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Srila Prabhupada: Yes, so these things should be stopped. Therefore,
Prahlada Maharaja makes this statement:
sukham aindriyakam daitya
deha-yogena dehinam
sarvatra labhyate daivad
yatha duhkham ayatnatah
‘*My dear friends born of demonic families, the happiness perceived with
reference to the sense objects by contact with the body can be obtained in
any form of life, according to one’s past fruitive activities. Such happi-
ness is automatically obtained without endeavor, just as we obtain
distress.’’ [Bhdg. 7.6.3]

A dog has a body, and I have a body. So, my sex pleasure and the dog’s
sex pleasure—there is no difference. The pleasure derived out of sex is
the same. A dog is not afraid of having sex pleasure on the street before
everyone, and we hide it. That’s all. People are thinking that to have sex
pleasure in a nice apartment is advanced. However, that is not advanced.
And they are making a dog’s race for this so-called advancement. People
do not know that according to whatever kind of body one has acquired,
the pleasure is already stored up.

Interviewer: What do you mean, ‘“‘the pleasure is already stored up’’?

Srila Prabhupada: That is called destiny. A pig has got a certain type of .
body, and his eatable is the stool. You cannot change it. The pig will not

like to eat halvah [a sweetmeat made of wheat toasted in butter]. It is not
possible. Because he has a particular type of body, he must eat like that.

Can any scientist improve the standard of living. of the pig?

Interviewer: I doubt it.

Srila Prabhupada: Therefore, Prahlada Maharaja says that it is already
stored up. The pleasure is basically the same, but a little different accord-

ing to the body. The uncivilized man in the jungle is having the same
thing.

Now people are thinking that civilization means constructing sky-
scraper buildings. But Vedic civilization says, No, that is not advance-
ment. The real advancement of human life is self-realization, how much
you have realized your se/f: Not that you have constructed skyscraper
buildings.

Interviewer: But wouldn’t what you’re saying make sense to most
people? :
Srila Prabhupada: Sometimes people misunderstand. In a high court, a
