View source for I want something; that is my necessity. And it will come by chance? Or I have to endeavor for it, and then I get it?

<div id="compilation">
<div id="facts">
{{terms|"I want something; that is my necessity. And it will come by chance"|"Or I have to endeavor for it, and then I get it"}}
{{notes|}}
{{compiler|Visnu Murti}}
{{complete|ALL}}
{{first|15Nov10}}
{{last|15Nov10}}
{{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=0|Con=1|Let=0}}
{{total|1}}
{{toc right}}
[[Category:I Want (Prabhupada)]]
[[Category:Something]]
[[Category:That Is]]
[[Category:My (Prabhupada)]]
[[Category:Necessity]]
[[Category:will]]
[[Category:Come]]
[[Category:Chance]]
[[Category:Questions Posed by Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:I Have To (Prabhupada)]]
[[Category:Endeavor]]
[[Category:I Get (Prabhupada)]]
[[Category:Prabhupada and Preaching]]
</div>
<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
</div>
<div id="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
</div>
<div id="RoomConversationApril11972Sydney_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="11" link="Room Conversation -- April 1, 1972, Sydney" link_text="Room Conversation -- April 1, 1972, Sydney">
<div class="heading">So it can be adjusted with the meanings of chance and necessity. I want something; that is my necessity. And it will come by chance? Or I have to endeavor for it, and then I get it? Shall I depend on chance? I have a necessity for something. So should I wait for the chance?
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 1, 1972, Sydney|Room Conversation -- April 1, 1972, Sydney]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: "Chance." It's a noun and adjective. "1. The way things fall out. Fortune, undesigned occurrence, opportunity, possibility, probability. Especially in plural, as 'the chances are against him.' Absence of design or discoverable cause. Course of events regarded as a power, fate. 'By chance': as it falls or fell out; without design. 'On the chance': in view of the possibility. 'Take one's chance': let things go as they may. Consent to take what comes."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So it can be adjusted with the meanings of chance and necessity. I want something; that is my necessity. And it will come by chance? Or I have to endeavor for it, and then I get it? Shall I depend on chance? I have a necessity for something. So should I wait for the chance?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: We've always been taught, "No. You must work very hard toward..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So where is the waiting for chance? There is plan. If I have to work, to get the thing, then it is plan.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: If they follow their philosophy to the conclusion, they would have to be completely dependent, if they followed the philosophy to the conclusion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If the chance comes as soon as the necessity is there, then we have to admit immediately God.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Yes. Oh.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because in the Bhagavad-gītā we hear, mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanam that God is in everyone's heart as Supersoul. Now, I am thinking of getting something. So God knows immediately that "He wants to have this," so He gives me the necessary thing which appears to me as chance, without knowing God. The things are supplied by God because He is giving me all facilities to enjoy this material world to my heart's content by supplying all the ingredients. That is the material condition. So these foolish persons are taking as chance, but it is not chance. God is omnipotent. As soon as He understands that I want this, He gives me some facility so that I get it. So it is not chance. It is by arrangement of superior authority. But because they are atheists, they have no sense of God consciousness, they are taking as chance, that necessity creates that chance; automatically it is coming. Not automatically. Chance does not mean automatically. I cannot see something, but all of a sudden falls... Just like I am hungry, I want some food. So Kṛṣṇa knows it that you want some... Some way or other, the food comes to me. So it is the arrangement of Kṛṣṇa, but I see it is chance: "I was hungry and by chance the food has come." That is my less intelligence. It is not chance; it is plain. Otherwise you cannot adjust the meaning of chance in that way, that as soon as there is necessity, immediately the opportune chance comes before us.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>