This is the stool civilization. How many people are there in the Bay Area? Roughly 5 million. That means roughly 5 million pounds of stool per day.

Stool Civilization

Human body given for inquiry, not merely eating, sleeping, mating and defending like the animals

HANSADUTTA: "The living entities in this conditional world are My eternal fragmental parts" (Bhagavad-gita 15.7). We are connected to Krishna just as this microphone is connected to the power house a thousand miles away. I don't see the power house, but there must be one. So we do not see Krishna, but Krishna is there, and we are connected to Krishna. Krishna consciousness means to become aware of that connection. "Always think of Me, bow down to Me, worship Me, give your love to Me, and surely you will come to Me." (Bg 18.65). This is the sum and substance of Krishna consciousness, to become conscious of Krishna.

Now we are conscious of our beard or of our pants, our shoes and so on. But we have to become Krishna conscious. Therefore the first question will be Where is Krishna? What is Krishna? How do I become conscious of Krishna? And the answer is given by Krishna Himself. That is Bhagavad-gita. That is the yoga-shastra, or the handbook of self realization. Every human being must read Bhagavad-gita if he wants to do himself good.

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Unfortunately, people read newspapers, magazines and every other rubbish thing but not Bhagavad-gita. Therefore they remain like cats, dogs and hogs. They simply eat and pass stool and invent very sophisticated systems for that — how to bring the food from the farm into the supermarket and refrigerate it, how to transport it home in an automobile, how to cook it on an electric stove which is connected to the power grid a thousand miles away, how to eat it with knife and fork, and then it all comes out as stool, for which we have invented a nice toilet with underground system, toilet tissue, deodorant... so wonderfully civilized. There are so many wonderful inventions to help us pass stool and urine, to enhance our sex life, to abort the unwanted by-product and defend ourselves with atomic weapons. Such is the wonder of science.

But don't you wonder why they spend so much time developing a toilet, which is after all just a hole into which you evacuate stool? Cats and dogs make a little hole, evacuate - finished. We're working eight hours a day to pay for toilet paper and the toilet bowl in our nicely decorated bathroom. We're paying for this system. This is the stool civilization. How many people are there in the Bay Area? Roughly 5 million. That means roughly 5 million pounds of stool per day. Where does it go? That is your technology. You see all those big buildings over there across the Bay? Well, they have pipes coming from the top floor down to the bottom, and they have to work so hard just to keep the stool moving. Advancement of science and technology means that you can pass stool in an airplane, on a bus, on a train. We now have a very sophisticated, complicated arrangement for eating food and passing stool. The whole world is in fact just a big toilet. It's a place where you eat and pass stool. There is nothing more happening. You have to pass stool, and for this stool machine called the body, you are spending so much money to decorate it with nice eyebrow pencil, lipstick, rouge, hair cream, perfume, brassiers, underwear, shoes, socks, coat, car, toilet. And in the end, what do you get? What is the profit in the end? After 70 years of hard work, stuffing the body with food and passing stool, what do you get? Nothing.

So common sense alone should inspire us to make some effort to be liberated. At any rate, that is what it means to be a devotee of Krishna: to give up this stool-like existence.