Modern Civilization and Animal Slaughter

Critique of Darwinian prehistoric man

0:00Prabhupāda: ...still in the jungle. And they show the picture, Darwin's theory... Hari-śauri: Yes. Yes. They are stoning animals. Hari-śauri: Prehistoric man. Huh? Hari-śauri: Prehistoric man. Yes.

Modern slaughterhouses versus primitive hunting

0:19So now civilization is not stoning the animals. "I have [indistinct] slaughterhouses." This is their civilization. Hari-śauri: Killing in big slaughterhouse.

0:30They remain the same thing, the animal eaters, but the process has changed. Process changed. Instead of stoning, in big, big cities... [someone asks something in Hindi] [aside = Ah. All right.] ...you stand here, open up to the slaughterhouse, butcher. This is going on.

Technological changes versus actual progress

1:03Your standard remains the same. Hari-śauri: Yeah, doing the same thing. Simply the, what is called, operation is changed. That is civilization.

Misconceptions of civilization in India

1:25They have taken this is standard also in India. There was lamp, and the same lamp, now it is electricity, electric power. This is their civilization.

1:39There was some car, horse carriage, horse-drawn carriage or cow-drawn carriage. Now you have a car. Is it not? Hari-śauri: Yes. They do not know what is civilization. This is actual fact. They do not know what is civilization.

Importance of honoring the brahmanas

2:04This is civilization, huh?

2:08Brāhmaṇa. And they will think, "What is this nonsense, to worship a brāhmaṇa, to give food to the brāhmaṇa-bhojana?" They have manufactured, "Why brāhmaṇa-bhojana? There is [indistinct] they're daridra-nārāyaṇa."

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