Without understanding the eternal soul beyond the body, human intelligence serves no higher purpose than animal existence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...If they do not change the body,er, dress one day, immediately they are moist in the shirt. Because they do not know how to keep clean. So in India there is no question how to keep clean. They do not know.
They'll not take bath for days together. And he likes stop bathing, so many germs carrying. And he's a first-class person, sāhīb, on account of the wealth. Last maybe.
First-class.[?] Don't take bath, neither wash their mouth or hand. And that is... Hari-śauri: That habit is spreading. I've seen in India. Even the Indian businessmen that come to see you... Prabhupāda: They are imitating. Hari-śauri: Yes.
It's laziness. Prabhupāda: But you see. I take little medicine and I wash hand. But you don't learn it. You remain the same.
You have to... [indistinct—microphone moving] I show example, but you don't do it. What can I do? Hari-śauri: We're learning. Prabhupāda: I do not know how long you'll learn. Hari-śauri: [laughs] It's like you said in Māyāpur, it's a little artificial for us. It's very...
It's not... Prabhupāda: Cleanliness unknown to the Western countries. Hari-śauri: That's a fact. Prabhupāda: Śaucam. Satya-śaucābhyām. Śaucam means cleanliness. The Western people, they do not know what is cleanliness. And therefore brāhmaṇa's another name is śuci, "always clean." Three times bathing, three times changing cloth.
It doesn't matter, loin cloth, but cloth must be changed. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Outer cloth? Prabhupāda: Yes. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Dhoti, like that? Prabhupāda: No, you take bath, you have to change your cloth; it becomes wet. This is cleanliness. Satya-śaucābhyām. Śamena damena brahmacarya, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa [SB 6.1.13]. Tapasyā, the first beginning of tapasyā, is brahmacārī.