8 The Nectar of Devotion

ness even the demigods like to live with him, and therefore it can be
understood that the qualities of the demigods have developed within
his body.”

On the other hand, a person who is not in Krgna consciousness has
no good qualities. He may be highly educated from the academic
point of view, but in the actual field of his activities he can be seen
to be baser than the animals. Even though a person is highly educated
academically, if he cannot go beyond the sphere of mental activities
then he is sure to perform only material activities and thus remain
impure. There are so many persons in the modern world who have
been highly educated in the materialistic universities, but it is seen
that they cannot take up the movement of Krsna consciousness
and develop the high qualities of the demigods.

For example, a Krsna conscious boy, even if he is not very well
educated by the university standard, can immediately give up all
illicit sex life, gambling, meat-eating and intoxication; whereas those
who are not in Krsna consciousness, although very highly educated,
are often drunkards, meat-eaters, sex-mongers and gamblers. These
are practical proofs of how a Krsna conscious person becomes highly
developed in good qualities, whereas a person who is not in Krsna
consciousness cannot do so. We experience that even a young boy in
Krsna consciousness is unattached to cinemas, night clubs, naked
dance shows, restaurants, liquor shops, etc. He becomes completely
freed. He saves his valuable time from being extravagantly spent in
the way of smoking, drinking, attending the theater and dancing.

One who is not in Krsna consciousness usually cannot sit silently
even for half an hour. The yoga system teaches that if you become
silent you will realize that you are God. This system may be all right
for materialistic persons, but how long will they be able to keep
themselves silent? Artificially, they may sit down for so-called
meditation, but immediately after their yogic performance, they will
engage themselves again in such activities as illicit sex life, gambling,
meat-eating and many other nonsensical things. But a Krsna conscious
person gradually elevates himself without endeavoring for this so-
called silent meditation. Simply because he is engaged in Krsna
consciousness he automatically gives up all this nonsense and develops
