Prabhupāda: (referring to ants) Just see. One second, thousands came.
Bhakti-caru: (Bengali)
Prabhupāda: How quickly they come! Just see. And wherefrom they get out of?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, how do they find out about it? That's what I don't understand.
Prabhupāda: That they know.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They were all over, and the medicine was up here.
Prabhupāda: Come just like magic, they come.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, how is it? I can't understand it. I really don't understand it.
Girirāja: Acintya-śakti.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It must be Supersoul telling them...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...that there's something here. Do they smell it? No.
Prabhupāda: Anyway, they are also living entities like us. Whenever there is some sense of enjoyment, they flock together.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They are (indistinct).
Prabhupāda: They are expert more than us. You cannot go. Suppose there is one lakh of rupees downstairs. You can get it. You cannot go in one minute. They can do.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So they're better than us?
Prabhupāda: They're expert. Suppose if I, if somebody informs that "In the corner of the temple there is one lakh of rupees. Somebody has left," you cannot go in one minute. It will take at least ten minutes. But here it is kept-immediately. So how much expert they are. Just imagine. So why you are so proud that you are scientist, you are expert? You nothing.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Here they come again.
Prabhupāda: Everyone is working under nature's law. They are working under nature's law in such a way. You cannot do that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Just see. They are already in it again.
Prabhupāda: There are many, many experts from the lower-grade creatures. Ant hill. You are spending so much money for skyscraper building. The ant, they construct big hill as their residential quarters. Where they get their food? Where they get their...? But they are living. This is nature's study. Now you can... So what is this? Āhāra-nidrā. For eating. So for these four principles—eating, sleeping, sex, and defense—everyone knows. But the human society, they have made it a problem. These small ants, they also require those things, but they have no problem. For defense they don't require atomic weapon. They know in their own way how to defend. Cats, dogs, animals—everyone knows. Struggling. Our human society, advanced, means they are perplexed with these problems. The human life was meant for self-realization. That problem left, they have created some problems which the animals can solve in their own way. This is the present society. This political struggle and..., what is their aim, objective? To solve these problems. Nothing more. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma (SB 5.5.4), indriya-prītaye, these four principles, sense gratification. The ant is also struggling. They wanted to enjoy the little sugar in the here. We have driven him. That's a problem. They have to find out somewhere else.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Still they're...
Prabhupāda: Expecting. Hope against hope. This is struggle. That they do not see. They do... We have got this valuable life. What we are doing? We are doing the same thing as the small ants do. So what is the difference between that life and this life? Therefore Kṛṣṇa comes that "This is not your business. Your business is to surrender unto Me." Sarva-dharmān parityajya (BG 18.66). That will be solved automatically. But they don't. They take advantage of Bhagavad-gītā and apply it for solving these problems. Gandhi and Bhagavad-gītā —what is that? Political struggle. Such a rascal. And he's leader? He does not know what is the purpose of Bhagavad-gītā. Has Kṛṣṇa come down to speak how to defend, how to eat, how to sleep? Is there any statement there? Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 18.66). Solve this problem. This is the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā. And who, nonsense, understands this? Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti (BG 18.66). This teaching... This is a teaching of Bhagavad-gītā. And they are taking Bhagavad-gītā for solving these problems. That's all. Ants' struggle. Violence, nonviolence and... So such big, big rascals are guiding us. What benefit they have given?