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Friday, March 12, 2010
They fall down.
They fall down.
Prabhupada, Bombay, December 29, 1976: [...] Here yesterday I went to Malar to some friend’s house. How they are living, middle-class men. In Bombay especially we see they are living very awkward position, not very comfortable life. Still, they stick to the city life, and if we call them, “Come to Hyderabad. We shall give you nice place, nice food, nice milk, nice cloth. That is your problem. We shall give you. Please come and live with us,” “No.” Therefore it is called hog civilization. Hog, they are living in a filthy place, eating stool. If you request the hog, “Please come with me. I shall give you nice place to live in. I shall give you halava,” they’ll not come. So this is the position.
Therefore they fall down. Fall down means from our spiritual identification we fall down to material identification, upadhi. Material identification, upadhi, designation. I am now speaking, “I am Indian,” but “Indian,” that is (not) my designation. I am neither Indian nor European. You are not Indian, European. We are giving more stress on the designation. That is the mistake of modern civlization. And in the sastra such persons who designate himself with this body, they have been described as go-kharah, sa eva go- kharah [SB 10.84.13]. So we shall be very careful. Take to Krsna consciousness.