So human civilization is coming to that. Already it has come. In Western countries . . . at least, in our country it has not come still. And Western, it is common affair. Young man, young woman is embracing, kissing, and everything. And sometimes sexually also engaged on the sea beach, in the garden. We have seen it. So practically you are coming to the hogs' and dogs' life. This is our advancement of civilization. Why? On account of this bodily concept of life: "I am this body. I am this body."
Therefore this should be first of all understood. As Kṛṣṇa says, idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity . . . (BG 13.2). It has been awarded to you for utilizing it for different purposes, as you like. You can utilize it like cats and dogs and hogs, and you can utilize it as devatā, as demigod. That is up to you. We have got little independence. We can utilize or misuse this independence. But the śāstra says that this body is not to be utilized as cats and dogs and hogs. Śāstra says.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ (BG 16.23): anyone who does not care for the instruction given in the śāstras . . . Śāstra. Just like anyone who doesn't care for the law of the state, what kind of man he is? He's a loafer, a outlaw. He's not a respectable citizen. Similarly, anyone who does not follow the śāstric in . . . Śāstras are meant for human being, not for the cats and dogs and hogs, as law is meant for the human being, not for the cats and dogs. Therefore we have to follow the śāstric injunction.
As Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā or Vyāsadeva says in the Purāṇas, in the Vedānta-sūtra, they are meant for . . . as Caitanya Mahāprabhu says:
- anādi bahirmukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli' gelā
- ataeva kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa karila
- (CC Madhya 20.117)
What for these Vedas and Purāṇas are meant? Because we have forgotten Kṛṣṇa. We have forgotten Kṛṣṇa. Therefore to revive our Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so many Vedic literatures are there. So many.
So this life is meant for utilizing this body . . . tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam (SB 5.5.1). Sattva. Sattva, our sattva, or existence, is not now pure. It is . . . because it is not pure, therefore we have to migrate, transmigrate from one body to another according to our desire, according to our karma. Nature is giving you.
Bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā (BG 18.61). We have been given a vehicle. Now we have got this nice vehicle, this human body, vehicle, moving. But if we don't utilize it as human being, then it . . . we shall get another vehicle like dogs and hogs. Sometimes no movement, stand up for seven thousand years as a tree. Not as a tree; as tree. Yes. So this is going on.