The Vedānta-sūtra therefore, the first aphorism, athāto brahma jijñāsā. Jijñāsā means inquiry. "Now it is the opportunity for inquiring about the self." "Now" means this human form of body. A dog cannot. So therefore Vedānta-sūtra begins, athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is the opportunity. But unfortunately, people are not given the opportunity, facility. School, college, they are simply giving, "More become mechanics," how to deal with instruments, iron instruments. Big, big institution for technological understanding.
And where is this technology: Why a dead man is dead man? Why don't you give some mechanical power so that he can come out again? Where is that technology? You know the technology . . . when a motorcar is stopped, you know the technology how to start it again. But you do not know this technology: when this motorcar, this body motorcar, will stop, you have no technology to start it again. Then where is the perfection of your technological institute? You are missing the real point. Therefore abodha-jātaḥ, everything is failure, all technology failure. Failure, simply failure. What is the use of? You do not know real technology. Therefore it is failure.
But the informations are there. If we are intelligent enough, then we can take that "What is this? Why a dead man cannot be revived into life again? Then what is the fact?" But nobody wants to die, he wants to continue. Why he becomes old? Old means warning and, of the . . . just like the, what is that, yellow light: "Now please prepare for the red light." So this is coming. You stop this, technology. Where is your technology? But the information is there, Bhagavad-gītā. Tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati (BG 2.13).