Human life is too valuable to waste on temporary adjustments; only Krishna consciousness solves civilization's problems.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Now you have to do so many things. [laughs] Again, another burden. You have to do all these things. So how your preaching? Girirāja: Very good.
Haridāsa had gone to Poona, and in two days he made four Life Members, and he was getting a chance to meet some big people, so he asked me to come. It was very nice. I met one young man, about thirty years old. He's one of the nicest men I've met in a long time.
He really agreed with everything we were saying, and he's... Prabhupāda: Śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ [SB 2.3.19]. Girirāja: Well, he agreed that the modern civilization is a failure and that people are not happy, that people were more happy before. Prabhupāda: It is a dangerous civilization. You... You should... [pause as things are moved around] Dangerous civilization that labdhvā su-durlabham idaṁ bahu-sambhavānte [SB 11.9.29]. After many, many millions of years one gets the chance of becoming a human being, especially civilized and especially in India.
They will bring the same. And Kṛṣṇa personally says that if this chance is missed and a person does not become God realized, then he again returns back to the..., to the... Today I am a prime minister; tomorrow, if I become a dog, what is this civilization? And they will have to become.
Nature's law we cannot avoid. There, there is no question, "Why you are touching me? I am prime minister." Who cares for you? You have to take account of your activities, karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa [SB 3.31.1]. So human life is so important, and we are simply wasting this valuable life with this temporary adjustment of so-called happiness and distress—big, big plans.
Simply bluffing. Indira Gandhi, garibiyana hatāo: "Poverty drive away." Now she is poverty-stricken. "Oh, you want to drive away poverty? Now drive away your own poverty.
Where is your position? How you can drive away? You do not dare to come out, twelve nights." Within one day. Who has made it?