Real life means if you stop the process of sense gratification, then you go back to home, back to Godhead, your real place. And if you increase your propensity for sense gratification, then you remain within the cycle of birth and death

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"Real life means if you stop the process of sense gratification, then you go back to home, back to Godhead, your real place. And if you increase your propensity for sense gratification, then you remain within the cycle of birth and death"

Lectures

Arrival Addresses and Talks

Especially in the Western countries, their only plan is how to satisfy the senses. They have no other plan. But real life is to stop this line of civilization—nivṛtti. Nivṛtti means "stop." General propensity is sense gratification, but if you can stop this process of sense gratification, that is real life. That is real life. Nivṛttis tu mahā-phalām. Real life means if you stop the process of sense gratification, then you go back to home, back to Godhead, your real place. And if you increase your propensity for sense gratification, then you remain within the cycle of birth and death.

750525 - Arrival - Honolulu

According to Vedic civilization it is said, dhānyena dhanavān gavayā dhanavān. Formerly, and still in Indian villages, suppose one man is going to give his daughter to a boy. So he will go and see how much grains he has got in store, how many cows he has got. Then yes, he is going to agree, like that. Nowadays they don’t go to see how much book balance he has got. That is not actual wealth. So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is basically that we should not be attracted by the false thing. We should not be attracted by the false thing. The reality—vāstava vastu vedyaṁ atra (SB 1.1.2). Real reality, not false reality.

So I am very glad that you are living here. So kindly stick to this place and make an ideal island so that others may see also: plain living, high thinking. Produce your own food; keep cows, milk. If there is food grain and milk there is no necessities. And you can produce your cloth also if you produce cotton. And we are trying in Māyāpura to produce our own cloth. So we require our own cloth, own food, and time saved for advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is required. That is actual civilization. This is not civilization; this is demonic civilization. So although you are all European and American, these things are practically . . . you are not accustomed. But if you develop this kind of civilization—plain living and high thinking—save time for advancing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is real profit of life. It is real profit.

pravṛttir eṣā bhūtānāṁ

nivṛttis tu mahā-phalāṁ

(Manu-saṁhitā)

We have come to this material world for sense gratification. This is pravṛtti. Pravṛtti means that is our natural propensity, inclination. We are simply making plans how to satisfy our senses. That is material life. Especially in the Western countries, their only plan is how to satisfy the senses. They have no other plan. But real life is to stop this line of civilization—nivṛtti. Nivṛtti means "stop." General propensity is sense gratification, but if you can stop this process of sense gratification, that is real life. That is real life. Nivṛttis tu mahā-phalām. Real life means if you stop the process of sense gratification, then you go back to home, back to Godhead, your real place. And if you increase your propensity for sense gratification, then you remain within the cycle of birth and death.