Prabhupada, Los Angeles, August 22, 1972: The whole world is moving by lust and greediness. This is the stage of ignorance and passion. Those who are embarrassed with the lower qualities of material nature, they are embarrassed with two things: lust, not satisfied; and greedy, and lobha.
“Give me more, give me more, give me more.” “Give me…” Anything, he’s not satisfied. The whole world, you see… They, sometimes they think that “If I get my income, say, one thousand dollars, I will be satisfied.” But as soon as he gets one thousand, he wants one hundred thousand. If he gets one… Just like in your… Everywhere, all over the world, the worker class, they are given increment, but again they undergo strike, “More, more wages, more wages, more wages.”
So… But as soon as they get more money… Not only… Here in these Western countries, then they’ll utilize it for lust. Lust and greediness. That’s all. They do not know how to utilize money. That a millionaire is so lusty that… I have seen in Paris.
They are going to some clubs. What is the business in that club? Old men, they are going. So lusty that they enter the club by paying fifty dollars, and then there is young women and wine, and that is their pleasure. Lust, kama-lobhadayas ca ye.
One thing, one side, they are not satisfied, even they have got millions of dollars, “Still I want, still I want, still I want.” This is one side, greediness, lobha, and the other side is lust. This is called kama-lobhadayas ca ye.
So to become Krsna conscious means immediately—that is the test— immediately he will become free from lust and greediness. If he’s not free from lust and greediness, he is making a show; he’s not Krsna conscious. This is the test. If one is actually advanced in Krsna consciousness, then these two symptoms will be visible in his character: no more lusty, no more greediness.
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