Vedic civilization's sophistication proves superior to modern materialism, undermined only by cultural abandonment through foreign conquest.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 18, 1972, Los Angeles 720918MW-LOS ANGELES [18:33 Minutes] Walk_720918MW-LOS ANGELES Svarūpa Dāmodara: Śrīla Prabhupāda’s morning walk talk, September 18, Monday 1972. Los Angeles.
Prabhupāda: First-generation. But what provision was made by our past generation? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Materially no.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Svarūpa Dāmodara: No significant value in the material sense but.
Devotee: They made no provision but everything was here.
Prabhupāda: So, so why they are anxious to make provision for the future generation? Karāndhara: Because the... What we are enjoying now is due to their work, the telephone was invented and developed and the aeroplanes.
Prabhupāda: That’s all right, so these provisions were not made by our past forefathers. We have done it, is it not? Karāndhara: Oh well they were... [indistinct] and developed.
Prabhupāda: When this was done? When it was to be done? Karāndhara: Well say eighty or ninety years ago.