Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Suppose you increase the span of life to many, many years. What is the use if the life is not properly utilized? The trees are also living for many years. There are many living entities that are living many, many years more than you. So what is excellence on your part? "There are many animals that have got the facility of eating and sexual intercourse." How do we excel them? The modern civilization thinks they are advanced. In which way you are advanced? The animals, the trees, they are far advanced than you in this matter. So far bodily necessities are concerned, you cannot compete with them. We can fly by airplane. Oh, the vulture can fly more than you. It is a vulture, and it flies many miles above, and it has got very sharp eyesight. He is trying to find out, "Where is a dead body?" You see? Our, this advancement of science, increasing the sex power especially these days; but you have seen the dogs and cats. How much sex power they have got! So begetting children, the hog can beget children, at least three dozen a year. What we can do? In three years it is hardly we can produce one child. And the hog will produce in three years at least thirty-six children. So you cannot compete. Simply by competing in these things, animal life, that is not excellence of your life. Real excellence is that these animals, they cannot become Krishna conscious. That is the only difference. And if you lack in this matter of Krishna consciousness, then the other animals, lower animals, they are far, far advanced. You can excel all these lower animals, trees, birds, beasts and others, only by awakening your Krishna consciousness. That is the only business.
Ref: Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.18-19 Los Angeles, June 13, 1972 authored by Srila Prabhupada
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