Use your precious human life to chant Hare Krishna and return to Godhead, not to pursue temporary bodily comforts.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — February 21, 1975, Caracas 750221MW-CARACAS [33:05 Minutes] Walk_750221MW-CARACAS [translated throughout by Hṛdayānanda] Prabhupāda: University education is simply to learn some art, materialistic art. It is not education. Education is different. Education is brahma-vidyā, self-realization.
But these people, because they have no standard, they change every moment, every year. Nature's way—the sun is rising from the eastern side—that is standard. [chuckles] These rascals, they will say, "Let the sun rise from the north." It is childish, simply childish. "Eastern philosophers, Western..." What is this philosophy?
Philosophy is philosophy. Why they talk of Eastern, Western? "Eastern sun, western sun." Sun is always eastern, never western. How one can say, "western sun?" [break] Just see.
It is in the water, but the water is not over it. If the water increases, it also increases. See? There is no water on the leaf.
Here you see. The water must be always down. [break] ...falling from the top of the Sumeru Hill, a big tree, and the juice, after falling down, turns into a river of mango juice. And [indistinct], the blackberries, they are just like the body of elephant, and small seed. They also turn into river, Jambu-nada.
And the both sides of the river, being moistened by the juice and dried by air and interacted by the sunshine, it becomes gold. And that gold is used for the denizens of heaven for their ornaments, helmets, bracelet, belt. Where is gold here? Paper.
They cannot make even gold coins. They are reducing into poverty. In our childhood we have seen gold coin currency, silver coin. And now there is no such thing.