Just like our body is made of skin, that bellow is also made of skin, and it has got a big nose, and breathing is coming, "bhas-ghans, ghans-bhas." So these are the tangible examples. So if you want to increase your life, there are many living entities, they are living many, many years more than you. So what excel? What is excellence in your part? And if you say that, "I am breathing. The tree cannot breathe," oh, there is the bhastrāḥ, the bellows. It can breathe better than you.
Then he says: "No, they have no enjoyment of eating and mating." Then the Bhāgavata replies, kiṁ . . . na khādanti na mehanti kiṁ grāme paśavo 'pare. Wherever we live, there are many other lower animals, just like dogs, cats, hogs, asses, animals, camels. Of course, in city we do not find these, but in villages these are domestic animals—dogs, asses, hogs, camel, monkey and so many others.
Therefore he says grāme, "In your vicinity, in your neighborhood, there are many animals. They have got the facility of eating and sexual intercourse. So how do we excel them?" The modern civilization is such a foolish civilization that they think they are advanced. In which way you are advanced? The animals, the trees, they are far advanced than you in this matter. So far bodily necessities are concerned, you cannot compete with them.
You are flying. So we can fly by airplane. Oh, the vulture can fly more than you. It is a vulture, and it flies many miles above, and it has got very sharp eyesight. The vulture is so up. The business is where there is a dead body, that's all. He is trying to find out, "Where is a dead body?" You see? It goes high, but the business is to find out a dead body. That's all.