The entire civilization stumbles blindly, mistaking the coat for the man within it, ignoring the eternal soul.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star — October 16, 1975, Johannesburg 751016R1-JOHANNESBURG [16:25 Minutes] Conv_751016R1-JOHANNESBURG Reporter: Your Grace, can I start by asking you what do you think of South Africa?
Prabhupāda: [to Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa] That you can reply. [to reporter] Just preach this cult, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I was expected since a long time. So I could not come here due to my other engagements.
Reporter: Yes. What are your views of the country? What do you think of it?
Prabhupāda: Every country is all right. I don't find any fault. But only difficulty is that all over the world the civilization is being misdirected.
Reporter: Misguided. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Misdirected.
Prabhupāda: Misdirected. They are not taking importance of the right thing. Just like we are in this body. Now, when the body is dead, we cry that "My father is gone away," "My son is gone away." But if I reply that "Your father is lying on the bed.
Why you're crying that your father has gone away?" what will be the reply? The father whom the son has seen since his birth, that body in the coat and pant, so that coat-pant and body is there on the bed, and why the son is crying, "My father has gone away"? What is the reply? What should be the reply?