Vedic civilization means that people were trained up in such a way that ultimately he comes to the transcendental platform and he understands his real position in this world, his relationship with God, and he acts accordingly, so that he gets the chance of utilizing this human form of life to the best possibility. That means to end this wandering in the cycle of 8,400,000 species of life and get oneself out of this entanglement. That is the perfection of human civilization. Human civilization does not mean that to improve the process of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. That is not human civilization. That may be called a civilization, but that is external; that is not internal.
We are not this external body, but we are internal soul. That we must understand. That is possible to be understood in the human form of life, not in other form of life. The cats and dogs, they cannot distinguish what is internal and what is external. That is not possible for them. But the human society, human being, is endowed with such nice development of consciousness that there is automatic enquiry, which is explained in the Vedānta-sūtra as athāto brahma jijñāsā, enquiry. Enquiry about the soul, athāto brahm . . . this human form of life is meant for understanding what I am.