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karma . So, good  karma  means you enjoy some material happiness; bad  karma  means you suffer from material distress. By good  karma  you get birth in a good family; you get riches, good money. Then you become a learned scholar; you become beautiful also.
[Some time passes.]
BOB:  What about the person who—who is not very aware of God, but . . .
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Then he is an animal. The animal does not know what is good. A person who does not know what is God, or one who does not try to understand what is God—he is an animal. The animals are with four legs, and that animal is with two legs. And Darwin's theory is they are monkeys. So anyone who does not know God, or does not try to understand God, is nothing but an animal.
BOB:  What about the innocent people?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  The animal is very innocent. If you cut its throat, it won't protest. So innocence is not a very good qualification. The animals are all innocent. Therefore you get the chance to cut their throats. So to become innocent is not a very good qualification. Our proposition is that one must be very, very intelligent, and then he can understand Kṛṣṇa. To become an innocent, ignorant simpleton is not a very good qualification. Simplicity is all right, but one should not be unintelligent.
BOB:  Can you tell me again what intelligence is?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Intelligence means . . . One who knows what he is, what is this world, what is God, what are the interrelations—he is intelligent. The animal does not know what he is. He thinks that he is the body. Similarly, anyone who does not know what he is, he is not intelligent.