The goal of this rare human form of life is to GET OUT OF THIS MATERIAL WORLD and not try and make our self comfortable here

The goal of this rare human form of life is to GET OUT OF THIS MATERIAL WORLD and not try and make our self comfortable here which is not possible anyway!

This place is NOT our real home, it was a mistake we came to the material world in the first place.

Srila Prabhupada - ''When the superior energy is in contact with inferior energy, it becomes an incompatible situation. But when the supreme marginal potency is in contact with the spiritual potency, Harā, it becomes the happy, normal condition of the living entity''.- (December 1966 "The Happening Record Album" New York City)

It is a waste of time to be satisfied reaching outer space in a craft, because such endeavours will NEVER answer the questions of life's purpose, why are we here, where did we come from and where are we meant to be.

Traveling to outer space will never solve the temporary decaying nature of the material bodily vessel we are in, namely birth, disease, old age and death, and will never help us understand the eternal nature of the soul (jiva-tattva) and one's relationship with God.

The goal of this rare human form of life is to GET OUT of the material world and material body, and go back home back to Godhead.

One should also NOT be side tracked by going to other temporary heavenly planets in the material universe, that are also in a state of impermanence, decline and decay.

What we should be learning in our schools and Universities, from a very young age, is we are NOT the material bodily vessel we occupy, but the life force known as the individual jiva tattva (jiva-soul) within.

Present day human society with all their scientific advanced technology, STILL do not understand the fact they are NOT the gross material bodily vessel they are in, or the underlining subtle material body of mind, intelligence and ego either.

Modern science today still have not discovered that we are the "life anti-material force" in the material body called the "individual jiva-tattva" covered by two further material bodies, one "gross matter", and the other "subtle matter".

We should be learning as children, we are the individual jiva-tattva (jiva-soul) within these temporary material bodily containers.

Science has yet to discover subtle material energy known as ''sub-space'' by many scholars, let alone spiritual anti-material energy.

They have no idea these unseen realities even exists. 

On a Spiritual level, our modern technological age is very materialistic, primitive and ignorant, they do not see beyond the mundane matter.

Many heavens described in other religious traditions, also exist only in the material creation in what is known in the Vedas as the heavenly material planets, they are NOT spiritual realms.

No, these temporary material opulant realities are NOT spiritual, which means they are NOT in Vaikuntha Planets which are the real eternal imperishable anti-material Kingdom of God where there is no disease, old age, birth or death.

The real reason why we have this rare human biological material form, is so we can again use it to get out of this material creation and go back home back to Godhead (Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan.) The Abodes of Lord Vishnu and Lord Narayana (The Vaikuntha Planets) and Lord Krishna (Goloka-Vrindavan)

Srila Prabhupada condemned all mundane outer space travel endeavours as a waste of time, saying it will all end in failure, meaning such endeavours will NOT free us from the material bodily vessel we are in or this material creation.

This is what he really meant when he said all endeavours to enter outer space will end in failure.

He also condemned demigod worship saying even going to the higher material heavenly planets is also a waste of time because nothing in the material creation, including the heavenly planets, lasts forever, it's all temporary.

Even if one lives in the heavenly material planets for 10,000 years, it all comes to an end, which means one will again experience re-birth, or taking another material body.

What Prabhupada meant by saying NASA's space endeavours are useless, is even if they are going to the Moon, Mars, Pluto etc, it will NOT help them get out of this material creation and realize they are NOT the material body they are confined too.

Srila Prabhupada told me the first time I met him -

"The purpose of this very rare human form of life is to get out of this material world and NOT try and build the kingdom of God without God"

Srila Prabhupada said searching outer space is like being in a burning house and staying in it looking for the source of the fire, no, if a house is burning you GET OUT!!

The material world is like that burning house, the fire of the house is like the constant decaying material body experiencing birth, youth, middle age, old age, disease and death.

So why hang around in this material world building rockets or comfortable cars, planes, houses, sky scrappers, super liners, big cities?

No, our real purpose is to get out of this material body and world! 

And yes, if the devotees took over, all modern science and technology would gradually cease to exist because we do not need it! We will NEVER teach our Gurukuli students moden Quantum physics or String theory or how to build rockets and become Astronauts.

To a devotee these things will NOT free us from the material creation.

