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In human society, whether you are a Christian or a Muhammadan or a Hindu or a Buddhist, it doesn’t matter And human society without religion – animal society. This is the plain fact.

But we devotees of Kṛṣṇa have a clear conception of God. Here is God: Kṛṣṇa.

is also a living being, but he’s not interested in what is being discussed here about Bhagavad-gītā or That is the distinction between man and dog: the animal is not interested.

And how can there be happiness or peace in animal society? The big leaders want to keep the citizenry as animals, and at the same time they are striving to make

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, this questionnaire was sent to you by Bhavan’s Journal, a cultural and

So that is the idea of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement – to remove the cataract from people’s religious

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes. This is predicted in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam [12.2.1]:

tataś cānu-dinaṁ dharmaḥ satyaṁ śaucaṁ kṣamā dayā kālena balinā rājan naṅkṣyaty āyur balaṁ smṛtiḥ

“In Kali-yuga, this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, there shall be a waning of these qualities: religiosity , truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, memory, bodily strength, duration of life, and mercy.”

Generally, modern so-called religious leaders have no conception of God, and yet they are preaching religion

Today that is going on in the field of religion: there is no conception of God and therefore no following

veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ barhāvataṁsam asitāmbudha-sundarāṅgam kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

is bedecked with a peacock’s feather, whose figure of beauty is tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and

And if there is no conception of God, where is the question of religion? Bogus. That is why religiosity and the other noble human qualities are declining. People have no conception of God, and therefore there is no understanding of religion. And because it is declining, human beings are becoming more and more like animals.