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One of the two dogs in Scandinavia.
People have become so misguided, they are memorizing. In our country some astrologer has said that one big politician, he has become one of the two dogs in Scandinavia! Now here for this material body, they have erected museum, and statues, and being worshiped by so many methods, but the spirit soul -- which was the politician actually, not this body -- he has taken birth as a dog. This is the understanding. Where the politician has gone and how what he is doing, they do not know. But they are concerned with the body. My Guru Maharaja used to say, (aside:) yes? "That one man is drowned, and another brave man comes -- I'll save him." As he jumps over the water and brings the coat and shirt, "Now this man is saved." So what people will say, what a nonsense he is, he has brought his coat and shirt and the man is saved? Similarly, these rascals, they are dealing with the coat and shirt of the living entity but they have no knowledge in the university or anywhere where the soul has gone. These rascals have no knowledge. They are simply concerned with this external body. Those who are interested only with this external body, not those who are, ninety-nine percent population, they are interested in this bodily concept of life. Perhaps we are the only institution in the world which is teaching that you are not this body. This is the wonder of Krsna Consciousness movement. We are the only institution throughout the whole world that we are teaching people that "My dear sir, you are not this body. You are different from the body, and after death you get another body." Tatha dehantara-praptir. Simple education in the Bhagavad-gita. They do not understand. There are big, big scholars, rascals, all rascals. Our difficulty is these rascals are going on as scholar, dehatma-buddhih. Their life is bodily concept of life and they are passing as scientists, scholars, leaders, politicians and they are leading us andha yathandhair. They are blind and they are leading us, so we have, we are also put into difficulty. So only this Krsna Consciousness movement can save the human civilization and get him raised to the platform of the gopis. We have got such nice thing, these gopis' unalloyed Krsna love. That is wanted.
Prabhupada's lecture:
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.9.40
New York, October 23, 1973