Prabhupada, Paris, June 12, 1974: […] So family you’ll find everywhere. Even the birds, they have family, two birds, always together, the husband and wife. They have got a nest, and some eggs also. And they are also trying to, I mean to say, manufacture some nest.
As soon as the lady bird is pregnant, they, immediately their attempt will be to find out some straw and make a nest. You have seen it perhaps, studied it. You see? So long the lady bird is not pregnant, there is no question of nest. This is natural.
You’ll find everywhere. Even the ants and the birds, beasts, everywhere. So this kutumba-bharanam (family maintenance) is a duty of living entity. It doesn’t matter whether he’s a human being or a dog or a bird or a cat. That is natural. That is not very great credit.
But the present yuga, Kali-yuga, if one can maintain his family and maintain an apartment, he’s to be understood as a very great, successful man. He does not see that this success is there even in the ants and the birds and the beasts. What is this success? And he’s happy. And he’s happy.
How he’s happy? Now deha. Deha means this body. He thinks, “I have got this strong body, very stout and strong body; by exercising, by yogic practice, I have become very strong.” So what is that strength? Will you not die? “Yes, I’ll die, but after few years.” So he is very much fond of his deha, sarira, deha. Full Lecture
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