True civilization requires spiritual knowledge of life's purpose, not merely technological advancement or material exploitation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...he wasted fifty years. Twenty years in Durban and thirty years in India. Gurudāsa: Twenty years in...? Prabhupāda: In Durban. South Africa. Fighting with General Smuts to give Indians equal rights.
They are very conservative. At heart they want "Indians may go away." They don't want Indians. And if they want, it is for their own benefit. The Indians are given some place to develop as marketplace, and as soon as they develop, they ask, "Go there.
Leave this place. Go away, other place." This is going on. And they know very well, politicians. The Indians have been given a place where nearby there is a slaughterhouse.
They know Indians are sentimental, at least for cow slaughtering. Whole night slaughtering is going on, and there are screaming of the animals. Whole night. Even those who are meat-eaters, they will be disturbed.
So the purpose is that "Let them live near the slaughterhouse, so by sentiment they are disgusted, leave this country." They don't want the Asians, especially Indians, and especially due to Gandhi, because they know, due to Gandhi... At least Gandhi organized the public opinion against the Britishers by this noncooperation movement. They were not affected by the... Affected in this way, that public opinion was against them.
That is also organization. Otherwise Gandhi's method was not harmful to them, this noncooperation, nonviolent. That did not help. But he influenced the public opinion against them. Rāmeśvara: All over the world. Prabhupāda: Yes.
That Hitler also did. Pāñch lāge to bhūta bhāge: "If five men combine together, even the ghost will go away." [laughs] So everyone was against the Britishers, how they can keep their...? And nature's law also. They exploited the whole world for the benefit of few persons in London, and that is very bad. Gurudāsa: You told me they wanted to be paid in gold by the Home Bill, just to deplete the economy. Prabhupāda: Yes.