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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Nobody is free from suffering. I have already explained, there are three kinds of sufferings. So who is free from these sufferings? You may not be suffering from any bodily disease, but you may be suffering from mental agony. You may not be suffering from mental agony, but you may suffer suffering imposed by others, what . . . there are so many sufferings. This place is suffering.
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[[Vanisource:730723 - Conversation B - London|730723 - Conversation B - London]]
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Prabhupāda: Yes. There is phrase in Bhāgavatam: kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.3.28|SB 1.3.28]]). Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam: "The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Kṛṣṇa." Īśvara parama kṛṣṇa. Īśvara means controller. So controller everyone can become. You are also controller; I am also controller. But parama īśvara, the Supreme Controller. We are controller, but we are at the same time controlled by somebody else. But Kṛṣṇa, He is controller, but He is not controlled. Therefore the śāstra says:

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:īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
:sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha
:ādir ādir govindaḥ
:sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam 
:(Bs. 5.1)
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So here is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa also says, in the Bhagavad-gītā, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ . . . ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). As you . . . there are so many faiths, but Kṛṣṇa says that, "Real religion is to surrender unto Me; therefore you give up all these pseudo-religion." Sarva-dharmān parityajya, giving up; mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja: "Just surrender unto Me, I shall give you protection from all sinful reaction."

So here is God, and He is accepted by great ācāryas. In India there were great ācāryas, religious leaders, just like Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Viṣṇu Svāmī, Nimbārka, latest Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and many others, they accept Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So there is God, His name, His address, His activities—everything is there if we accept. Then you benefit.

Mrs. Williams: Do you think that the poor Indians who are suffering because of this terrible drought in India . . . is it in India?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Mrs. Williams: Is their relief never going to be in this world? Is it only going to be when they die?

Prabhupāda: Well, nobody is dying.

Mrs. Williams: Dying is passing . . . is the spirit passing from the physical body into the . . .

Prabhupāda: No. Everyone everywhere is dying. Do you think in your country nobody dies? Is there any guarantee that nobody will die?

Mrs. Williams: No, but everyone dies, because this is the pattern and this is the cycle. You are born, you live your life, you die. Some people die young, some . . .

Prabhupāda: No. India, India at the present moment, they have lost their culture. In India five thousand years ago, when Mahārāja Parīkṣit was there, one black man was trying to kill a cow. He immediately took his sword, the King: "Who are you? You are killing cow in my kingdom?" The same India, the government is sanctioning ten thousand cows to be killed daily. So India is not the same India. India has lost its culture, you see? Therefore they are suffering.

Mrs. Williams: But everything is changing. Not only India is changing; every country is changing.

Prabhupāda: So every country is suffering. Russia is suffering in one way.

Revatīnandana: California is suffering another way.

Prabhupāda: Suffering another way. Nobody is free from suffering. I have already explained, there are three kinds of sufferings. So who is free from these sufferings? You may not be suffering from any bodily disease, but you may be suffering from mental agony. You may not be suffering from mental agony, but you may suffer suffering imposed by others, what . . . there are so many sufferings. This place is suffering.

It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]]), duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam: "This place is for suffering." Duḥkhālayam. Duḥka means suffering; ālayam means place. Aśāśvatam, and still you cannot make adjustment. If you say: "All right, let there be little suffering. Let me stay here," that also will not be allowed. You will be kicked out, "Get out!" Then you have to accept another body—you do not know what kind of body. So these things are there. Don't think that little happy life for ten years or twenty years is the solution of your problem. That is not solution. Real solution is different.
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