Prabhupāda: . . . go-kharaḥ. Anything evolving on the bodily concept of life, he remains an animal. That is the defect of the Western philosophy.
(break) . . .philosophy, the dog's tail. He is always this way, material way. (break)
- . . .buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke
- sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma-idya-dhīḥ
- yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij
- janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ
- (SB 10.84.13)
Go means cow; kharaḥ means ass. (break) . . .also nowadays it has become a fashion to keep dog.
Bali-mardana: Yes, and to put stool on the sidewalk. Wherever there is dogs, there is stool all over the sidewalk.
Prabhupāda: That is the modern civilization. They are avoiding cow dung and associating dog stool. (laughs) This is modern. . . Cow dung is so beneficial. That they are avoiding. And they are associating dog stool. The dog mentality. The master and the servant, and the, er, dog, both of them watching. The master writes by signboard. . . What is that? "Keep away. Keep away. Private property." And the animal also making, "Gow! Gow! Gow!" Both of them are dogs. He is making "Gow! Gow!" by signboard, and he is doing it as nature, but both of them are dogs. One is two-legged dog; another is four-legged dog.
Siddha-svarūpa: Man keeps dog as an extension of his own doggish mentality, as an extension of himself.
Bali-mardana: The dog. . . Sometimes the dog and the person, they look the same.
Siddha-svarūpa: They look alike. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Siddha-svarūpa: It's often seen that an owner of a dog looks just like that particular dog. They look very much alike, and they have similar personalities.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That's a fact, because the subtle body is doggish, and he is going to be a dog next life. Tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ (BG 8.6). Because he is always thinking of his dog, always, therefore he is going to be a dog.
Bali-mardana: By association.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Saṅgāt sañjayate kāmaḥ (BG 2.62). The desire becomes according to association.