Industrial civilization cannot stop the soul's transmigration; only Krishna consciousness offers true liberation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Arrival — January 29, 1974, Tokyo 740129AR-TOKYO [50:47 Minutes] Arrival_740129AR-TOKYO Prabhupāda: The government export then import. [Hindi conversation with Indian man] Have kīrtana. [kīrtana] [chants prema-dhvani] [12:45] The child is responsive. The child is responsive.
Prabhupāda: [laughs] He was seeing this playing of mṛdaṅga. How old?
Prabhupāda: Five months. So these Japanese boys, they cannot understand English?
Devotee: No, but if you would like to say something, either Mahā-guṇa or Vana can translate. They would like to hear you speak.
Prabhupāda: [devotee translating into Japanese throughout] When I was coming to this temple, I saw Japanese people are very industrialist. Industrialism means karma, and karma means to work hard for the comfort of this body. But we are not this body; we are spirit soul within this body, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā: dehino 'smin yathā dehe [Bg. 2.13]. The real owner of the body is within this.
So, so long our mind will be absorbed in the bodily concept of life, we have to accept another body after death. And to accept another body means great trouble. Just like this child, when he was within the womb of the mother for ten months, packed up… Of course, by nature’s arrangement one can live, but actually it is very troublesome. Then after coming out of the body, the child is helpless.
He cannot express these troubles—sometimes cry. If mother is careful, takes care; otherwise he is in great trouble. Suppose some ant is biting, he cannot express; he cries simply, and mother also cannot detect why the child is crying. This is the position.