681118b Lecture - Srila Prabhupada Speaks a Nectar Drop in Los Angeles

Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So in every human society there is such inquiry and there is some answer also. So cultivating this knowledge, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or God consciousness, is essential. If we do not take to these inquiries, simply if we engage ourself in the animal propensities... Because this material body is animal body, but the consciousness is developed. In the animal body or in the lower than animal body—just like trees and plants, they are also living entities—the consciousness is not developed. If you cut a tree, because the consciousness is not developed, it does not protest. But it feels the pain."
Lecture Festival Sri Sri Sad-govamy-astaka - Los Angeles