That is the verdict of Vedic literature. If you say that we have got senses, so in order to keep the body fit, we have to give something for the enjoyment of the senses, that is accepted. Yes. But don't aggravate it. The śāstra says that do not increase artificially the demands of the senses. Then you will be entangled. Just like eating. We have got tongue, we have got belly. We require to eat something for maintaining the body. That's nice—you maintain. But do not try to satisfy the senses, tongue or belly or any other senses unreasonably.
Why? That is unreasonable . . . what is that unreasonable? Tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ (Īśo mantra 1).
What is ordained to you, what is allotted to you, you eat. Just like for human being. Human being—Kṛṣṇa, or God, has given so many nice things. God has given us grains, rice, pulses, vegetables and fruits, flowers—so many—milk. Are they not sufficient for maintaining our body and soul together? Yes. Why not?
Those who are vegetarians . . . simply you take, for example, we, all the members in the temple, we live simply on these things: fruits, vegetables, grains, milk, that's all. So are we dying for want of food? Then why should we eat meat? What is the reason? Simply for satisfaction of the tongue? If I can live peacefully, otherwise which is allotted to me by God, why shall I give trouble to another animal for satisfaction of my tongue? What is the reason?
If you have no food . . . of course, in the deserted country, just like Arabia, simply desert, sand, so for them they can kill some animal and eat, because they cannot die for want of food. But here, in America, you have got sufficient foodstuff. Why should you kill animals? You have got sufficient grains, sufficient food, sufficient milk, and is it very nice thing that you take milk from the cow, who is your mother, and kill at the same time? Is that very good reason?
Oh, therefore Ṛṣabhadeva says that this human form of body is not meant for mismanaging the whole thing for the satisfaction of the senses. That is not meant for human being. Nāyaṁ nṛloke. Nṛloke: a human society. He is speaking to the human society. We are speaking to the human society. We are not calling cats and dogs, "Come here. Please hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam." That is not possible. They cannot. But we are inviting those who are enlightened human being, "Please come. Just try to understand what is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and be happy." That's all. We want to see every human being to be happy. That is our program.
So Ṛṣabhadeva says, kaṣṭān kāmān. Just like we are not criticizing the modern method of living—of course, automatically it becomes criticized—but we are speaking from the śāstras. He says, Ṛṣabhadeva says, kaṣṭān kāmān. For your sense gratification do not arrange something very dangerous, or very tiresome, laborsome. Make your life simplified, that is allotted by Kṛṣṇa. We have got in . . . a place, New Vrindaban, in West Virginia. With little effort they produce so much vegetables that they cannot eat, they cannot finish. They cannot finish.