My Guru Mahārāja used to say that "This material world is not fit for living for any gentleman." He used to say. "No gentleman can live here." So these things are not understood by the nondevotees, how much pinching this material world is.
So unless one becomes detestful of this material world, it is to be understood that he has not yet entered in the spiritual understanding. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt [SB 11.2.42]. This is the test of bhakti. If one has entered the domain of devotional service, this material world will be not at all tasteful for him.
Srila Prabhupada - Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.15 —
Māyāpur, February 22, 1976
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Like waving incense in the stool house,does not make it a nice place.
Everything down here is tainted with the stink of rotten unholy death. Cruelty unimaginable, broken hearts and lives, greed and false ego and lust; these are the make-up of things these days. No matter what one does, it will soon end and be forgotten, useless. In two seconds one's head can become a flacid shell of skin for squishy brains splattered on the pavement and the relatives in horror screaming and crying at the sudden slaughter by bomb, car, accident, violence etc etc etc. with children left behind and torn lives. This whole planet has been slimed. Only condemned prisonners with no recourse to escape here, its a bloody death row.