True civilization protects cows and produces food from land, not through slaughter and industrial dependency.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.4 — November 25, 1973, London 731125SB-LONDON [37:05 Minutes] SB-01.10.04_731125SB-LONDON Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] kāmaṁ vavarṣa parjanyaḥ sarva-kāma-dughā mahī siṣicuḥ sma vrajān gāvaḥ payasodhasvatīr mudā [SB 1.10.4] [break] Prabhupāda: Anyone can do it? Pradyumna: Tenth Chapter, text 4. [break] [01:00] Translation: "During the reign of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the clouds showered all the water that people needed, and the earth produced all the necessities of man in profusion. Due to its fatty milk bag and cheerful attitude, the cow used to moisten the grazing ground with milk." Prabhupāda: Kāmam.
Dharmārtha-kāma-mokṣa [SB 4.8.41]. In the human society, to make everything very regulated, the prescription is dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa. Dharma means to be situated in one's position. That is called dharma.
Dharma is not a kind of faith. Faith is sometimes blind. That is not dharma. Just like we say, varṇāśrama-dharma.
Cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam [Bg. 4.13]. Varṇa. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra; brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha, sannyāsī. This combination of eight makes dharma, constitutional position. Everyone is animal.
So if one is not trained up in these eight principles of human society, so that is not dharma; it is sentiment. Less-intelligent class of men, they manufacture some process of so-called dharma, sentiment, but that does not stand very long. It will vanquish. But if dharma is accepted on the principles of this varṇāśrama-dharma, that is...
For material purpose. That is not for spiritual purpose. Although there is hint of spiritual life, still, they are prākṛta. So dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa [SB 4.8.41, Cc. Ādi 1.90]. Dharma means to stay in one's constitutional position.
That is dharma. Artha means keeping oneself in one's constitutional position to get livelihood, artha. Without artha, livelihood, kāma, the sense gratification, or fulfilling the needs of life... That is kāma.