No monkey is a meat-eater. How have you changed your habits if you are actual descendant from monkey? So how you have changed your habits in the matter of eating? Put some humorous question. What is the answer, that you are improved than the monkey?

Well, you have not improved. You cannot jump like a monkey from one branch to another, so how you have improved? Simply by eating, you have improved?

A monkey can keep dozens of wives. You cannot maintain even one wife. So how you have improved than the monkey? You have not improved. To maintain two-dozen wives is not a [indistinct] job. [laughter] [laughs]

You must have potency. But you have no potency; you are impotent. You cannot maintain, you cannot satisfy even one wife. So how you have improved than the monkey? The monkey can satisfy three dozen wives. Ask them this question: "How you have improved? You have improved little by dressing yourself; monkeys are always naked.

So you have improved little, but again you are going to undress yourself. So that is also not very satisfactory. In what way you have improved?

Srila Prabhupada — May 18, 1976, Honolulu