Higher standard of life

śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ 
saḿstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ 
na yat-karṇa-pathopeto 
jātu nāma gadāgrajaḥ  (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.3.19) 

Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels, and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Śrī Kṛiṣhṇa, the deliverer from evils. 

The general mass of people, unless they are trained systematically for a higher standard of life in spiritual values, are no better than animals, and in this verse, they have particularly been put on the level of dogs, hogs, camels, and asses. Modern university education practically prepares one to acquire a doggish mentality with which to accept the service of a greater master. After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they have driven away, informed of no vacancy. As dogs are negligible animals and serve the master faithfully for bits of bread, a man serves a master faithfully without sufficient rewards.

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