# Materialism *On the illusion of material life and attachment* --- ### Stolen Property > Best thing is to return everything to Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And you will not be a loser; you will be gainer, just like Bali Mahārāja. Actually, if you think, everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Nothing belongs to you. This is māyā. Kṛṣṇa's property you are thinking "mine." — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### Simply Attached to Family > Not that "I am Hindu. I have got such a big tuft and so much tilaka, and I take bath daily in the Yamunā, Ganges. I am strictly vegetarian," and so on, so on, so on. But the result? "I am simply attached to my family." That's all. Finished. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Like a Madman > Simply for sense gratification, they are committing so many sinful activities. It is like..., just like madman. A madman does not know what he is doing. Similarly, the materialistic persons, they are so much engrossed and become maddened to commit everything simply for sense gratification. — [[spoken/1970/701219sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.34–39, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Frustration Coming > After too much material enjoyment, the next stage is frustration. That stage is coming to your country. Therefore the boys are becoming hippies. After too much material enjoyment, the next stage is—that is natural—frustration. — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### The Silkworm > A living being is entrapped by his fruitive activities, exactly like a silkworm trapped in its own cocoon. Foolish persons are generally encaged by their fruitive actions, or karma, because of a strong desire to enjoy this material world. Such attracted persons become involved in society, community and nation and waste their time. — [[spoken/1976/760630sb.nv|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.16, New Vṛndāvana, 1976]] --- ### Cannot Enjoy Disease > A patient who is suffering from some disease, he is unable to enjoy, but if he forcibly enjoys, then his life becomes risky. He becomes more implicated. Similarly, we are in diseased condition, and if we want to enjoy in this diseased condition, we become more and more implicated. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Wasting Human Life > This human form of life is very valuable. It should not be wasted like cats and dogs, eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. This life should be utilized for self-realization, for understanding what I am, what is God, what is my relationship with God. This is human life. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Everything Available > So by serving Kṛṣṇa, nobody is loser; he is gainer. He is gainer permanently, eternally. And we do not know what is the value of that gain now. Because we are materially covered, we think service means just like service in this world. — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### The Same Three Things > In every planet, in every life, in every species of life, there are three things: eating, sleeping, and sex life. You can get it in any life. You can become a pig; you have got very good facility for eating, sleeping, and sex life. You don't require any education for eating, sleeping, and sex. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Only Scarcity Is Kṛṣṇa Consciousness > My Guru Mahārāja used to say that "There is no scarcity in the world. The only scarcity is that people are not Kṛṣṇa conscious. That's all. Otherwise there is no scarcity." He has declared like that. — [[spoken/1970/701215sb.ind|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.27, Indore, 1970]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on materialism* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]