Prabhupāda: The same example: In dream I am not attacked by the tiger, but I am thinking, "Oh, tiger is there." It is a simply dreaming condition.
Trivikrama: But so many Vaiṣṇavas are . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: So as soon as you understand that, "This is not . . . I am not in contact with tiger. It is all a dream," then you are delivered. Similarly, as soon as you understand, "All this material condition of life we are simply dreaming; I am actually servant of Kṛṣṇa," then you are liberated. That is Kṛṣṇa conscious. If you keep in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that "I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa," then you are liberated.
Sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyaya kalpate (BG 14.26), Kṛṣṇa says. Immediately brahma-bhūtaḥ. Brahmā-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati (BG 18.54). He has no more lamentation, no more hankering. Samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu: he can see everyone on equal vision. Because he knows, "Here is also another living entity. He is not a Chinaman. He is a part and parcel of God. He is not a Christian. He is not a Hindu. He is simply thinking like that." So give him Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is real benefit, to bring him to the original position. Yes?
Cintāmaṇi: If, when we realize Kṛṣṇa, then we have no more desires, then how can we desire . . .
Prabhupāda: You create desire. If you simply keep this contact with Kṛṣṇa, then there is no more any other desire than to serve Kṛṣṇa. That's all.
Trivikrama: This feeling that we have that we are fallen, that we are very fallen . . .
Prabhupāda: That is also illusion. That is also illusion. You are fallen means you have got some certain desires except service of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the conclusion is that if you keep yourself tightly in Kṛṣṇa's service, there is no question of falling down or there is no question of māyā. You see?
Devotee: Even at that state, still the body is affected by the modes of nature. We are experiencing desires.
Prabhupāda: You are not experiencing; your body is experiencing. You are feeling cold due to this body. You are not feeling cold. You are so . . . you are not feeling cold.
Devotee: But I think I am feeling cold.
Prabhupāda: You are thinking—that is illusion. That is illusion.
Devotee: To rise above that.
Prabhupāda: Yes. But not artificially, but this is the fact. You have to gradually rise to that platform. The fact is this. Just like when you are feverish, actually you are healthy, but it has come. So in the feverish condition you are thinking, "I am now feverish." But this feverish will not . . . condition will not stay. You will come to the healthy stage. Therefore don't be disturbed with the feverish condition. Go on with your duty. Don't misidentify, "Now I have become feverish. Everything is finished." No. That is external. It has come, it will go.
That is given in the Bhagavad-gītā: mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ (BG 2.14). The . . . just like seasonal changes. Sometimes it is very hot, sometimes very cold, sometimes warm. So these are coming and going. So if there is some feeling of pain and pleasure, simply just tolerate it, but don't be absorbed in that. That's all. Therefore titikṣava. The first symptoms of a saintly person is titikṣava, tolerant. Tolerant.