Simply a little high standard of living, and they think this is advancement. And the Western civilization is influencing all other parts of the world in that way - "Improve the standard of living." There is no improvement, but it is maya; they are thinking, "This is improvement." The progress is that they have got motorcar, and they have progressed how to die quickly. This is the progress. At any moment he can die. As soon as he on the car, 70 miles speed, that means taking the risk of dying at any moment. This is the progress. Formerly people were going in bullock cart or horse carriage from one village to another. "That was primitive. Now we can go hundred miles away from home for earning money and taking risk to die at any moment. That is progress."
Morning walk, Mauritius, 23 October, 1975