Srila Prabhupada - ''When the superior energy is in contact with inferior energy, it becomes an incompatible situation. But when the supreme marginal potency is in contact with the spiritual potency, Harā, it becomes the happy, normal condition of the living entity''.

The following lecture is by Srila Prabhupada Canto 3 of Srimad Bhagavatam Bombay India December 1974

Srila Prabhupada - ''Therefore atma-darsana, one must know what he is. He is spiritual being. Spiritual being, he has nothing to do with this material world, but somehow or other, we have fallen in this material world. Anadi karama-phale, padi’ bhavarnava-jale.

It is just like ocean. So just like if you fall down from the boat or the ship, then it is struggle for existence. You may be very nice swimmer, but that does not mean in the water you will be comfortable. That is not possible.

Similarly, we living entities, part and parcel of God, we are as pure as God. Krsna, God, is pure. Param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan. Pavitra. So similarly… Pavitra means without material contamination.

That is pavitra.

apavitrah pavitro va
sarvavastham gato ‘pi va
yah smaret pundarikaksam
sa bahyabhyantara-sucih

This is the process, that you may be pure or impure. Material condition means impure, contaminated, conditioned.

So to get out of this contaminated condition, the sastra says, yah smaret pundarikaksam:

“If you always constantly think of Pundarikaksa, the lotus-eyed Krsna or Visnu,” yah smaret pundarikaksam sa bahyabhyantara-sucih, “he becomes externally and internally suci, purified.”

So at the present moment our position is contaminated position by the contact of the three modes of material nature. Gunair vicitrah. Gunair vicitrah. You see so many varieties of life, different varieties of life. Uccavaca.

Some of them are higher, in higher position; some of them are lower position. But this vicitra, soul, is pure. That is one quality. But this vicitra quality, why? Vicitra means variety. Because gunaih. Karanam guna-sango ‘sya.

Why one has become dog and one has become god? God means demigod. They are also living entities within this material world, but they live in higher planetary system.

Just like here also we see some of them are living in high skyscraper building, very comfortable apartment, and some are living in the huts, jhupari. In Bombay you can see. Both things are there.

Similarly, these demigods–Indra, Candra, Varuna, and many others–they are also living very comfortably in higher planets. They are also living entities.

But they are in the, mostly in the sattva-guna. And here, in this planet or lower than this planet, they are mostly in rajo-guna and tamo-guna.

That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita: urdhvam gacchanti sattva-sthah. If you develop sattva-guna, then gradually you can be elevated to the higher planetary system where the demigods live. Madhye tisthanti rajasah.

If you are affected by the rajo-guna, then the middle planetary system, means bhur bhuvah svah… Om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya.

So…, and lower planet, then Tala, Atala, Vitala, Patala, Rasatala, Talatala–there are so many lower planetary system.

There are fourteen planetary system, seven down (hellish) and seven up (heavenly).

So this is going on. This is going on. Therefore it is called gunair vicitrah. All these living entities and their living condition, their mode of life, standard of life, everything, they are simply contamination of the three gunas: tri-gunair vicitrah. Srjatim sa-rupah prakrtim prajah. Sa-rupah prakrtim.

They are getting this form according to the tendency of the mind, sa-rupah. If I contaminate tamo-guna, then I get lower-grade life.

If I contaminate rajo-guna, then middle-grade life. And if we contaminate… That is also contamination, but it is better than the other two.

So all of them are material qualities, and that is unwanted association of the living entity. That is not required, because in the Vedas it is said, asango ‘yam purusah: “The living entity has nothing to do with these material qualities.” But somehow or other, he has come in contact.

Therefore Bhaktivinoda Thakura said, anadi karama-phale, padi’ bhavarnava-jale. And the Caitanya Mahaprabhu also says like that, ayi nanda-tanuja patitam kinkaram mam visame bhavambudhau.

“My dear Lord, Nanda-tanuja, the son Nanda Maharaja, Krsna, I am Your eternal servant.” Ayi nanda-tanuja patitam kinkaram mam: “I am… Somehow or other, I have fallen in this ocean of material existence. Kindly pick me up and make me the dust of Your lotus feet.”

Just like if you are in the ocean, somehow or other, if you are taken one inch above the water, you immediately feel relief. So we have to become at least one inch above these material qualities. Then you are liberated, immediately".