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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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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="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">That is sinful. As soon as you irresponsible, you are sinful. (break) ...soon as you forget the simple truth that you are servant of God, you are irresponsible. Now your suffering begins. (break) ...kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha hañā bhoga vāñchā kare, nikaṭa-stha māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare (Prema-vivarta). Just like as citizen of your state, you have to abide by the laws of the state. As soon as you disobey, you are irresponsible. That's all. You suffer. Good citizen means who abides by the laws of the state. And as soon as you break it, immediately you are irresponsible and you must be punished.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 9, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 9, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-śauri: They put that warning there so that no one can sue the city authorities if someone is killed if the cliff falls apart.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore not many people come here. (break) ...animal kingdom, by nature's arrangement, the couple, one male and one female, is fixed up, fixed up, this one female, one male. But amongst the monkeys, dogs and jackals, there is no fixed up.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Anything that comes along.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore in the human society, a man and woman not fixed up, they are monkeys, jackals and dogs. By marriage it is fixed up, but if they do not fix up, they are compared with the jackals, dogs and monkeys.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Hogs as well?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm? Hogs, also like.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: From the material point of view people cannot see the purpose of accepting responsibility.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not follow. What is this?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Well, from the spiritual point of view, we know that if we're not responsible, then we have to suffer great consequences according to our actions. From the material point of view, though, people can live an irresponsible life, and they have some earnings. They feel that they can enjoy. What is the need for morality?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then what is a responsible life? Hmm?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Well, their whole plan is to avoid responsibility.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is sinful. As soon as you irresponsible, you are sinful. (break) ...soon as you forget the simple truth that you are servant of God, you are irresponsible. Now your suffering begins. (break) ...kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha hañā bhoga vāñchā kare, nikaṭa-stha māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare (Prema-vivarta). Just like as citizen of your state, you have to abide by the laws of the state. As soon as you disobey, you are irresponsible. That's all. You suffer. Good citizen means who abides by the laws of the state. And as soon as you break it, immediately you are irresponsible and you must be punished.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Practically, though, without God consciousness, isn't it that people see that whether they are moral or not moral, they still suffer?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. This material world is meant for suffering. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15|BG 8.15]]). That is the description in the Bhagavad-gītā. This is a place for suffering. And that is also temporary. You cannot make adjustment: "Never mind, it is suffering; I shall remain here." No, that also will not be allowed. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15|BG 8.15]]).</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: In the marriage ceremonies that they have, they make vow before God that "Until death do us part, we will not separate," but so many divorces are there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is suffering.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: If a man can have an affair with many different women, he's considered fortunate. It is his success.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: He's on the front page of all the magazines.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: "Bachelor daddy."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Therefore they want to become gopīs. That is the tendency, sahajiyā.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Like transcendental hippie-life.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (laughs) Yes.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No responsibility.</p>
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