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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithGanesadasasMotherandSisterMay141975Perth_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="72" link="Room Conversation with Ganesa dasa's Mother and Sister -- May 14, 1975, Perth" link_text="Room Conversation with Ganesa dasa's Mother and Sister -- May 14, 1975, Perth">
<div class="heading">Oh, yes.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Ganesa dasa's Mother and Sister -- May 14, 1975, Perth|Room Conversation with Ganesa dasa's Mother and Sister -- May 14, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sister: If you're devoted enough can you gain release from birth, death, and old age completely in one life?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. That is explained here.</p>
<p>Sister: Yeah, within one material life? You necessarily don't have to return?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Sister: It's only if you haven't got rid of these impurities that you have to return, take on another body?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just if you do not try to understand Kṛṣṇa, then you have to. Here it is said, "One who understands Me definitely, he does not come." So try to understand Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. And you become free from birth and death and old age.</p>
<p>Mother: And what about before they joined Kṛṣṇa consciousness?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He was subjected to birth and death and old age, that's all.</p>
<p>Mother: And after they join it...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And if you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you understand Kṛṣṇa, then you become free.</p>
<p>Sister: But your body still suffers death, old age.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, as soon as you get a material body, you have to suffer. Either this body, Australian body or American body or dog's body or cat's body or tree's body, any body, material world, you will have to suffer. First of all, this transfer of body, that is also suffering. In the material world it is only suffering, but because people are in ignorance, they take suffering as enjoyment.</p>
<p>Mother: Then why there is so much human suffering?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because he has accepted this material body.</p>
<p>Mother: And this is why there's so much human suffering.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, on account of accepting a material body. Therefore every one of us should try how to avoid this process of accepting a material body. That should be our only endeavor, not to make a temporary solution. That is not very good solution.</p>
<p>Mother: But the world will never all become Kṛṣṇa conscious, will they? There will always be different scriptures.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What different there may be?</p>
<p>Gaṇeśa: Different scriptures.</p>
<p>Śrutakīrti: She said everyone won't all become Kṛṣṇa conscious in the world.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm. So if you are serious to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then you hear Kṛṣṇa, what does He say. Then you do that.</p>
<p>Sister: What about for a child, a newly born baby. Are they born into a material body because of their parents' bad doings?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, he has taken that particular body in terms of his past activities. One is born as a human child; one is born as a dog, cat; one is born as something else. So according, the body is offered by material nature according to his work. That we were discussing, prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27|BG 3.27]]). Material nature, by the order... God is within you. God is sitting there. He knows what you want. So God orders material nature, "Give him such and such body. He wants to enjoy like this." So material nature... Just he gives up this body, he is under the control of the material nature. The material nature sends him to such a father and the father gives the semina in the mother's womb, and mother gives him the body.</p>
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