Generally people, they act vikarma. They are in the tamo-guṇa, rajo-guṇa. They don't care for future life, and they are habituated to do anything. They eat anything—just like hog, even stool. They do not care for śāstric injunction. Irresponsible. Just like street boy, he has no education; he doesn't care for anything. Whatever he likes, he does. Then father, mother does not take care. So life in tamo-guṇa or rajo-guṇa is that carelessness. So such person simply act unlawfully. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma. Why? Yad indriya-prītaya āpṛṇoti. Simply for sense gratification. Simply for sense gratification. I have seen one hotel man in Calcutta, he cut the throat of a chicken, and the chicken, half-cut, it was flapping and jumping. The child of the hotel man, he was crying, and the hotel man was laughing. He was taking pleasure, "Oh, how this chicken, half-cut throat, and how he is jumping . . . why you are crying? Why you are crying?" And in Western countries I think students are sometimes taken to slaughterhouse to see? Is it a fact? Yes. You see? They take pleasure. Doing something sinful, they take pleasure. For pleasure's sake they do that. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma yad indriya-prītaye. Simply for the matter of sense gratification.
So śāstra says: "No, no, this is not good. This is not good." Na sādhu manye yata ātmano 'yam asann api kleśada āsa dehaḥ (SB 5.5.4). But they have no brain. This body is temporary, but it is full of suffering, although it is temporary. One can say: "This body is temporary, so what do I care for . . .?" But it is painful. We have to suffer.
- nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma
- yad indriya-prītaya āpṛṇoti
- na sādhu manye yata ātmano 'yam
- asann api kleśadaḥ . . .
- (SB 5.5.4)
They have no brain that this material body is kleśada, is simply miserable. That they understood. So dull brain. That is tamo-guṇa. Tamo-guṇa means completely darkness. Just like animals. You take one animal, you cut its throat. Another animal is standing and eating grass. He does not know, "The next time, next term is mine." This is animal life.
So people have become—especially in this Kali-yuga—mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ (SB 1.1.10). But this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to give these rascal little sense that, "Don't remain animal. Become human being." This is the propaganda. The Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that:
- kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva anādi-bahirmukha
- ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha
- (CC Madhya 20.117)
Kṛṣṇa-bhuliya, forgetting his relationship with Kṛṣṇa, one is simply acting foolishly, and the māyā is giving him miseries one after another, one after another, one after another. Another place it is said that,
- anādi-bahirmukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli' gela
- ataeva kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa kailā
We have forgotten Kṛṣṇa. Therefore there are Vedas and Purāṇas and Vedic literature. It is for human being.