Prabhupāda: The paper comes automatically . . .
Devotees: Telex.
Prabhupāda: Telex. So they are getting . . . in Zurich, we saw that every bank is by television giving the quotation, of price quotation. That city is very speculative. They are speculate on the price of gold, and they purchase and sell, so they must know the price of the gold every moment, how the market is changing. Their brain is always in that way.
So everyone is inquisitive, every one of us, even the animals, birds, beasts, everyone, inquisitive. But when one becomes inquisitive to understand God, then his human life is fulfilled. Then he is actually in human life. Otherwise, to simply inquisitive what is the price of gold, that means selling and purchasing, make some profit, and when there is profit, then there is sense gratification. That's . . . this is their aim. When they get some money, immediately how to spend it for sense gratification, not only for personal self, but also family. Divā cārthehayā rājan kuṭumba-bharaṇena vā (SB 2.1.3).
Our life is being spoiled. How? Nidrayā hriyate naktam. At night we are sleeping or enjoying sex. Nidrayā hriyate naktaṁ vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ. Vyavāya means sex. So at night we have got two business: sleeping and sex. And daytime, divā cārthehayā rājan. At daytime, simply, "Where is money? Where is money?" Artha, or self-interest. Divā cārthehayā rājan. Īhayā. Īhayā means searching after, desiring.
Then, as soon as he gets money, then what business? Divā cārthehayā rājan kuṭumba-bharaṇena vā (SB 2.1.3). Kuṭumba means family. So as soon as we get money, we spend it, go to the store, purchase so many things. So this is our business. The materialistic life means to spoil the night by sleeping and sex life, and to spoil the day: "Where is money? Where is money?" and spend it. That's all. Is it not? This is the clear analysis of materialistic life. Cārthehayā. "Where is money? Where is money?" This is also inquisitiveness, "Where is money? Where is food? Where is shelter? Where is this, where is that?"
So this inquisitiveness is there in the animals. Then what is the use of this human form of life, the . . . if the same inquisitiveness is there—where is money or where is shelter, where is food, where is sex? No. This inquisitiveness is already there in the animal life. Now you have got better life, human form of life, intelligent life, advanced life.