Prabhupāda: Suppose a father creates some children. So the purpose is that he wants to enjoy family life. This is the purpose of creation. But the father wants that each and every one of his children become nicely educated, obedient, but if the child, the boy, is not nicely . . . properly taking the instruction of the father and spoils himself, and he is in suffering, so is that the fault of the father or the child? Whose fault it is?
Guest (3): If he reads everything, if he is . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, father gave, directs everything, but if the child does not want to follow the father's instruction and he suffers, then whose fault it is? The child's fault or the father's fault?
Guest (3): Of course, it's the child's fault.
Prabhupāda: That's it. So you are child of God. You do not follow the instruction of God; therefore you are suffering.
Guest (3): But being a child, Your Divine Grace, you may not know everything, being a child.
Prabhupāda: But still, still, he may not everything, but when he's grown up, he must know everything. Just like all these living entities—there are 8,400,000 species of living entities—they are all children of God. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya
- sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ
- tāsāṁ mahad yonir brahma
- ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā
- (BG 14.4)
"I am the seed-giving father of all living entities." So there are 8,400,000 species of living entities. Just like the . . . there are 2,000,000 species of living entities within the water, jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati (Padma Purāṇa). In this way the living entities are growing consciousness. Actually, when he comes in the human form of body, then he is his full consciousness. At that time—that is our subject matter—that time he should know why he is suffering, what is the cause. So similarly, when he finds that he is suffering on account of his being disobedient to the father, and he rectifies himself, he becomes happy.