to give chance, everyone, how to realize that Brahman. (break)
. . . don’t bother about so-called economic development, because by God's arrangement everything is there. I have repeatedly said that there are 8,400,000 species of life. Out of that, human form of life are 400, 400,000. The eight million . . . out of this 400,000 species of life there are a few civilized. Otherwise there are so many non-civilized. They live in the jungles; they do not care for any civilization. But the problem is only for the civilized class of men. Others they are living on nature. The bird rising early in the morning, he has no economic problem. Immediately he flies anywhere, they . . . in some trees there is some fruit; he eats. His eating problem is solved. Then after eating, sleeping—sleeping problem. So anywhere on the top of the tree he sleeps very nicely. Sleeping problem. Then mating, sex intercourse. Every bird is born with another male and female. So these are not problems practically, but actually we have given up the real problem: to understand what is Brahman, what is soul. We are entrapped, involved, in so many problems of so-called eating, sleeping, mating and defending.
So this kind of civilization is not very correct. You try to understand. Real civilization is to know one's self, what I am. Am I this body or something else? That is real civilization. For this purpose there must be university. For this purpose there must be educational institution. Other purposes, they are automatically served by nature's arrangement.