We are no more interested with your, these big, big street, big, big buses
or anything, whatever you think that is improvement, advancement.
So Krsna conscious person are no more interested. Why not interested? They
are disgusted. Why disgusted? No, because it is full of danger. Padam padam
yad vipadam [SB 10.14.58]. Here everything appears to be very nice, but
every step there is danger. So the Krsna conscious person knows it, that
although it is decorated very nicely. The New York is a big city.
Twenty-four hours, “dungdungdungdungdungdung-guggugguggugguggug” — fire,
always fire. Every minute there is a fire case. Samsara-davanala-lidha-loka
**. Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura’s description of this material world as
blazing fire… We see big, big cities in America, always in blazing fire.
Still, they like this kind of life. But one who is advanced in Krsna
consciousness, they are no more interested, no more interested. They are
interested back home, back to Godhead.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture Excerpt — London, July 25, 1976
Published on May 05, 2012 18:59