238 THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION

soon as Brahman realization is attained, one becomes happy.

Is this not a fact? If you understand clearly that you have no birth and
death, that you are eternal, will you not become happy? Yes, certainly.
Thus when one is Brahman-realized, spiritually realized, he has no more
to do with hankering or lamentation. The whole world is simply hanker-
ing and lamenting. You African people are now hankering to be like
Europeans and Americans, but the Europeans have lost their empire,
and now they are lamenting. So in this way one party is hankering and
another is lamenting. Similarly, this material life is simply a combination
of hankering and lamenting. We are hankering for those things which we
do not possess, and we are lamenting for those things which we have lost.
That is our material business. If we realize, however, that we are part and
parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Parabrahman) and that
we are Brahman, then we will transcend this hankering and lamenting.

The so-called universal brotherhood or unity that the United Nations
is trying to achieve is possible only when you come to the spiritual plat-
form, or Brahman realization. Brahman realization is the aim of human
life. One should not work like cats, dogs, and hogs. The hog is always
very busy day and night trying to find stool, and when he finds it, he eats
it and becomes sexually agitated and has sex without discrimination. A
hog will have sex with its mother or sister or anyone else, and this is a
hog’s life. However, the scriptures indicate that the human form of life is
not meant for working hard for sense gratification like cats, dogs, and
hogs. It is meant for realizing, ‘‘I do not belong to this material world. I
am spirit soul and am eternal, but somehow or other I have fallen into
this conditional life of birth, old age, disease, and death.”’ This human
form of life is meant for making a solution to these four material: mis-
eries—birth, old age, disease, and death. That is the aim of human life.
Just try to understand that human life is not meant for working very hard
like hogs and then having some sense gratification and then all of a sud-
den dying.

People who do not believe in the soul are in a most unfortunate condi-
tion. They do not know where they came from nor where they are going.
Knowledge of the soul is the most important knowledge, but it is not dis-
cussed in any university. But what is the constitution of this body? What
is the distinction between a dead body and a living body? Why is the body -
living? What is the condition of the body, and what is its value? No one is
presently studying these questions, but by this Krsna consciousness
movement we are trying to educate people so that they can understand
that they are not these bodies but are spirit souls. The business of human
