Don't waste precious human life pursuing material advancement; only Krishna consciousness provides real protection and progress.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: .... ayatnataḥ, nobody is very careful to invite distress. Everyone is working very hard, undergoing severe austerities, penances, for becoming happy not for becoming distressed. But distress overcomes us even without any endeavor, without any austerities, it comes always. Prahlāda Mahārāja says that as distress comes without any endeavor similarly because you have got a particular type of body so your standard of happiness is already there.
Why you are wasting time for improving your standard of. The whole world is struggling with standard, in India independence means they are trying to bring it—the Western ways of life, technology, industry. But they do not know that Indian body is specially meant for something else—spiritual realization. That is indicated by Lord Caitanya: bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya janma haila yāra janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra [Cc Ādi 9.41] [One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India [Bhārata-varṣa] should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people.] The Indian body is especially meant for spiritual cultivation.
These rascals they do not know. They are simply imitating artificially therefore they take up, copy, everything is chaos, to put horse before a cart. Indian body is especially meant for spiritual culture. We have just been, saw in the Kumbha-melā, millions of people simply coming for taking a dip into the Ganges.
Without any advertisment, without any propaganda. Why? Automatically they are inclined to make spiritual advancement. They are so faithful that it is in the śāstra it is written that during Māgha-melā, if one lives there for one month and takes a dip in to the Ganges and confluence of Ganges and Yamunā at such-and-such time.
Just see.. A big city was constructed, unique in the world. You can not find in any other part of the world a people who are so much religiously, I mean to say enthusiastic. But these rascals, they do not know.
They are bringing in technology for India. This is very important point. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says that: sukham aindriyakaṁ daityā deha-yogena dehinām [SB 7.6.3] [Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: My dear friends born of demoniac families, the happiness perceived with reference to the sense objects by contact with the body can be obtained in any form of life, according to one's past fruitive activities. Such happiness is automatically obtained without endeavor, just as we obtain distress.] The happiness, standard of happiness is according to this body you have got.
So you have got Indian body, why you are trying for technology? Duḥkham ayatnataḥ [SB.7.6.3]: so it is a platform of cooperation therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that those who have got Indian body their duty is to utulize the instructions, the books, the philosophy, the religious procedure left by great sages. Especially by Vyāsadeva, by Nārada, by Asita, by Devala, the six Gosvāmīs, ṣaḍ-gosvāmīs. It is their duty, to study all these literatures, to assimilate their purpose.