Life in ignorance, tamo-guna, is such a careless life.

Srila prabhupada writes....

Life in ignorance, tamo-guna, is such a careless life.

People simply act unlawfully, not considering the results of their actions.

They act for sense gratification, and actually they take pleasure in committing sins.

In Calcutta I have seen people taking pleasure in cutting the throats of chickens and laughing when the chicken jumps and flaps about.

Sometimes in Western countries students are taken to slaughterhouses just to see how the cows are butchered.

In this age, people take pleasure in committing all kinds of sins.

They have no brains to see that this body is temporary and full of suffering.

They are completely in the mode of darkness, just like the animals they slaughter.

There may be many animals in a pasture, and if one takes an animal aside and cuts its throat, the other animals will simply stand, look, and continue eating grass.

They do not realize that the next time they may be slaughtered.

The people in Kali-yuga are in the same situation, but the Krsna consciousness movement is trying to give these rascals a little sense.

We are saying, "Don't remain animals. Become human beings."