Everyone in the material world is frustrated, but only the wise recognize it and surrender to Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 15, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750915MW-VRNDAVAN [26:27 Minutes] Walk_750915MW-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: ...Brahmānanda explain. Trying for sense gratification. They do not know it, that what is the purpose of life. Brahmānanda: That is their ignorance.
Prabhupāda: So our mission is to eradicate this ignorance, that they are living in a wrong conception of life. That is the point. The human society is making so-called progress under wrong conception of life. Hmm?
What is the answer? Therefore they have been described as mūḍha because they are living in a wrong conception, animal life. Wherefrom you have come? Vāsughoṣa: Kathmandu.
Tonight I will go to Hyderabad. I am collecting there. But one thing I find even when we explain to these people, you know... Just like smoking cigarettes.
In Kathmandu I was explaining to people, "What kind of enjoyment is this from smoking cigarettes? You are coughing..." This is the way Acyutānanda Swami also describes, so I picked up from him. "You are coughing. You are killing yourself." He also described like this, "Intoxication means poison.
Toxic means poison. So this is intoxication. You are actually administering poison. What kind of sanity is this?" So all those people, they told me, "Well, I'll give up cigarettes later." Prabhupāda: At least they admit the fault, hmm?
Do they? Vāsughoṣa: Yes, some people... One hippie I was talking to, he was saying, "I believe in technology and Darwin's theory of evolution." So I said, "The greatest technologists in America have said that cigarettes can kill you. Why are you smoking these cigarettes?" He said, "Yes, I want to give it up," but he kept on smoking.