Perfect knowledge comes only by hearing from a realized spiritual master without personal interpretation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with Professors — February 19, 1975, Caracas 750219R1-CARACAS [142:25 Minutes] Conv_750219R1-CARACAS [translated throughout by Hṛdayānanda]
Prabhupāda: At the present moment it is required that the leading men should understand the aims of life and introduce it in the society for the general benefit of the human society. The present chaotic position of the society... Just like we see on the road, cars are running with great speed, this way and that way, but they do not know what is the aim of life. Ask any one of them that "What is the aim of life, and why you are running so speedily, and what is the business?" Everyone will say, "I have got business.
I am going hurriedly." And if I ask, "What is that business?" "Business means to earn some money and maintain the family," that's all. So is it a fact that to earn some money and maintain the family or at night sleep or sex indulgence, is that the aim of life? So that is my submission to the heads of the cultural movement. Is that the cultural end, to sleep at night or sex indulgence and at night earn money and maintain the family?
Professor: [Spanish] Hṛdayānanda: [translating] He says that he agrees that the goal of life is not that, but that from his childhood he's been trained in a certain way, and he has not been taught anything else, and how can he achieve a different way of life?
Prabhupāda: Yes, that we are teaching in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, how you can change it. Therefore we asking all leading men to understand this movement and join it. That is our request.
Professor: There is a question I would like to ask. I do know that it is not the aim of life just to earn money, keep your family, go to bed and have sex. But it is part of life. Prabhupāda: That I know also; everyone knows. But beyond that, there must be some aim of life. Professor: But being so...
I think that there is... There should be some kind of humbleness, the necessary humbleness. Prabhupāda: No, humbleness is of course good qualification, but the humbleness you will find in animal also, very humble. If you cut his throat, he will not tell anything. You see?