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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Our endeavor should be for understanding ourself, self-realization, and our relationship with God or what is God, what is the nature. These things, athāto brahma jijñāsā, this is our business, not to waste our valuable time for searching after sense gratification. It is not human civilization, and that is . . . that is demonic civilization. That is Prahlāda Mahārāja, stressing.
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Sarvatra labhyate. Sarvatra mean every form of life, in every place, either in the higher planetary or lower planetary or this—everywhere, sarvatra. Hmm?

Nalinīkaṇṭha: Sarvatra labhyate daivād.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. Daivāt. Daivāt means "By the superior arrangement." Superior arrangement . . . one has become human being, one has become cat, one has become dog, one has become demigod, one has become worm of the stool, daiva-yogena, by the arrangement of the supreme controller. But the material happiness is the same everywhere. Either one is worm in the stool or he is king in the heaven, the standard happiness is the same. Then?

Nalinīkaṇṭha: Yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ

Prabhupāda: Ah. And these things are available without any endeavor, as we get distressed condition of life without any endeavor. There are two things in this world: distress and happiness. So we don't call for distress that, "Malaria fever come to me. I shall enjoy." Nobody says, but it comes. So similarly, this is distress. If distress comes by the superior arrangement, so happiness also will come by superior arrangement. So why should we bother about these things? Now, tasyaiva hetoḥ praya . . . therefore our endeavor should be for understanding ourself, self-realization, and our relationship with God or what is God, what is the nature. These things, athāto brahma jijñāsā, this is our business, not to <span class="hlterm">waste our valuable time</span> for searching after sense gratification. It is not human civilization, and that is . . . that is demonic civilization. That is Prahlāda Mahārāja, stressing
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