Divine qualities demand we transcend animal consciousness and surrender completely to Krishna's protection.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
ī[q>aGavaNauvac ) A>aYa& SatvSa&īuiṬjaRNaYaaeGaVYaviSQaiTa" ) daNa& dMaê Yajê SvaDYaaYaSTaPa AaJaRvMa( )) 1 )) Aih&Saa SaTYaMa§-aeDaSTYaaGa" XaaiNTarPaEīuNaMa( ) dYaa >aUTaeZvl/aelu/PTv& MaadRv& hqrcaPal/Ma( )) 2 )) TaeJa" +aMaa Da*iTa" XaaEcMad]aehae NaaiTaMaaiNaTaa ) >aviNTa SaMPad& dEvqMai>aJaaTaSYa >aarTa )) 3 )) Dhṛṣṭadyumna: "...performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity, nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, renunciation, tranquility, aversion to fault-finding, compassion and freedom from covetousness, gentleness, modesty and steady determination, vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from envy and the passion for honor—these transcendental qualities, O son of Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature." [Bg 16.1-3] "In the beginning of the Fifteenth Chapter the banyan tree of this material world was explained. The extra roots coming out of it were compared to the activities of the living entities, some auspicious, some inauspicious. In the Ninth Chapter also the devas, or godly, and the asuras, the ungodly, or demons, were explained. Now, according to Vedic rites, activities in the mode of goodness are considered auspicious for progress on the path of liberation, and such activities are known as daivī prakṛti, transcendental by nature.
Those who are situated in the transcendental nature make progress..." Prabhupāda: The defect of modern civilization is that they have no idea about liberation. Neither they have any idea about transmigration of the soul. From the very root, they are defective. They are thinking...
Just like animals. Animals... Dog is thinking that "I am this dog. I am born dog and I'll die, just finish, everything." He cannot think that "I can become also man." He cannot think that.
So the modern civilization, they cannot think even that there is next life and we can go... They have got the tendency to go to the higher planetary system, moon. Artificially, they are trying, but they do not know. Just like they can go to any planet, sarva-ga.
Yānti deva-vratā devān pitṛn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ [Bg 9.25]. They do not know this, although they have got the tendency to go. But they do not know how to go, positively what are the position of the different planets or Vaikuṇṭha-loka or liberation or next life, transmigration—nothing of the sort. Simply like dogs. Now consider this point, whether I'm speaking right or wrong.
I know I am speaking the right thing, but if you deny, then you talk amongst yourselves. Devotee (1): Śrīla Prabhupāda, they think that liberation means that you can do anything you like, that you are free from any moral or ethic... Prabhupāda: That is the rascaldom. That is rascaldom. Just like in prison house, if a prisoner thinks that he can do whatever he likes, that is rascaldom. That is going on.
The modern civilization is rascaldom. He is seeing practically that he's under the control of material nature, and still he thinks that "I can do whatever I like." This is rascaldom. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The Christian conception of salvation was more one of being saved from hell rather than an attraction for some transcendental reality. Prabhupāda: Christian conception... But mass of people, they do not know what is hell because they are living in the hell already.