True advancement means Krishna consciousness; without it, so-called progress becomes machines of misery.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 30, 1973, Los Angeles 730430MW-LOS ANGELES [34:30 Minutes] Walk_730430MW-LOS ANGELES Devotee: [introducing recording] Prabhupāda's morning walk, April 30th, 1973, Los Angeles.
Prabhupāda: ...things of value, they're disappearing. Just like formerly people used to have some dishes of valuable metals. Now it is plastic. This is the advancement.
Prabhupāda: It's... Svarūpa Dāmodara: [laughs] That's what they call.
Prabhupāda: Rascals, they are thinking it is advancement. And if he goes to sell the plastic plates, nobody will pay even cent. But one of those metal plate, if he's in difficulty, he can get some money. This is scientific advancement.
Instead of gold coins, now there is papers: "I trust in God. We trust in God." Cheating, "We trust in God." Take hundred dollars. And what is the hundred dollars? The paper.
"We trust in God." By the name of God, I give you. And it is scientific. That's all. Svarūpa Dāmodara: They call it convenience.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Svarūpa Dāmodara: They call it convenience.