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THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION
aren't they Kṛṣṇa conscious?  Māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān . These rascals have created a humbug civilization for temporary happiness.
Māyā-sukhāya . Actually this is a fact. We have a humbug civilization. So many cars are being manufactured every year, and for that purpose so many roads have to be excavated and prepared. This creates problem after problem. Therefore it is  māyā-sukhāya , illusory happiness, and yet we are trying to be happy in this way. We are trying to manufacture some way to be happy, but this only creates other problems.
In your country you have the greatest number of cars, but that does not solve any problems. You have manufactured cars to help solve the problems of life, but I have experienced that this also creates more problems. When my disciple Dayānanda wanted to take me to a doctor in Los Angeles, I had to take the trouble to travel thirty miles before I could even consult the doctor. Once you create cars, then you must travel thirty or forty miles to meet your friends.
You can fly from New York to Boston in one hour, but it takes even longer than that just to get to the airport. This situation is called  māyā-sukhāya .  Māyā  means "false," "illusory." We are trying to create some very comfortable situation, but we have created another uncomfortable situation. This is the way of the material world; if we are not satisfied by the natural comforts offered by God and nature and we want to create artificial comforts, then we have to create some discomfort also. Most people do not know that. They think that they are creating a very comfortable situation, but actually they are traveling fifty miles to go to the office to earn a livelihood and fifty miles to come back. Because of such conditions, Prahlāda Mahārāja says that these  vimūḍhāns —these materialistic persons, these rascals—have created an unnecessary burden on themselves simply for temporary happiness.  Vimūḍhān, māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato . Therefore, in Vedic civilization, it is recommended that one free himself from material life, take  sannyāsa , the renounced order of life, and prosecute spiritual life with absolutely no anxiety.
If one can execute Kṛṣṇa consciousness in family life, that is very good. Bhaktivinoda Thākura was a family man, a magistrate, and still he executed devotional service so nicely. Dhruva Mahārāja and Prahlāda Mahārāja were  gṛhasthas , householders, but they trained themselves in such a way that even as householders they were faced with no interruption in their service. Therefore, Prahlāda Mahārāja says, "I have learned the art of always remaining in Kṛṣṇa consciousness." What is that art?  Tvad-vīrya-gāyana-mahāmṛta-magna-cittaḥ . Simply glorifying the vic-