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If we simply waste our time for increasing unnecessary necessities of life and do not try to understand the value of life, then we remain animal

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"if we simply waste our time for increasing unnecessary necessities of life and do not try to understand the value of life, then we remain animal"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

The necessities of life, artificial necessities, reduced, and time is saved for understanding the value of life. Without motorcar your life will not be spoiled. You can walk. But without Kṛṣṇa consciousness your life is spoiled. So how . . . We recommend that "First of all understand yourself." Athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is your prime business. And so far necessities of body, that can be done according to the circumstances. So if we simply waste our time for increasing unnecessary necessities of life and do not try to understand the value of life, then we remain animal.

Devotee (3): First World War.

Prabhupāda: First World War, yes. That was futile. Again you have started United Nation. Where is the benefit? There cannot be benefit. If you keep the dogs as dog, you bring them, "You Australian dog, come here, and American dog, come here, and European dog, come here. Live peacefully," will they live peacefully? So if you keep the human society as cats and dogs, how you can expect peace? They must be human being. Then there will be peace. So this is the training how to make human being, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now these boys, they are also Europeans, Americans. They are coming from respectable, very educated . . . They'll never ask for a chair. Sit down. That's all. The necessities of life, artificial necessities, reduced, and time is saved for understanding the value of life. Without motorcar your life will not be spoiled. You can walk. But without Kṛṣṇa consciousness your life is spoiled. So how . . . We recommend that "First of all understand yourself." Athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is your prime business. And so far necessities of body, that can be done according to the circumstances. So if we simply waste our time for increasing unnecessary necessities of life and do not try to understand the value of life, then we remain animal.

Brian Singer: I understand that the body, you know, like the soul is different from the body . . .

Prabhupāda: Then your . . . Then your activities will be changed.

Brian Singer: But what . . . I would like to know more about the, the soul in so far as, does it have beginning? Does it have end?

Prabhupāda: No, soul is always there. Just like the soul in the boy, the soul in the young man and the soul in the old man—the same.

Brian Singer: Yeah, and before life . . .

Prabhupāda: Body has changed.

Brian Singer: Body . . .?

Prabhupāda: Body has changed. The soul is the same. You can remember, I can remember, that "I was a small boy. I was a small child." But the body is not there. I remember, when I was six months old I was lying down on the lap of my eldest sister, and she was knitting. I was seeing. I still remember. But where is that body? That body's gone.

Brian Singer: Yeah, this is possible to understand. Before the body, the soul is still there?

Prabhupāda: Before the childhood body and . . ., you were existing. Before your body was formed in the womb of your mother you were existing.

Page Title:If we simply waste our time for increasing unnecessary necessities of life and do not try to understand the value of life, then we remain animal
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-21, 08:22:59
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