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So śāstra says that,

[Madhya 19.75]

If you decorate a dead body, it may be very fanciful to the people, that "This dead body is decorated …

So similarly, this body is dead. That's a fact. It is dead from the very beginning, because it is matter. …

When Bhagavad-gītā was taught to Arjuna, Arjuna was lamenting for this body. So Kṛṣṇa, when He was accepted Arjuna's spiritual …

So without knowledge of this, sa eva go-kharaḥ, just like cats and dogs, they cannot understand how he is moving. …

So you can expand in so many ways. Īśa-rikta. Īśa-rikta means without God, without God, īśa-rikta. So we living entities, …

There is a story that one beautiful woman was hunted by another man. So he was wooing, canvassing, but she …

So these are actually knowledge. People are after something false. That is called māyā. Māyā means which is not actually …

So people do not understand it, that without Kṛṣṇa, without God, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, simply we are wasting our time, …

That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, na vidur āsurā janāḥ, pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidur āsurāḥ [Bg. 16.7]. …

Here is practical example, Arjuna is giving, that "I have got the same arrow, I have got the same bow. …

Therefore your knowledge, university, advancement of civilization, will be perfect when it is properly carried with God consciousness. Otherwise it …

[SB 7.5.31]

The modern civilization, they are so rascals, they are expecting something utopian, that by material advancement of civilization they will …

Devotee: [indistinct]

Prabhupāda: Yes. He said that in Sweden they are the richest men, but the largest number of suicide cases are …

So this kind of civilization will not help. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad... So therefore they do not know what is …

So why? Because na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā [SB 7.5.31]. Their real fault is that they are trying …

So these so-called scientists, philosophers, they are very much advanced, but their only business is how to become happy in …