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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Relationship is not lost. Just like you... Either you are in the prison house or you are in the kingdom of the state, your relationship with government is there. It does not mean that when you are put into the prison house to suffer, it does not mean you have lost relationship, is it that?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- June 9, 1976, Los Angeles|Garden Conversation -- June 9, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nalinīkaṇṭha: Yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ</p>
<p>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 comes 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 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. Sukham aindriyakaṁ yad... Read it?</p>
<p>Nalinīkaṇṭha: Next one?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, this verse.</p>
<p>Nalinīkaṇṭha:</p>
:sukham aindriyakam daityā
:deha-yogena dehinām
:sarvatra labhyate daivād
:yataḥ duḥkham ayatnataḥ
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm. Now translation and purport, read.</p>
<p>Nalinīkaṇṭha: We just read that. Read again?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The purport you have read?</p>
<p>Nalinīkaṇṭha: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, then next verse.</p>
<p>Nalinīkaṇṭha: No, I haven't read the purport.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, purport read.</p>
<p>Nalinīkaṇṭha: "In the material world in any form of life there is some so-called happiness and so-called distress. No one invites distress in order to suffer, but still it comes. Similarly, even if we do not endeavor to obtain the advantages of material happiness, we shall obtain them automatically. This happiness and distress are obtainable in any form of life without endeavor. Thus there is no need to waste time and energy fighting against distress or working very hard for happiness. Our only business in the human form of life should be to revive our relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus become qualified to return home, back to Godhead. Material happiness and distress come as soon as we accept a material body, regardless of what form. We cannot avoid such happiness and distress under any circumstances. The best use of human form of life, therefore, lies in reviving our relationship with the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So, is there any question about this statement?</p>
<p>Arnold Weiss: Yes. What originally caused us to lose our relationship with Lord Kṛṣṇa? I understand it is due to our desires, but how is this desire manifest?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Relationship is not lost. Just like you... Either you are in the prison house or you are in the kingdom of the state, your relationship with government is there. It does not mean that when you are put into the prison house to suffer, it does not mean you have lost relationship, is it that?</p>
<p>Arnold Weiss: Yes, but why are we in the prison house?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is the cause: because you are criminal, you are put into the prison house, but the relationship continues.</p>
<p>Arnold Weiss: What have we done to make ourselves criminals?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What you have done, you are put into prison?</p>
<p>Arnold Weiss: No, but what have we done to make ourselves criminals? What criminal acts have we performed?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That you might have forgotten. Because your nature is to forget, you cannot immediately remember what you are doing exactly this time yesterday. That is your... You have forgotten, but suppose you, without any knowledge, you do something criminal. So you must be punished. You may not know. You cannot say in the court that "I did not know by committing this act I'll be punished." So you know or not know. You have done it; you must be punished. You may not know what you have done, but that does not mean you can avoid punishment.</p>
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