Vyasadeva, so learned scholar, everyone knows how great scholar he was. He has written so many books. Four Vedas, eighteen Puranas, then Vedanta-sutra, then Upanisads. So many things. Recorded, not written, recorded. So such a big scholar was residing... He was guiding the whole society, but he was living very humbly. Even Canakya Pandita, he was prime minister, but he was living in a cottage. That is the distinction between Vedic or Indian civilization and the modern civilization. The Indian civilization means they are interested in sat, and others they are interested in asat. Asat means which will not exist.
Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.16, London, 22 August, 1973