Paramahaṁsa: People argue that, "God has given us our intelligence and our senses, and therefore we must enjoy."
Prabhupāda: Yes. You enjoy. The dog is also enjoying. What you are enjoying more than the dog? Dog also eat; you also eat. Dog also sleep; you also sleep. Dogs also enjoy sex life; you also enjoy sex life. Dog is also afraid of his enemy; you are also afraid of your enemy. So what is the difference between you and dog? Why you claim that you have become very great? What is the difference between the dog's mentality and your mentality? God has given you intelligence to understand that you are nothing, God is everything. Just realize it. That is intelligence. That is intelligence. When you understand that, "God is great. I am His servant," that is real reali . . . that is his intelligence. Otherwise, he's exactly like the dog. What is his intelligence?
Paramahaṁsa: But people today have reasoned God is dead with their intelligence.
Prabhupāda: God is not dead; your intelligence is dead. You have got a dead body, and you are proud of it. Eh? Decoration of the dead body. And you are decorating the dead body. The body's dead. That's a fact. Because as soon as you, soul, get out, it is dead body. But the body's already there. That means I am occupying a dead body. So long I am there, it is working only. But the body's dead. And you are decorating the dead body. You are so intelligent. You are interested with a dead body. And you have no intelligence to see that it actually it is dead body. Because as soon as I will go away, it is dead body. The body is dead, but . . . just like motorcar: it is dead. If there is no petrol, it is dead. Similarly, your body is dead. That try to understand. And if somebody decorates a dead body, is he very intelligent?
Bhagavān: No.
Prabhupāda: Then? Your all acquisition is decoration of the dead body. That is a verse, aprāṇasya hi dehasya mandanaṁ loka-rañjanam (Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya 3.11). Loka-rañjanam. You can get some rascal and fool, some applause, "Oh, you are so nice. You are decorating dead body." But intelligent man will say: "What a fool he is that he's decorating a dead body. That's all."