Modern civilization enslaves humans in darkness about death and the soul's eternal journey beyond material life.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupada: ... And the master. They should be chained, and they're let lose.
Amogha: They think that catching fish is great sport, great fun.
Prabhupada: What bussiness. They haven't got any business. They must do all of these sinful activities. That is the defect of the modern civilization—keeping all men in darkness.
Jayadharma: Does that mean that the people that catch, catch the. Prabhupada does that mean that the people that catch fish have to also become a fish?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. You will become fish. That they do not know, how the migration of the..., transmigration of the soul is going on. They cannot explain wherefrom the fishes are coming, wherefrom the trees are coming.
Everything in darkness. And this civilization, dark civilization, is going on, in the name of civilization. They cannot explain what is death, what is next life. Sometimes they say, "It is nature," but how nature is working, they do not know.
All darkness, mūḍhā na abhijānāti, mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam [Bg. 7.13]. The birds and beasts, they are also catching fish, and they are also catching. Where is the difference? What is the difference?