Without God consciousness, modern advancement becomes animal-like regression disguised as progress.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 14, 1972, Los Angeles 720914MW-LOS ANGELES [12:20 Minutes] Walk_720914MW-LOS ANGELES Devotee: …childbirth and there are more telephones and refrigerators and then… Prabhupāda: More telephone means [laughs] more expenditure.
Devotee: They have to work less hours. Less hours working. More time for pleasure. [indistinct]
Prabhupāda: That means your tendency is not to work much and enjoy. Then why you have created factories? The rascals. [laughter] Svarūpa Dāmodara: Now that is what the student will answer yesterday.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Svarūpa Dāmodara: He’s, his aim is to do the best that he can do for his fellow human beings.
Prabhupāda: You don’t know what is the best, you are a rascal. You don’t know what is the best you take the worst as best, that is your knowledge. Svarūpa Dāmodara: So I asked how are you going to do it? It’s a nice idea but how are you going to do it?
Unless one centres in the God consciousness then it is impossible to do anything good because we have to understand that we are all controlled by the supreme person.
Prabhupāda: God is good. Generally they know God is good but they do not know, what is the use of your so-called goodness?