We have to stop this disease, simply repetition of birth and death and disease. If we tolerate . . . you can tolerate, but suppose if I become that child who is being killed by the conspiration of the mother and doctor. So, would I like? This is tribulation; it is going on by nature's law. That child which has taken birth in that womb is not allowed to come out of the mother's womb. He is being killed within the womb, and again he enters another womb; there also he may be killed again. This is the law of nature going on. But they do not know; they do not care. They think that, "This child is being killed—I am safe." But you may also be put into, because death is there. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi. As soon as death is there, you have to accept another body.
So people are in so ignorance, the so-called material civilization—simply in darkness. Very horrible civilization at the present moment, we think. Simply darkness. They do not know the laws of nature; they do not know what is living entity, what is soul, what is God, how things are going on, how nature's law is working. Nothing of the sort. Simply like animals—eat, drink, be merry and enjoy, that's all. This is going on, very horrible civilization at the present moment, and this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is the only movement to enlighten them to come to your senses; don't be carried away by the laws of material nature. Then Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura sings, therefore:
- keno māyār bośe, jāccho bhese'
- khāccho hābuḍubu, bhāi
- (Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Bol from Gītāvalī 1)
"Why you are going, being washed away by the waves of the nature's law?" Jāccho bhese'. Just like in big ocean or in big river, some straw is being carried away by the force of the waves, we are also being carried away by the force of the material laws.
- daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī
- mama māyā duratyayā
- (BG 7.14)