True civilization elevates the soul beyond animal consciousness to inquire into eternal spiritual reality.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Peyecha mānava janma, emana janma āra pābe nā. [You have been blessed with a human birth, you may not receive it again.] Manuṣya-janama pāiyā, rādhā-kṛṣṇa nā bhajiyā. You can very easily do it. And neglect it simply by dog race, four-legged, four-wheel race.
They have no knowledge. Anthill. I have given the name. Anthill? Kārtikeya Mahadevia: Anthill. Prabhupāda: Yes.
These big, big buildings, anthill. And these four-wheel cars—dog-race. What is the difference between the anthill and the skyscraper building? Kārtikeya Mahādevia: [Transl. Human beings lives in the anthill.] More modern only. Prabhupāda: The same thing.
They are also living in the holes, and we have made some holes. Bhavānanda: Even in Africa, we saw some anthills that were as big as skyscrapers. Prabhupāda: Ācchā? Bhavānanda: Big, big. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Twenty foot. Bhavānanda: Twenty-foot anthills. Kārtikeya Mahādevia: Even more than ten foot of the height. More than ten foot. Prabhupāda: If more men come, then I shall describe all this anthill civilization. "Health." Nonsense, what "health"?
He'll be kicked out immediately. Kārtikeya Mahādevia: Even healthy development. Prabhupāda: No, who is healthy if he's going to die? "I am so healthy that I am going to die tomorrow." This is their health. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Illusion. They don't know. Every one of those questions was about the body. Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa said, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg 2.20].
That is healthy, when you do not die even the body is destroyed. And that is healthy life. What is this healthy life? The body is finished and everything, everything is...
Actually everything is finished. And to keep people in that ignorance—"The body is finished; everything is finished"—that's not the fact. Kṛṣṇa very clearly said, na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācin na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg 2.20]. They do not question even how it is possible.