Spiritualistic means siddhi, perfection. Who cares for perfection? Bring money and enjoy. That’s all. Who cares for perfection? They do not know what is perfection. They think that you get money, you live comfortably as far as possible, and after death, everything’s finished. Is it not? This is the philosophy. Who cares to know that there is life after death and better life, better planet, better world? This is not at all good, it is full of miseries. They are driving all day, car, but they do not think it is tiresome. They think it is pleasure.
To have a car and drive whole day, they do not feel that is tiresome. They think “I have got a car, I’m driving, people are seeing. It is pleasure.”
Parivrajakacarya: It is madness, how they can enjoy a city like that?
Prabhupada: But we do not deprecate. We simply say that do whatever you like, but do not forget your real business, self- realization, atma-tattvam. Self-realization, that is required. And if we live like cats and dogs and again become cats and dogs and pigs, that is not success. But there is chance if one does not know atma-tattva. Nature’s law will work. Karanam guna-sango ’sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu. Hare Krsna.
Room Conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
August 8, 1976, Tehran
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