The so-called educated persons, for want of Krsna consciousness, they can act less than even an animal. You see? They do not care for what is going in the next life

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

In India I have personal experience that many . . . why in India? I have seen here also. In New York our boys wanted to purchase one house, and they had a few thousand dollars, and a group of lawyers, I mean to say, they made a plan to take out this ten thousand dollars from these boys, and . . . I know it personally. They are educated lawyers, but because they're acting on the mental plane, they are thinking that "By somehow or other, if we can grab this money and we shall divide amongst lawyers . . ." This is going on. The so-called educated persons, for want of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they can act less than even an animal. You see? So vidvān apītthaṁ danujāḥ kuṭumbaṁ puṣṇan sva-lokāya na kalpate vai. So they do not care for what is going in the next life. Tamaḥ prapadyeta yathā vimūḍhaḥ. They also fall into the darkness, the darkest region, as ordinary illiterate or ignorant persons also fall.

690331 - Lecture SB 07.06.09-17 - San Francisco

The other class of misery is due to this body and mind. Sometimes the body is sick; we don't feel very nice. Sometimes the mind is disturbed. That is also . . . it may be due to other friend or other relative; so mind is not in order. So this is called adhyātmika. So adhibhautika, adhyātmika. And another disturbance created by adhidaivaika. Daiva means on which we have no control, just like earthquake, flood, or similarly nature's disturbance, on which we have no control.So here it is said, tāpa-traya-duḥkhitātmā. Duḥkhi. That is our ignorance. We are always unhappy due to these three kinds of miseries inflicted by the laws of nature, but still, we think that we are very nice. But actually we are duḥkhitātmā, we are always sorry. Nirvidyate na kuṭumba-rāmaḥ. But there is no satiation, because the only solace is that he is within the so-called friendship, love and society. That's all. Kuṭumba-rāmaḥ.vitteṣu nityābhiniviṣṭa-cetāvidvāṁś ca doṣaṁ para-vitta-hartuḥ(SB 7.6.15)And being too much attached to money matters, even learned persons, even very, I mean to say, advanced intellectually, they also try to steal others' money. Para-vitta. Although it is a fault. Although it is fault. Vitteṣu nityābhiniviṣṭa-cetā. Nitya, perpetually too much attached to money. Nityābhiniviṣṭa. Niviṣṭa means profoundly attached. Profoundly attached to money. Vidvāṁś ca doṣaṁ para-vitta-hartuḥ. Although to take other money or to steal others' money is a fault . . . it is a fault not only to the law of the state, but it is a fault to the law of the Supreme God also.You can avoid the state law by stealing, but you cannot avoid the law of the Supreme Person. You see, He can see everywhere. You can steal very stealthily so that police constables or police force cannot see—you are think that "I am doing very nicely. Nobody can see me"—but you cannot avoid the eyes of the Supreme. So doṣa, it is faulty. Either in this world or in the next world, it is faulty.But we are so accustomed, we are so, I mean to say, profoundly attached to money that we, I mean to say, take illegally others' money. Para-vitta-hartuḥ. Pretyeha vāthāpy ajitendriyas. Although we know that in this world it is faulty and also next world it is faulty, but because we have our senses uncontrolled, we cannot change. Aśānta kāmo harate kuṭumbī. And the main attraction is all these nonsense things are done simply being attached to the so-called society, friendship and love. That's all.vidvān apītthaṁ danujāḥ kuṭumbaṁpuṣṇan sva-lokāya na kalpate vaiyaḥ svīya-pārakya-vibhinna-bhāvastamaḥ prapadyeta yathā vimūḍhaḥ(SB 7.6.16)These actions are, I mean to say, performed even by so-called learned man. Actually, one who is not spiritually learned, one who is not spiritually conversant, he is not a learned man.In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā (SB 5.18.12)"One who is not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he cannot have any good qualification." Why? There are so many doctors, Ph.D.s, and M.A.C., B.A.C., and very, very big man, and because they are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness they have no good qualification? One may ask question like that. But the answer is that they may be very learned man in the estimation of common man, but manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ: if a man is educated materially, without any spiritual understanding, without any Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then his field of activities is the mind.He cannot surpass the field of activities beyond the mind. Those who are grossly materialistic, they are working on the field of this gross body, senses. And those who are a little more advanced, the so-called philosophers, mental speculators, scientists, or many others, they are working on the mental plane.So unless you promote yourself to the platform of spiritual understanding, there cannot be any good qualification. Therefore harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā (SB 5.18.12). One who is not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he cannot have any good qualification, because his field of activities is on the mental plane. As it is stated in the previous verse, being situated on the mental plane, even a learned man, I mean to say, transgresses the limits of law. There are so many.Of course, in India I have personal experience that many . . . why in India? I have seen here also. In New York our boys wanted to purchase one house, and they had a few thousand dollars, and a group of lawyers, I mean to say, they made a plan to take out this ten thousand dollars from these boys, and . . . I know it personally. They are educated lawyers, but because they're acting on the mental plane, they are thinking that "By somehow or other, if we can grab this money and we shall divide amongst lawyers . . ." This is going on. The so-called educated persons, for want of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they can act less than even an animal. You see?So vidvān apītthaṁ danujāḥ kuṭumbaṁ puṣṇan sva-lokāya na kalpate vai. So they do not care for what is going in the next life. Tamaḥ prapadyeta yathā vimūḍhaḥ. They also fall into the darkness, the darkest region, as ordinary illiterate or ignorant persons also fall.yato na kaścit kva ca kutracid vādīnaḥ svam ātmānam alaṁ samarthaḥvimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra-krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ(SB 7.6.17)And in this way they are becoming more and more entangled in this materialistic life. So he is concluding, he is asking his friends, tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā: "So therefore before you become entangled in this materialistic way of life, my dear friends born of demonic family . . ." Daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu: "Please give up the company of the demons."This is very essential, to have good society. A man may be very innocent, and if he is given chance for good society, he becomes a godly man. And if he's given inferior society, then he becomes a demon. So first thing proposed by Prahlāda Maharaj amongst his friends, that daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu: "Please give up the company of the demons." What demons?Now, viṣayātmakeṣu, those who are too much attached for sense gratification. They are called demons. They have no other idea. Simply they are concerned with sense gratification and they do not know what is life, what is God, what is next life. They have no information. They are called demons.And another explanation of the demons and the demigods are there in the Śrīmad-Bhagavad-gītā. Viṣṇu-bhaktaḥ bhaved daiva āsuras tad-viparyayaḥ (CC Adi 3.91).Those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are called demigods. Demigods, you don't think that simply the citizens or the residents of higher planet, they are called demigods. No.