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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
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<div class="heading">Yes. Devotee, in miserable condition, they accept it as a favor of God... We are put sometimes in difficult position. But a devotee takes the difficult position as mercy of God.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with French Nun -- August 13, 1973, Paris|Room Conversation with French Nun -- August 13, 1973, Paris]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yogeśvara: She's asking... This is a French nun, and she wishes to know whether for us Christ is the son of God or is He God Himself or what is the identity of Lord Jesus Christ?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Jesus Christ says that he's son of God. That's all right. We accept.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: (translates French throughout) (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...ordinary son. And he's powerful son.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: ...question. She asks what is the difference between our understanding of reincarnation and the Christian concept of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ said he would come again. Is there a difference? Is it the same thing?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I don't find anything.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: There was this gentleman this afternoon who was asking you about people who are constantly, constantly being tested by all kinds of miserable circumstances. She asks: Is it not a sign of a soul that God has chosen to favor that he sends them such miserable conditions of material life?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Devotee, in miserable condition, they accept it as a favor of God. (break) ...in the Bhāgavata:</p>
:tat te 'nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇo
:bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaṁ vipākam
:hṛd-vāg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te
:jīveta yo mukti-pade sa dāya-bhāk
:([[Vanisource:SB 10.14.8|SB 10.14.8]])
<p>We are put sometimes in difficult position. But a devotee takes the difficult position as mercy of God.</p>
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