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things—illicit sex life, intoxicants, meat eating, and gambling—are very great impediments to social improvement.
Prof. Kotovsky:  That will automatically make life simpler because a person who does not indulge in illicit sex, intoxicants, and such other things has to lead a comparatively simple life.
Śrīla Prabhupāda:  The other day I was speaking in Bombay with a respectable gentleman. I was telling him that Kṛṣṇa says:
māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās te 'pi yānti parāṁ gatiṁ
“Even those who are lowborn [ pāpa-yonayaḥ ]— strī ,  vaiśyas , and  śūdras —are also included by accepting Me. By accepting My shelter they are also elevated to the transcendental position.” [Bg. 9.32] Now why have the higher classes of Hindu society neglected this injunction of the  Bhagavad-gītā ? Suppose one is  pāpa-yonayaḥ , lowborn. Kṛṣṇa says that he can be “elevated to the transcendental position if he accepts Me.” Why wasn’t this message propagated by the higher class of people so that the so-called lowborn could be elevated? Why did they reject them? The result was that instead of accepting the Muhammadans, the Indians rejected them, and now they are partitioned off. They have become eternal enemies of India. So for the first time we are trying to elevate persons to the higher position of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, even if one is lowborn. Because the soul is pure. In the  Vedas  it is said that the soul is untouched by any material contamination; it is simply temporarily covered. This covering should be removed. Then one becomes pure. That is the mission of human life—to uncover ourselves from this material environment, come to spiritual understanding, and surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Then life is perfect.