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So we want to be cheated. That is . . . cheating process is one of the item of conditional life. There are four defects of conditional life. One defect is that we commit mistake, and another defect is that we accept something which is not that.
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[[Vanisource:681202 - Lecture BG 07.01 - Los Angeles|681202 - Lecture BG 07.01 - Los Angeles]]
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So rules and regulation later on. First of all, you try to hear and chant. Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.17|SB 1.2.17]]). Puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ . Anyone who hears Hare Kṛṣṇa, he becomes pious simply by hearing. He becomes purified. So at a stage, he will accept. But people think that "What is this Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting?" You see? If you give them some bluff, kuṇḍalinī-yoga and all these humbugs, they'll be very much pleased. You see? So they want to be cheated. And some cheaters come, "Yes, you take this mantra, give me thirty-five dollars, and within six months you'll become God, you'll have four hands." (laughter)

So we want to be cheated. That is . . . cheating process is one of the item of conditional life. There are four defects of conditional life. One defect is that we commit mistake, and another defect is that we accept something which is not that. Just like commit mistake, that is not to be very difficult to understand. Every one of us know how we commit mistake, blunder. Even great men, they also commit blunder, you see. Just like there are so many instances amongst the politician, a little mistake or a blunder, great blunder . . . so mistake, "To err is human," mistake is there.

Similarly, accepting something as fact which is not fact. How it is? Just like everyone in the conditioned life, they think that, "This body is my self." But I'm not this. I'm not this body. So this is called illusion, pramāda. The best example is to accept a rope as a snake. Suppose in the darkness there is a rope like this, and you are . . . "Oh, here is a snake." This is the best example of illusion—accepting something which is not that. So this defect is there in conditioned life. And to make error and mistake, that defect is there.
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